January 31st, 2022 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

As I predicted, climate change has been blamed for the recent New England blizzard (e.g. from Bloomberg here). During that storm, Boston tied its 24-hr snowfall record at 23.6 inches.

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Terry Eliasen at CBS Boston wrote: “While we didn’t break any of the big records in Boston, this storm does have a place in the record books:

Second biggest snowstorm in January history in Boston. It was just shy of the Jan. 27, 2015 storm which dropped 24.6 inches. Seventh biggest all-time snowstorm (of any month) in Boston. It was 4.1 inches shy of the 27.6” that fell in February of 2003, the top dog on the list. With 35.9” this month, January 2022 will go in the books tied with January 1978 for the fourth snowiest January on record

Boston now sits at 36.3” for the season, more than a foot above the average snow to date. This winter has been absolutely crazy - 97% of the total snowfall for the entire season has fallen on two days, January 7th and January 29th.

Breaking it down even further, you could say 97% of our snowfall this season in Boston has fallen in about 15 hours! Incredible!

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Roy resumes:

Yet, as recently as January 6, we were told by USAToday that Boston’s lengthy 316-day streak *without* one inch of snowfall as of January 1st was caused by global warming.

So, which is it? Global warming causes less snow, or more snow?

When science produces contradictory claims, is it really science?

Roy continues: DrRoySpencer.com has been demonetized by Google for “unreliable and harmful claims”. This means I can no longer generate revenue to support the website using the Google Adsense program.

From a monetary standpoint, it’s not a big deal because what I make off of Google ads is in the noise level of my family’s monthly budget. It barely made more than I pay in hosting fees and an (increasingly expensive) comment spam screener.

I’ve been getting Google warnings for a couple months now about “policy violations”, but nowhere was it listed what pages were in violation, and what those violations were. There are Adsense rules about ad placement on the page (e.g. a drop-down menu cannot overlay an ad), so I was assuming it was something like that, but I had no idea where to start looking with hundreds of web pages to sift through. It wasn’t until the ads were demonetized that Google offered links to the pages in question and what the reason was.

Of course, I should have figured out it was related to Google’s new policy about misleading content; a few months ago Google announced they would be demonetizing climate skeptic websites.