In response to the current spell of frigid weather, the new services have pulled out the usual graphics intended to make us shiver even when we are snug inside our warm homes:

But the most original and most chilling frigid-weather graphic that I have seen comes from the Takoma Park Patch in Maryland:

To put the frigid weather in perspective, I was going to include some photos of the recent blizzard and subsequent flooding in Buffalo, but I came across these photos of the historic 1977 blizzard in Buffalo:

Photos such as these should help us to view the current frigid weather from some less immediate and more reasonable perspective.

But, at the other extreme, the Far-Right media source Newsmax is distributing the following item, which is clearly intended to be anything but reassuring:

“This winter with record-breaking, freezing weather hitting states like Ohio, you may be wondering what happened to global warming!

“Well, the facts speak for themselves—the winters in northern states are actually getting colder.

“Now a powerful new book—Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30Year Cold Spell, by former NASA expert and leading climatologist John Casey—reveals the truth.

“The Earth is not warming, but is actually rapidly cooling!

“Casey argues in Dark Winter that the planet faces a 30-year period of cold weather as the sun moves into a solar minimum.

“Please read his important information below and the implications for people living in northern states like yours, or Go Here Now to secure your copy of Dark Winter.”

So, this is what we can expect: when climate change becomes undeniable, the science-deniers are going to shift to pseudo-science that will provide convenient, alternative explanations for climate change.