Research says big snow storms not inconsistent with — and may be ampliflied by — a warming planet

Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows
A Warming World Can Still See Severe Storms

That's the headline on the news release from the Earth Institute at Columbia University for a new GRL study, "Northern Hemisphere winter snow anomalies: ENSO, NAO

and the winter of 2009/10″ (PDF here).

The study itself slams the "deniers" for trying to spin the storms as inconsistent with human-caused global warming:

The wintry winter has encouraged deniers of global warming, and those...