FALSE: This claim about climate change’s effect on temperature and snow is not true

This post on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that global temperatures have been cooling since 2006 and snowfall has been increasing since the 1960s is FALSE.

The post adds numerous falsities about climate change. PesaCheck has previously shown how global warming leads to rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and the dangers posed by melting ice.

The United Nations has not switched from global warming to climate change since its first reports distinguished between the two and how they are linked.

United States President Donald Trump cannot end climate change because not all mitigation measures have been reached. In fact, Trump has revoked many of the US’ climate policies and even if all measures were implemented, it would take many years for climate change and global warming to slow, never mind end, as the post claims.

But has global temperatures fallen and snowfall increased? No, this is also false.

The poster claims their data originated from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The NOAA data directly contradicts this. It found 2024 to have “the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA’s 1850–2024 climate record”. Below, NOAA data from 2006 to 2025 shows an increase.

The graph in the claim selectively uses data to make it appear as if there has been no temperature increase. The claim only uses NOAA data from January 2016 to December 2022. Below is what the NOAA’s data looks like if the data is taken up to present.

The NOAA’s findings were supported by other scientific and meteorological organisations, including the European Union’s Copernicus programme, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Kingdom’s Met Office, and Berkeley Earth.

Data from the WMO shows how these global datasets are closely aligned and all show a clear and dramatic increase from the 1960s onward.

The claim refers specifically to snow extent in the Northern Hemisphere for the assertion that snowfall has increased since the 1960s. This is also not true.

In the US, total snowfall has “decreased in most parts of the country” since 1930. Snow cover has decreased by 2,083 square miles per year from 1972 to 2023. The amount of snow on the ground in early spring has decreased at 81 per cent of measured sites from 1955–2024, declining by 18 per cent overall.

In the Northern Hemisphere as a whole, both snow cover and the number of days per year with snow cover have declined across most of the region. PesaCheck has previously shown how the Northern Hemisphere is warming faster than the Southern Hemisphere.

Another analysis found that about two-thirds of more than 2,000 United States locations now get less snow than they did in the 1970s.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also found that anthropogenic global warming “very likely contributed to decreased Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover and surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet”.

PesaCheck has shown previously how global warming is melting ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice.

In addition, numerous peer-reviewed studies (here, here, here, and here) have described how snow in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased in step with global warming.

PesaCheck has examined a post claiming that global temperatures have been cooling since 2006 and snowfall has been increasing since the 1960s and finds it to be FALSE.