Posted on 01/01/2009 8:29:12 AM PST by PJ-Comix
As soon as your humble correspondent flipped on the TV set this New Year morning, he heard an MSNBC report about record levels of snowfall that just hit the Pacific Northwest. Checking around the web, it turns out that other parts of the country were also hit with record levels of snowfall. Here are a few of the reports starting with this one in the Green Bay Press Gazette (emphasis mine):
Green Bay ended the month with 45.6 inches of snowfall, the most of any December on record.
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Bingo. “Global warming” has pretty much been retired in favor of “climate change”. Only those behind the curve are still using the old term. “Climate change” covers anything and everything. A little cooler, a little warmer, more snow, less snow, rain, dry weather, even earthquakes. Anything. If the weather is exquisitely ideal, well that’s a change and is covered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/us/22snow.html
In my 50 years we have only had 2 “white Christmas's” in the Seattle area. This storm began the first day of my Christmas vacation December 19th and continued nearly everyday through the day after Christmas when it began to warm up and change over to rain. At my house we had a total of 11 inches on top of a 1/2 inch of solid ice.
And the mountains are getting buried by 2 or 3 feet a day. The mountains for the last several years have been seeing record snow packs. I keep saying our next bad year will be 2010 the year of the Winter Olympics just up the freeway from here. Murphy's law.
All Wash. mountain passes closed by heavy snow
The other 11 months, all averaged below normal.
92% of the months in 2008 were below normal, a trend?
No sunspots in 3 weeks. If this keeps up for a few more months, it suggests that we are entering an Ice Age (we’re supposed to be exiting the solar minimum for the last few months, but no spots. No sunspots means the energy output is less, thus the cooler temperatures this past year). No good for some people, because it suggests a long period of less food production in a poor economic times. Being in the military, I feel like an observer and not a participant of all this (plus I’m in Germany). No matter how bad it gets, I’ll always have a job.
Snowfall has little to do with GW. It is -38 here now. That is temperature and is related to GW.
Fortunately, whatever form it takes, it's always curable by living like cavemen and paying higher taxes! Whew! ;-)
Here in east central Illinois our Christmas ice has melted and the temperatures have been near if not slightly above average. I was afraid the ice would last a month this time of year. I suspect we will see some of your cold in a while, but hopefully moderated some.
http://www.encyclomedia.com/video-drew_carey_comedian.html
I live in Wasilla and it was -25 when I went to bed last night. I am not an old timer but that is the coldest temp since I have lived here. When can an Alaskan finally get some of that global warming algore has promised? I also have more snow piles from clearing my drive than I have ever had by the end of the season. This is going to be a long cold winter.
Are you trying to disrupt consensus with facts again? algore will not be pleased.
bttt
Perhaps, but the "global warming" theory was the result of and supported by the "computer models" of the Earth's climate and it's interaction with various "greenhouse" gasses. There is no connection between those fatally flawed computerized guessing games and the climate we have been enjoying for the last eight years or more.
"Climate change" as a theory doesn't even get the skinny fig leaf of a computer model to hide behind. It is a theory, dreamt up out of whole cloth by the unscrupulous, set before the credulous who are expected to believe in it as an article of faith. It is the antithesis of the scientific method as there has been no effort to base the theory on anything except "because I said so". It's past time to start asking "why" repeatedly and loudly, demand they support their thesis with documented predictions. That is the gold standard of the scientific method not regurgitated group-think.
Regards,
GtG
You're being too generous by calling "Climate Change" a theory. "Climate Change" is nothing more than an empty phrase. To qualify as a theory, it must at least provide some type of testable prediction and a mechanism by which predictions of the theory can be derived.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=315533893763712
We had three inches of snow last night in NW Washington, just when the previous fifteen inches, left over from Christmas was beginning to disappear.
I love these so called records. I can guarantee that the London area had a colder New Years Eve during the last ice age and probably much more recently too.
Here is the current January 2009 Pacific Northwest snow depth.
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