[QT3.14]

Paging Algore! Please pick-up the Green phone.

[samtheman]

I guess you just don’t understand how it works.

Man-made Global Warming causes ALL changes in “climate”, including massive, 10,000-year-long periods of advancing ice-sheets across entire continents.

[bigbob]

Cool, would make for great skiing!

[cripplecreek]

Meanwhile here in southern Michigan we saw our first snow right around Halloween, right on time. It was kind of a rain snow mix for just a few minutes on the 29th but my prediction was accurate enough.

We topped out at 61 degrees today and its supposed to be warmer tomorrow.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Good news for the polar bears!

[qam1]

Well, duh!!! Global warming causes the climate to change to global cooling which causes Ice ages.

Get with the program you anti-science Luddite

[PMAS]

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[sphinx]

I survived the last Next Ice Age in the mid-1970’s and with luck I’ll survive this one. Should’ve saved the old Time Mag covers announcing the coming ice age for fuel. Guess the more recent Time Mag covers announcing global warming will have to do.

[Jack of all Trades]

As has already been pointed out, the theory of global warming encompasses all possible outcomes. Please try to keep up. It’s still your fault.

[arderkrag]

Global Warming keeps coming back from the dead. It has surpassed zombie status, and is obviously a LICH.

Rejuvenation (Su)

When a lich is destroyed, its phylactery (which is generally hidden by the lich in a safe place far from where it chooses to dwell) immediately begins to rebuild the undead spellcaster's body nearby. This process takes 1d10 days—if the body is destroyed before that time passes, the phylactery merely starts the process anew. After this time passes, the lich wakens fully healed (albeit without any gear it left behind on its old body), usually with a burning need for revenge against those who previously destroyed it.

See? Kill it, it comes back.

[GladesGuru]

We must burn more carbon fuel! Invade all oil fields!

Gasoline and diesel must be 99 cents a gallon again!

It’s for the future of the WORLD ! ! ! !

[muir_redwoods]

I got out early the morning after the snowfall here in Connecticut and there was 8-9” of heavy wet snow in the driveway. The temps were normal so it began to melt but I remrmber only one previous October snow fall here in the last fifty years and that was a inch or so.

[hflynn]

Hey Felix!!!! You are one cool cat.

[GonzoGOP]

To be honest the only way snow on the ground in October indicates an ice age is if it fell in March. It doesn't matter how much snow falls, provided it melts every summer. As long as the mountain tops melt clear before the first snow, it doesn't matter how big that fall is, you won't have an ice age.

That being said this storm sure makes Al Gore look like a doof. He predicted that our children would never see snow.

Of course that may be true for many on this board, if the Northern states keep going more and more liberal, we might all end up moving to Texas. And Al's grand kids won't see snow as he moved to a beach front home in California.

[kidd]

This is how ice ages begin

I think the title is a little over-reaching.

What made THIS snowstorm so remarkable is that the leaves are still on the trees when the snowstorm occured. The snow stuck to the leaves. The weight of the snow-encrusted leaves caused large branches to break. The local utilities were somewhat negligent in their tree-trimming duties and many of these branches fell on power lines.

I grew up in Minnesota. Probably half of my Halloweens were done in several inches of snow. The difference between then and now is that the Minnesota trees were bare before any snow fell.

And the reason that the leaves were still on the trees in the northeast is because we had an unusually warm and wet August/September. Which is the opposite of an impending ice age.

[djf]

My local power company send me the bill every month.

As part of the bill, it graphs out how much did I use this month, how much did I use the same month but one year ago, what the average daily temps were, and what the average daily temps were last year.

It was a cooler-than-normal year here in the Seattle area.

And NOT just a little bit!
For about four of the months earlier this year, March, Apr, May, I forget exactly, but the average temps weren’t like 2 or 3 degrees less than average - THEY WERE 8 DEGREES LESS THAN AVERAGE!

That’s like the weather on Ganymede or something!!!

[DManA]

This is the 20th anniversary of the Great Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Dropped three feet of snow on most of Mn and Western Ws. After three days I literally had to shovel a tunnel to get into the office.

A few years later went trick or treating with my kids in shorts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Halloween_blizzard

Not wise to extrapolate to far into the future based on one event.