[Porterville]

Meanwhile it snows in Bahgdad....

[Sacajaweau]

I live just outside of Rochester, New York. I have an old book (circa 1890) showing the temp averages for the ten years previous. It’s all in HOW you do the stats.

[CTSeditor]

I dunno. Parts of New York have gotten plenty of snow this winter season so far. More coming within a day or so.

[cripplecreek]

I’m enjoying the heck out of our warm winter here in Michigan. They were out on the lake ice fishing last week and now the ice is gone and a guy was out there fishing from a boat today.

Wish I could count on this globull warming thing to pan out but I doubt its going to happen.

[mysterio]

Indiana’s winters have been a lot warmer overall. But I think it’s a jet stream thing.

[AmericaUnited]

Lizzy phone home. Concord, NH just set a 100 year record for snowfall in December.

[Kickass Conservative]

Bush has been President since 1965? How’d I miss that?

Bush Derangement Syndrome, incurable since January 2001.

[NonValueAdded]

Of course, a blink of the cosmic eye ago (a mere 17000 years, hardly a finger snap’s worth of time), the entire area was under a glacier. Man grabs a tiny slice of that tiny slice in time and declares that to be “normal.”

[rockabyebaby]

Um Lizh oney, I hate to break it to ya girlfriend but we are expecting snow tomorrow nite into Monday, so there will be plenty of this global warming crap to shovel.....

[ChocChipCookie]

Maybe warmer winters might attract people to move to these states that have had declining populations for several years. It might also attract new businesses to the area. There’s always an upside.

[capt. norm]

They're not up to date>

Global cooling is now indicated in the solar cycles and a chill is in the future.

Hey, the sun is like the electric power company to Earth. If the sun decreases what it sends us, there is nothing we can do about it short of adapting.

All the politicians in the world combined cannot come up with enough hot air to get us out of this one.

There was a post earlier today on it but I can't find it. Here is a brief line about it from the National Post:

The science behind the idea of man-made global warming, always theoretical and often speculative, appears set to receive another blow. A report in New Scientist magazine yesterday chronicles the work of a crew of scientists who forecast a new wave of global cooling brought on by a decline in activity in the sun.

The Global Warmists and their newly anointed "Climate Change" sect had better hurry up and scare as many as they can because real life will show them for what they are. Time is their greatest enemy as it will prove them wrong.

Al Gore's name, in history, is going to go right along side Pewee Herman's.

[pacpam]

It your study encompasses 1965-to present, then what are you comparing it to? If this passes for research we are worse off than I thought.

[devere]

All-time record snow in New Hampshire this December.
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7560925

The MSM works tirelessly for Al Gore and his Big Lie. They are utterly shameless!

[paolop]

Okay, I will conduct my own unbiased test. I will test temperatures form February until July here in northwestern CT. If I do see an increase in temperatures, then obviously there is global warming. Just to be totally fair, however, I will take another dataset - a friend of mine in southern Argentina will take another set of measurements form July until January. If in both cases the temperatures show an increase, then it is scientifically proven that there is global warming.

[gidget7]

HA! Could have fooled those of us living here! What we just had was a typical, every year, January thaw. It happens every year.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Up here in the Cleveland area, we had two days this week where the temp was over 65. I enjoyed it!

[camerakid400]

We just had severe thunderstorms/lightning with low 60s here in Connecticut. I love it!!

[Tanniker Smith]

I'm in NYC. We're getting 3-6 inches Monday morning. (Schools'll probably still be open. Bloomie won't close 'em.) Go figger.

If it snowed another 2 feet like in 96, that'd be because of global warming too.

[maine-iac7]

Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells.

Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years

LOL - Dumb as a rock to print this now...

Let me start with posting here the beginning of my column printed this week:

"No longer prepared"

By ....

(Created: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:26 PM EST)

The sun is acting up again, going into one of its cycles of high sunspot activity.

On Jan. 2, the Space and Science Research Center released the following press release:

“Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Fla., announces that it has confirmed the recent Web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long-lasting cold era.

Today, director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.”

This announcement echoes the report last spring from the NOAA Space Environment Center that we are headed into another 11-year cycle of solar storms, peaking in late 2011 or mid-2012. Observations over many years reveal a 22-year cycle of activity in the photosphere, 11 years of low activity and 11 years of high.

Time to batten down the hatches?"

*********************

It seems. measuring the snows here in my little forest haven in Maine, that we are, indeed, slipping into another 11 year cycle of high sun-spot activity and high snows. I bought my house out here 17 years ago and the first few years we had huge amounts of snow - my yard was often buried in 6+ feet, my car and mailbox buried, my roof in grave danger of ending up in my living room.

Those years would have corresponded with the last 6 years or so of the "high-spots" 11-yr cycle.

For the last 10-11 years, the snow falls have been very low. Last winter, for example, the drive way only needed to be plowed 4 times....not once in Dec.

This year, I had to have 8 plows just in Dec.

All this seems to coincide exactly with the above reports from NASA and Space and Science Research Center...and I am not looking forward to the next 10 winters.

I have no place to put all this Global Warming...

My brother finds my car...

Who are we going to believe? The tripe of the Goracle and those who slavishly acquiescence to his nonsense and pseudoscience or the scientists and our own eyes - and aching backs?

(It's the Communist way - When you tell a lie, make it a BIG one, repeat it often and denigrate any naysayers.

"Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years"

Yeah , the past 11 years of low sun-spot activity. How much more Global Warming will have to pile up in our driveways in the next 11-year cycle of HIGH sun-spot activity before the sheeple wake up - and will it be in time?)

If this is an example of "Less snow to shovel..." I am going to crawl into my featherbed, cover my head with my down comforter and set my alarm for July.

[G Larry]

Hmmmm....I guess they missed the current forcast for the big “Nor’easter” headed that way?