And in the “Global Warming” Department . . . .
Just remember, folks: it’s mankind’s fault, and it’s due to global warming!
Yeah, right.
Edited to add: FWIW, there’s a largish snowstorm hitting the USA today and tomorrow. It’s expected to drop up to a foot of snow across an area extending from Saint Louis to Philadelphia.
Last time I checked, the calendar says it’s freaking March.
Category: Global Warming
I’m just going to leave this right here.
Holy cow! I meant to post the link. We can post videos now?
Er, the science is settled?
Yeah, sure it is!
(Any real scientist, and much of the rest of the planet, knows better.)
Yup. Consensus is NOT science.
I would not phrase it as the “science is settled.” True science is about probabilities, the differences between a Hypothesis, a Theory, and a Law, and the data that support, do not support, or appear to have no effect on them, either way.
In the ’70’s, the big Eco-boogieman was, the Global Cooling Hypothesis. After that it was the Hole in the Ozone. Now it’s Global Warming.
Science is about looking at the what the data suggest, and posing a Hypothesis to test your understanding of the data. Upon finding anything that contradicts your Hypothesis, you must reject your Hypothesis as invalid and either pose a new one or abandon that line of inquiry as fruitless.
In all three of the aforementioned “eco-issues,” the scientific inquiry was superficial, at best. What appears to have happened is a diligent search for data supporting an idea. The exact OPPOSITE of what a real scientist would do.
Why would “scientists” prostitute themselves in such a manner? Because, prostitute themselves, they did.
I suspect that the simple answer is : money.
For myself, whenever one of these “issues” arises, the first question I ask myself is : Who benefits?
WRT Global Warming, the data strongly suggest that the Solar Cycle, by orders of magnitude, is the primary cause of global temperature variations.
Our CO2 release from fossil fuels is as about as relevant as a fart causing a hurricane, wrt Global Warming.
“I suspect that the simple answer is : money.”
And I suspect the more complex answer is “Power”, as in Big Gubbment Socialist/Communist/totalitarian/authoritarian Power.
Despite all the doom-and-gloom “Save the Earth”, that’s for the suckers and “useful idiots”.
The Earth will continue to heal itself and spin serenely in space, no matter how much we poison it, irradiate it, or otherwise pollute it. We may even kill ourselves off as a species. Another species will adapt and take our place.
But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be the best stewards of this home, this Big Blue Marble, that we know how, given the SCIENCE (not panicked wishful thinking going on too often today) and technology we have today.
Enough soapbox and rant.
8-12 inches of global warming expected to fall on my roof tonight and tomorrow. Sucks.
It’s shitting a bunchh of the ol’ global warming on my compound right now… (0718 03/03/14)
Here’s a conversation between a Prius and a Maserati for you:
Prius: I get 60 miles to the gallon. What do you get?
Maserati: Laid.
+1!
My bumpersticker reads:
“YOURS CAN GO FAST. MINE CAN GO ANYWHERE.
4 X 4”
I said it was snowing yesterday. Does no one in science pay any attention?
It’s March, for pete’s sake! The birds are increasing in numbers at my feeding station. They’re going to starve to death because they’re coming back on schedule – they go by the angle of the sun – and there is NO FOOD for them to eat unless I put it out there.
Meanwhile, the the numbnuts in climate science lay it all to global warming instead of admitting that they don’t really understand any of it.
Nice to see my tax dollars at work.
[stepping on to my soapbox] Ex — re: your tax dollars — do you want them to try to understand? I think that you do. Do they understand exactly how the weather works? Hell no! In 1910, science estimates that there were 740 gigatonnes on CO2 in the atmosphere. In 1990 science estimates that there were 780 gigatonnes. At this time we are adding co2 at the rate of about 10 gigatonnes per year. Just a bunch of numbers and estimates right? Suppose that I observe a large comet in the outer reaches of the solar system that is going to come close to earth. I cannot see it very well and I cannot predict its exact trajectory — after all, there are 5 large planets each with their own gravitational fields — but it will be close and it looks like a planet killer. Do you want to be warned or not? I think that is where the science is now. They know that high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and high temperatures go together. They know that we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere and that nature is not absorbing it. They are working to understand how nature absorbs CO2 and what happens to clouds when the CO2 levels go up — nobody knows. They have a bunch of models and they mostly point in one direction. So, do you want them to tell you or just shut up and tell your grandkids, “oh sorry, we knew this was coming but we didn’t have exact predictions so we didn’t want to say anything”. There is another problem. In the classic model of science, someone does an experiment, thinks that he discovered something, then publishes a theory. All his friends laugh and make fun of him for saying something so foolish, then go to their labs and repeat his experiment to prove that he is full of crap. (I grew up in this world, my dad’s friends made fun of him for some of the stuff that he published.) If he is right then he discovered something. maybe… Read more »
In the 1970’s, scientists were warning of the coming Ice Age and that we’d be starving because all the fields would be frozen tundra.
Humans are NOT responsible for the alleged increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is absolute folly to think that our puny species can in any way influence the Earth’s climate.
The Earth warms up naturally, with the help of the Sun. It cools as the sun contracts slightly. We are only now coming out of the last great Ice Age and returning to the temperatures that are closer to what they should be.
AW1 Tim the sun is not contracting. It has been expanding at an ever-so-slight rate since its creation
Richard, did you know that when you boil water in a saucepan on the stove, the bubbles begin to bump into each other and eventually, one bubble starts absorbing all the little bubbles? And they all rotate, too. So that’s one way to discover how little galaxies become big galaxies, right?
I’m snarking here,if you didn’t get that.
And they’re so smart that they didn’t see, detect or predict that piece of an asteroid that flew over Russia or Siberia or some place last year and shattered thousands of windows and set off car alarms.
And while I’m at it, I keep track of the daily weather. July 26 last year, the overnight temperature was 51F in my area (northern Illinois), the coolest late July temps in 9 years. August was also quite cool. I’m hoping for another one.
The only difference between a climate scientist and a psychiatrist is the location of their offices.
Ex-PH2…that rock that detonated over Russia last year was only about as long as a school bus and coming at us from near the direction of the sun…makes it really difficult to see anything coming from that direction. Is it really any wonder that it wasn’t seen beforehand? What if it had been? What could anyone have done about it? Let’s assume that astronomers did find it and knew it was going to hit the earth. What exactly would they have done, short of evacuating the estimated impact are, knowing that it wasn’t a planet killer?
“area”
I have pictures of my brother digging through 2.5 feet of snow in the yard in my hometown in central Illinois, in 1967.
We had hot, humid summers, cold, nasty winters, thunderstorms that would scare the hair off a cat, and the seasons just came and went. My grandfather’s 1887 journal mentions a blizzard. That was a famous one – a whiteout in the Great Plains that moved eastward and literally killed people in the streets of New York City, because no one warned them it was on its way.
It’s just weather, it goes in cycles and we can’t do anything about it except adjust to it.
Last week, California was complaining about no rain. Now, California is complaining about rain.
What goes around, comes around.
Yeah, here in San Diego we went from cold in December, to Indian summer for the next 2 1/2 months, to “two cows pissing on a flat rock” rain this weekend. We’re still having a year without a winter temperature-wise, as it’s only in the 50s, with none of the usual snow in our local mountains (yes, it does snow here, just not at the beach).
People are saying how lucky we are to have such warm weather when the rest of the country is frozen solid. My reply is that even with this bigass storm, we’re still behind on rain, and thus next fire season is really going to suck.
But this has happened before, and it will happen again (now where have I heard that before?). Our last few winters were pretty damn cold (by SoCal standards), so it stands to reason that we were due.
Richard, it is my experience that this venue is not the one to step up on soapboxes like you did. I typically don’t even bother interjecting myself into threads like this because I know I’m not going to change anyone’s mind. I stick to the things that I do have in common with the majority of the people who come here…veterans issues, outing posers, and gun rights
Every time I hear “climate change,” I think of what my Grandpa would say right now: “Well no shit it’s changing! It’s the WEATHER, for Christ’s sake! That’s what it DOES!”
Some years are wet, some years are dry, some are hot, some are cold. It’s always been that way, and the averages were fluctuating for eons before the first internal combustion engine fired up. So how exactly are things any different now? Oh, that’s right, they’re not.
But the truth doesn’t line Al Gore’s pockets or sell carbon credits, so it must be denied at every turn.
They (those scared, fraidy hole, liberals who believe everything any asshole “scientist” supported by government grants tells them) were sold a bill of goods that helped support many of their agendas, such as, green power, save the whales harpoon Oprah and Rosie O’Donnell, recycle everything including your turds, cow farts are killing the planet, etc. etc.
Then the whole got traction and like the proverbial snow ball, everything from tsumanis to Katrina were blamed on global warming and the economic policies of the Reagan and Bush Administrations. /sarc/
No one except clear headed and I might add more conservative thinking, feet on the ground, journalists, scientists and others started looking over the shoddy work done by the “global warmists” and said, “bull shit…this is BAD science. Poor modeling, poor database building, too few samples for the results professed, and on and on and on.
By now I can’t imagine the billions our nation has spent and given away on this worthless endeavor. All while veterans and retirees are waiting months for help at the VA, having their benefits cut and threatened.
Sorry, I am on a tear about this so I will just stop now.
Oh, don’t stop. The entire climate theory is based on averaging ice advances and warming periods, to a false average of about 100,000.
The actual time lengths on those warm and cold periods is so erratic that creating an average is not just bad science. It also provides a false model to use for predictions. The predictions never take into account the fact that the weather goes in cycles and creates climate changes.
There are so many hidden factors they fail to take into account that the only people who are reasonably accurate are meteorologists.
Go back and look at the hurricane predictions for this past season. We didn’t even have ONE hurricane and several were predicted. Hurricanes are the byproduct of excessive heat in the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic is TOO cold to produce that kind of activity.
The Pacific, however, had a bumper crop of typhoons and hurricanes because the overall temperature rose, but those numbnuts weren’t paying attention that.
This winter’s cold and snow are the direct result of a pool of warm water several thousand miles in diameter parked off the coast of Alaska. It pushed the jet stream northward and we got Siberia’s weather this winter.
NOW we are talking!! All the money thrown away by government who wishes to exert more control over our lives. Whoever said follow the money earlier was absolutely correct. Al Gore has made mad money on trying to scare people with his gloom and doom bullshit. And he aint the only one.
As a Chicago-suburb resident, I am going to say that this is getting ridiculous, even for Illinois. It’s never been this cold and it’s never snowed this much *ever*. I have seen all kinds of crazy weather in this place, and I have to say that I expect it to be snowing when I graduate from High School in June.
Farflung, I started living in Chicago in 1976, one of the colder winters I’ve ever been through. Watch Tom Skilling on WGN when he does the weather reports. He gives you all the statistics on this kind of thing.
This is the 3rd coldest winter on record, and the 3rd snowiest since 1978-79, when I moved into the city.
However, there is a good side to this: the prediction is that we may have a cooler than average summer because of the ice cover now in place on Lake Superior. That would be nice. My air conditioning would not be necessary.
Seconded. Didn’t know you were a Chicago resident, PH-2. Always nice to have another Windy Citier around.
I rwemember that winter well – supposedly the coldest on record (at least until 77-78 beat it) according to all the drills at Ft. Leonard Wood.
Here in Houston, one of the warmest cities in the country, we have had five months in a row of below-average temps. I think it goes to prove the deep scientific truth that :wather is unpredictable.”
I’ve been tracking global climate since we received snow showers in Virginia Beach, VA… on April 7, 2007. Normally, we’d be working through our second or third “heat wave” by then. The first half of that year was colder/cooler than normal, with lots of records on the cold/cool side of the house. This past January, we got 8 to 10 inches of snow in my area, with 14 inch snow drifts… a complete anomaly for this area. Our summers have been becoming more mild, with the last summer feeling like an extended spring before we experienced an early fall. This isn’t restricted to local areas either: * Ever since the winter of 2006/07, ski resorts have been opening earlier, and staying open later. * My hometown of Duluth, MN, had highs in the 40s in June… back when I was living there, we were into late spring early summer weather by the time June rolled around. * Minnesota set a record low of 32F and 33F … in August, 2007. * In September, 2011, they received snow showers in the northern part of the state. * Truckers reported heavier levels of snow on Texas highways. * Canals in Europe froze over more than one winter. * As the US was experiencing a mild winter in 2011/12, the Europeans suffered a deep freeze from February to March that made windmills ineffective and that killed over 650 people. Had less people gotten killed during a heatwave, that would’ve been all over our media. * Snow fell in Northern Africa, Israel, Iran, and on the Arabian Peninsula. * People recently reported snow flurries in the northern mountains of Thailand. * Cold snaps had killed 10s of thousands of livestock in Vietnam… * It snowed in Baghdad, Iraq. * Afghanistan received more snow than what the locals were used to… over 100,000 livestock were lost to the blizzard that dropped those snows. * Recently, in the US Midwest, cattle froze in place, after struggling in mud. The newspaper description described them as being “entombed” in ice… very similar to the perfectly preserved frozen mammoth… Read more »
You left out the two winters in Peru in the Atacama region, where snow fell.
July 2012, three feet of snow fell, blocking roads and preventing people from getting out to get help. Try wading through 3 feet of snow. It is cement.
July 2013, another snowfall, eighteen inches, blocked the roads and kept supply trucks from getting there to help people.
Snow in the Atacama Desert had not fallen in living memory before 2012.
1/10/2013 – Snow fell in Jerusalem, and it was the stormiest winter in decades in the Middle East. Meanwhile, there were raging wildfires and haboobs (dust storms) in Australia and Tasmania.
You also left out the event where they had to plow the road going into Glacier National Park, because there was snow/ice cover there that didn’t melt like what normally happened each year… and it threatened to delay the normal visiting period… or the time one of our ski slopes opened in July because the there was enough ice to ski during that time… in North America…
There are a lot more events than what we could put in the response sections of this blog… unfortunately, events that the media doesn’t show as much enthusiasm on reporting as they do a heat wave or drought event.
Some of these journalists shoot themselves in the foot… talking about how drought caused lake water loss have uncovered towns and graveyards on the now dry lake bed…
Hmmm… maybe that place was dry enough to build a settlement before the waters came flooding back… something else other than human industrial emissions have to be at play…
There was one winter so cold that the Tiber froze over, during the age of Rome’s domination of the known world.
And later on, toward the actual ‘end’ of the Empire, the Rhine froze. While the depleted Roman Army stood on one side and hordes of starving Gauls (barbarians) on the other and they stared at each other, finally, the desperate Gauls/Celts stampeded across the river, overwhelming the Roman centurions and troops. And that was one of the events that marked the ‘end’ of the Roman Empire… that, and the constant invasions and sackings of the city of Rome by Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and whoever else was out there.
Some of the cold snaps that we’ve had this winter placed an area, of North America, under sub zero readings that came close to matching the area covered by the mega ice sheet extent during the last glaciation.
Some of the cold snaps that we’ve had this winter placed an area, of North America, under sub zero readings that came close to matching the area covered by the mega ice sheet extent during the last glaciation.
Oh, while I’m at it, the price of gas in my area (suburbs, lots of vehicles) went from $3.399 to $3.799 in the blink of an eye.
I guess that cuts out my road trip to Vegas.
Lake Michigan is mostly open now, so the lake effect snow machine has kicked in, again. The last round of higher temps, strong winds and some rain has decreased the amount of ice a lot. This is from about a week ago, http://fox17online.com/2014/02/22/warmer-temps-and-wind-decrease-great-lakes-ice-coverage/#axzz2up0corRv
Richard: five words: “Maunder Minimum” and “Little Ice Age”.
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Up North: the graphic above is from today, not a week ago. Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario are the only two of the Great Lakes with any significant amount of open water at this point. And weather over both is forecast to be generally quite cold over the next two weeks.
“Richard: five words: ‘Maunder Minimum’ and ‘Little Ice Age’.” – Hondo
During the Maunder Minimum, we came real close to entering a mega ice age. One of the scientific papers I read indicated that if we enter another Maunder Minimum, our risk of entering mega glaciation goes up. Our orbit has shifted to make that more of a reality than the last time we were in the Maunder Minimum.
If we enter another Dalton, or weaker, minimum, we’ll just see cooling for the remainder of the century.
Another scientific paper, that looked at the influence of the gas planets on the sun, predicted a potential of another warming period starting next century… one that’ll match the Medieval Warming Period.
Looking at the satellite pic, Superior and Erie appear to be the only lakes completely frozen, but that’ll probably change if the weather doesn’t.
http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/32312/28/
That sat photo is 3 weeks out of date. The report Friday was that the Great Lakes are 100% covered and the ice is thicker than usual. The Coast Guard has been doing repeated ice cutting runs to keep the shipping lanes open.
And some of the ice is quite clear, not covered with snow, and may show on a sat photo as water when in fact it is as clear as glare ice on pavement.
You’re right, EX, I didn’t see the date below the pic when I linked the article.
Yes, and some of the ice is so clear, like glare ice, that it looks like calm water and people venture out on it, then have to be rescued.
Papers written in 2009 to 2011 predicted that 2014 would be the start of the new mini ice age.
Piers Corbyn, Astrophysicist, has been accurately predicting long range weather for North America, Europe, and elsewhere. He announced, last spring (2013), that we already entered a mini ice age:
Make sure you stock up on veggie seeds before spring gets here. You can grow radishes and a lot of other things in big pots. I did it. I sent photos to Jonn last summer. Those radishes were the hottest damn radishes I have ever had! I plan to do the big pots again this year.
The winters here in Idaho have been a bit weird. I think the winter of 96-97 was the last really good snow year. The ski mountain in my backyard, Bogus Basin, likes to open on Thanksgiving day if there is enough snow. They were not able to open for the ’12-’13 season until mid-January of ’13.
Global warming? Bullshit. When I was in grade school they were howling about the next Ice Age, as was pointed out above. Somebody else said “it’s weather, it changes”…BINGO!
That’s why they’re going with “climate change” now, since most folks have glommed onto the fact that the temperature change has been flat for 15 years.
The newest buzz-phrase is “extreme weather,” wherein they can claim ANY bad weather is a result of anthropogenic climate change. Never mind that -as ex-PH2 has pointed out- “extreme” weather events have been generally fewer recently.
Casey you forgot. It is also still the fault of the economic policies of the Reagan/Bush Administrations. (Hell… everything else has been.) /sarc/
Casey, those people have been trying to pin climate change on humans going back to when we were hunter-gatherers tanning hides and beading leather with porcupine quills, for the past 25 years and common sense tells you that something like that is ludicrous.
If any of you peeps remember when Mt. Pinatubo erupted, there was no prediction of cooling ahead of the eruption. The particulates get into the upper atmosphere and circulate up there. The global mean temperature dropped by 1 degree Celsius (I think it was one) and stayed there for over a year.
They only pay attention to the things that will increase their grants and funding.
March? Here in Colorado, March is when we get most of our snow. We’ve been in the deep freeze all weekend, it’s currently 9 degrees. In fact, it’s not unusual in some years to see snow towards the end of May on the Front Range and into June in the mountains. We don’t usually plan anything on the high peaks until the beginning of August.
The beauty of it is that it can also be 70 in January. My sophomore year in college had such a warm February that I came home for spring break with a great tan.
The weather is the weather, whether or not. Yesterday it was in the 40s. Today, 29 and light snow, heavy sleet. Tomorrow…59 and windy so it will all melt away. Go figure.
If I could calculate the weather correctly first, I would make myself a gazillionaire in the markets. Then I would hold world governments in the palm of my hand for the info I possessed.
That is until the Men In Black, made me disappear. So maybe I will enjoy the market money I made first before I gloated to the world about it. 😀 Those guys play for keeps.
Well…not OUR guys, they don’t play their marble games on the carpet of the Oval Office, for “keepsies”, they give each others back because Obama would get mad and fire someone if they kept his favorite “blue cat’s eye” or “Elephant Stomps” their own marble. Kerry would lay on the floor stomping and crying if he didn’t get his lucky “steely” back.
And all the while, Putin is playing chess…as mentioned in another thread.
Here in NH, I’m near the Seacoast, and in an average winter we’ll see about 3-4 subzero nights, mostly in January.
So far this winter, we’ve had at least a total of 10, with at least once every month from November through February, and we’re going to drop below zero (again) tomorrow night.
And heating oil is $3.899 a gallon. I filled up (again) last week.
I don’t want to hear any whining out of any of ya!!! All my fellow Minnesnowtans know what I’m talking about (-12 when I got to work this morning on the 3rd of fricken March! Not to mention that it has been in the -8 to -18 range every morning for the last 10 days.).
Last winter, the lowest temp went to -19F, wind chill -25F, and there was no snow. My pipes froze, despite my precautions.
This winter, the lowest temp was -19F, wind chill -22F, but there was snow everywhere and my pipes did not freezer.
My cats won’t stay out of the bathtub now.
http://www.spacearchive.info/2006-02-01-nasa-aqua.jpg
This is a picture of smog produced by China floating across the Yellow Sea to hit Korea. China produces more CO2 in one day than the state of California produces in one year. So, how are we the cause? Hell, for the 2012 Olympics, they had to stop civilian transit in Beijing and install huge turbine-sized fans to keep the air clear!
This is the latest re: the icing up of the Great Lakes. 91% ice cover on Lake Superior, and the ice lets enough sunlight through to allow algae to grow and feed fish.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/deep-freeze/frozen-wonderland-lake-superiors-ice-cover-nears-record-95-percent-n43416
The winter of 1716-1717 produced four snowstorms between December and February that would make this winter pale by comparison, up to 25 FEET of snow at times, burying livestock alive. This is a link to the history of that winter.
http://colonialsense.com/Society-Lifestyle/Signs_of_the_Times/New_England_Weather/1716-1717_Winter.php
From the description, it almost sounds like a nor’easter that sat on the eastern seaboard and just kept producing squall after squall, maybe held in place by a blocking high up near Greenland. This was before the start of the Industrial Revolution, so blame can’t be place on carbon pollution, can it? And New England was a lot more sparsely settled than it is today.
If this happened today, does anyone besides me think climate scientists would NOT blame it on global warming?
This is why I can’t take them seriously any more. They sit at desks and manipulate data. They don’t go out and look at the sky in summer, and note that the sun appears to be paler than normal in JULY because its light is coming through layers of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. They don’t see sundogs in a sunny afternoon in the middle of July or August because they’re busy with numbers and data, instead of direct observation. They’ll insist that the only kind of ice that forms on rivers is pancake ice, and that rivers NEVER get growlers, when in fact the Kankakee and DesPlaines Rivers right now are JAM PACKED with growlers and there are two massive ice dams that have formed, blocking both of those rivers. But they don’t care, because it doesn’t fit their meme.
They nauseate me.
And in the “one hundred years later” department:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer
It’s held to be the result of non-human causes: e.g., a combination of solar variation (Dalton minimum) and volcanic activity (Mount Tambora eruption).
There is a pile of shoveled global warming in my front yard that is the accumulation of several snows. It is 10+ feet of global warming.
The forecast is for warmer days, but I’ve noticed that about 2 to 3 days ahead of a snow storm or severe rain, the little black ants show up on my hardwood living room floor. I think they can feel the change and what it really means better than any computer.
This morning there were 3, so I’m guessing snow by Saturday, maybe 2 more inches of global warming to add to the pile.
And if we don’t put out birdfood, the birds will literally starve to death. It has happened before, more than once. It isn’t over yet.
A prediction is now in place for an El Nino this summer.
http://news.msn.com/us/here-comes-el-ni%c3%b1o-good-news-for-us-weather-woes
I will only add to this that a very large pool of warm water moved from the region of Hawaii to the coast line of Alaska at the beginning of this prolonged snow and deep cold spell, which began in December. This pool of warm water then pushed the jet stream northward into the Arctic, bringing with it the deep Siberian cold and extreme snows we’ve had this winter.
You may also recall the severe storms that struck the Phillippines, among other places, plus drought, wild fires and severe dust storms in Australia.
Also, please note that the article references two El Ninos that formed and then abruptely shut down. Maybe the science guys have forgotten the thermohaline current’s effects.
Well, well, well. Looky here, looky here.
There is still a hole in the ozone over Antarctica. This is SINCE the reduction in ozone-killing gases such as CFCs starting back in 1980.
But now, there are traces of 4 gases in that same family, and They (science guys) can’t figure out where they’re coming from. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/four-new-ozone-killing-gases-detected-scientists-look-source-n48496?gt1=43001
Well, normally, I would blame it on China, but they’ve had more than enough time to produce massive tonnages of CFCs since their industrial revolution started. When was that, again? 1990, or something? So, if it isn’t coming from China, then it must be coming from some other source.
Maybe from sKerry running his mouth? Or jodaveep producing his own ozone-killing gases while he’s asleep at the switch in the Senate? Aliens, maybe? I don’t know. I’m out of ideas on this one.
The high today where I live was 51F, which is a tad below average for this time of year. But most of the global warming has drained out into the sewer system.
The forecast for tomorrow is colder, with 3″ to 7″ of global warming predicted.
And St. Paddy’s day is not too far behind, which means that the Chicago River will not be green water. It will be green ice.
For what it’s worth, the Greenland ice sheet is no longer blocked by an ice dam (of sorts), and will now slide faster into the north Atlantic.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/warming-melts-last-stable-edge-of-greenland-icesheet
At the same time some moss found in Antarctica and thought to be withered and dead, has been revived after 1600 years.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/frozen-for-1600-years-antarctic-moss-revived
The ice and cold water dump into the north Atlantic is in the form of fresh water, which is less dense than saltwater, and which we all know freezes ahead of saltwater. Yeah, I’d expect cold seasons ahead of us for a while.
Hekla volcano is restless, may erupt soon… or not…. It was supposed to erupt in 2013 but didn’t, so who knows?
http://local.msn.com/icelands-hekla-volcano-close-to-erupting-scientist-claims
But Hekla does have a baby bump (magma bulge), so something might come forth.
Well, for what it’s worth, the forecast for Spring is that the ice cover still in place on the Great Lakes (38% coverage now, down from 92.19% in February) will have a strong influence on spring weather.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/04/18/record-great-lakes-ice-coverage-will-control-spring-weather/
In fact, there is still so much ice on the Great Lakes overall that it is blocking shipping ore to the Gary, IN steel mill, causing it to temporarily suspend operations. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/54889391/ns/business/t/correction-us-steel-icy-shutdown-story/