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Post by principled on Dec 28, 2012 5:07:41 GMT 1
Always been a great fan of the RI Christmas lectures. First time I've missed them in years. However, it interesting to see how the media emphasis on CO2 has actually changed children's perceptions of just how much of the gas our air actually contains....and then we have the "you know who" trying hard to convince the kids that it's actually a pollutant!Doh. P
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 12, 2013 13:35:11 GMT 1
An incredible and a rare site in the Holy Land: The biggest snowstorm in decades covered Jerusalem with a blanket of white Thursday, paralyzing the city, but thrilling residents. Looking out at the hills around the ancient city is more like looking at Colorado or Switzerland than the arid Middle East. Cars, pine trees and palm trees are all covered with snow. The city was completely shut down, schools closed, businesses closed. Snow is so rare in Jerusalem that it essentially brings an unscheduled national holiday. "First of all in Jerusalem snow is really rare so it's a really special occasion, and another bright side is that school was cancelled," one young woman told CBS News, as she enjoyed the day off. In a country beset by conflict for decades, Israeli newscasters were also elated -- that Israel could be like a "normal" country and talk about the weather. On Thursday, anyway, Jerusalem is white, it's peaceful and it's beautiful. www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57563258/rare-snow-shuts-down-jerusalem/
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 12, 2013 13:38:31 GMT 1
Big chill in Russia, China and India, too. More examples of global warming, I suppose.
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 6, 2013 11:58:05 GMT 1
Heaviest Snowfall in a Century Hits Moscow – WWF has logic fail Posted on February 5, 2013 by Anthony Watts From the Moscow Times By Roland Oliphant The heaviest snowfall in a century brought Moscow and the surrounding region to a near standstill and left hundreds of people without power, officials said Tuesday. And with snowfall set to continue at least until the end of the week, the authorities are bracing for more chaos on the roads. “There hasn’t been such a winter in 100 years,” Pyotr Biryukov, deputy mayor for residential issues, said Tuesday in comments carried by Interfax. “The snow this year has already reached one and a half times the climatic norm,” he said. The capital has seen 216 centimeters of snow fall since the beginning of winter, Biryukov said. Average snowfall in Moscow is 152 centimeters a year. Biryukov said the city saw 26 centimeters in the 24 hours preceding his Tuesday afternoon news conference and has seen 36 centimeters since the beginning of February. The heavy snowfall that struck the city Monday quickly led to chaos on the roads. The Yandex Probki traffic monitoring service reached a full 10 points, and on Monday evening it issued the seldom-seen warning that “it’s quicker to walk.” Read more: www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/heaviest-snowfall-in-a-century-hits-moscow/475102.html#ixzz2K4m8i13z
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 6, 2013 12:03:36 GMT 1
“The weather we’ve seen in the past couple of days completely fits with the tendency that was identified a couple of years ago, that we are going to to see much stronger, intensive bursts of precipitation in the future,” said Alexei Kokorin, director of the climate and energy program at WWF Russia. “In the summer, we will probably see stronger bursts of rain.”... The popular warmist theory is that reduced summer sea ice causes the enhanced snow effect, and that sea ice reduction is caused by global warming, but it isn’t cut and dried proof. Then there is the months-long lag problem between reduced sea ice and weather. more here wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/05/heaviest-snowfall-in-a-century-hits-moscow-wwf-has-logic-fail/#more-78933
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 6, 2013 12:06:51 GMT 1
The WWF blames current Moscow weather (worst for a century) on global warming. So what caused the equivalent snowfall a century ago?
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 6, 2013 18:08:11 GMT 1
Original Sin.
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 7, 2013 3:55:39 GMT 1
Here are two graphs that show there is no correlation negative or otherwise between Arctic summer sea ice and northern hemisphere snow. Figure. Arctic sea ice area (blue) and Northern Hemisphere snow area (red). Upper panel shows actual data. Lower panel shows the anomalies of the same data, with the same units (note different scales). The R^2 of the snow and ice anomalies is 0.01, meaninglessly small. The R^2 of the first differences of the anomalies is 0.004, equally insignificant. Neither of these are significantly improved by lags of up to ± 6 months
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 7, 2013 11:40:27 GMT 1
Whilst the period 1986 - 2000 is mostly small amplitude noise, one could be forgiven for seeing a strong anticorrelation in the anomaly graph since 2001. However the mean snow area anomaly over the recent period is zero with a very small trend, but the ice area anomaly is significantly downward.
Superficially suggestive, perhaps, but by no means a consummation of hypothesis.
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 10, 2013 22:24:54 GMT 1
Entertaining time lapse video of last night's snow in Connecticut
But can we call it global warming?
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 10, 2013 22:32:55 GMT 1
And here's how they treated the same phenomenon in 1978.
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 11, 2013 1:51:25 GMT 1
Calm down, dear! The Ice Age Scare just isn't fashionable anymore! Even Global Warming is a bit "last year", or even last century!
Expert Opinion now talks about Climate Change (at your expense) which means that (a) carbon dioxide moves in a mysterious way (b) we don't know what will happen next (c) it's bound to be a Bad Thing (d) it's Your Fault and (e) you must pay more taxes because of it.
In the bad old days, when everybody believed in Religion, the priesthood said (a) God moves in a mysterious way (b) we don't know what will happen next (c) it's bound to be a Bad Thing (d) it's Your Fault and (e) you must pay more taxes because of it.
How lucky we are to live in enlightened times and to be guided by Expert Opinion instead of superstition!
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 13, 2013 10:14:15 GMT 1
shows.stv.tv/scottish-passport/top-tips/213396-french-resort-breaks-world-snow-record/Cauterets, in the French Pyrenees, has overtaken the world record for snow at a ski resort, with a massive 5 metres of snow on the ground – enough to keep the slopes open for business until mid April.According to the French newspaper La Figaro, as of Sunday the resort had more snow than any other ski resort in the world, beating the record held until now by Mammoth Mountain in the USA. The record levels have been due to it snowing in Cauterets every day since January 13, with France Meteo's forecasts suggesting that the snow will continue falling in the days ahead, with almost one metre extra likely to be added by the middle of next week. Cauterets has always received an ample supply of snow even in years when other resorts in the region have been less fortunate, but the quantity of snow this year has surprised everyone. However, this amount of snow has its drawbacks, with some ski slopes being forced to close for safety reasons and sixty people currently working to clear the resort of the excess. With suitable conditions on the ground likely to remain until mid-April, this has been greeted as good news for the resort and for the surrounding tourist infrastructure of hotels, restaurants and bed and breakfasts. Less well known than the Alps for its skiing, resorts in the Pyrenees often offer more authentic mountain scenery with a less built up and more natural environment than their Alpine competitors. Cauterets is less than an hour from the airport of Lourdes/Tarbes, which can be reached by flights from London Stansted and is also within striking distance of Toulouse, Pau and Biarritz.
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 13, 2013 10:16:01 GMT 1
The "researchers" predicting the end of the European ski resorts thanks to global warming must be a bit miffed. They'll just have to go back to the drawing board, I expect, and come up with some "hindsight" to demonstrate the AGW hypothesis predicted this contrary outcome all the time - they just forgot to include it! Of course, when a hypothesis is "irrefutable", like Anthropogenic CO2-induced warming, absolutely NOTHING contradicts it, EVAH! wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/26/another-vinerism-or-just-a-snow-job/
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 13, 2013 11:58:45 GMT 1
Yesterday I took the ecologically sound train southwards from clear, dry, cold Cambridge to warm, snowcovered Stansted. You see? It's all due to warming and thus it's all your fault for breathing out carbon dioxide. The effect of AGW is so strong that you can measure it in less than 30 miles!
BELIEVE!!!
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