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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 7, 2013 14:29:59 GMT 1
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 8, 2013 15:16:13 GMT 1
Record sea ice in the Baltic STORA JOURNALISTPRISET 2012 Måndag den 8 april ‘It is an unusually persistent cold. Normally the melting would have begun by now’ says Torbjörn Grafström at SMHIs Ice Service. The ice has never grown as long as this year. Presently half of the Sea of Bothnia is ice covered. About half of the lake Vänern is still ice covered, which is unusual this time of the year. All 5 ice breakers are out to assist in the Sea of Bothnia and Bay of Bothnia.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 8, 2013 15:20:42 GMT 1
"Since record keeping began in the sixties, we've never encountered anything like this before," ice breaker Ulf Gulldne told the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda.
On March 29th, 176,000 square kilometers of the Baltic Sea was covered in ice, a record for the time of year. On a map, it means about half of the central and northern parts are frozen over. Far north, the ice is both thick and difficult to break through.
The date on which the ice reaches its maximum spread usually falls much earlier in the year. The previously latest date record was March 25th, 2008. That year, only 49,000 square kilometeres of the Baltic was covered in ice, which was the smallest maximum spread of ice in the previous 100 years.
"I've never seen this much ice this late in the season," said Karl Herlin, captain of the icebreaker Atle, currently working off the coast of Luleå in northern Sweden.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 8, 2013 15:26:35 GMT 1
"Since record keeping began in the sixties, we've never encountered anything like this before," ice breaker Ulf Gulldne told the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda. On March 29th, 176,000 square kilometers of the Baltic Sea was covered in ice, a record for the time of year. On a map, it means about half of the central and northern parts are frozen over. Far north, the ice is both thick and difficult to break through. The date on which the ice reaches its maximum spread usually falls much earlier in the year. The previously latest date record was March 25th, 2008. That year, only 49,000 square kilometeres of the Baltic was covered in ice, which was the smallest maximum spread of ice in the previous 100 years. "I've never seen this much ice this late in the season," said Karl Herlin, captain of the icebreaker Atle, currently working off the coast of Luleå in northern Sweden. His crew is freeing up a path through the ice for the ship Rautaruukki that is picking its way to Luleå. It is one of the between five to 15 ships that Atle has assisted every day in the past week, the busiest so far this winter. "It's kind of cool to see how the weather changes from year to year," Herlin added. The Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket) has all its five icebreaking crews in service at the moment. According to the administration's web map of the fleet's activities, the icebreaker Odin is currently leading the way through the ice for eight ships south of Skellefteå. The remaining ice breakers are near Brahestad, Nordvalen and in the bay of Gävle. "In certain locations the ships need help because the ice has become more compact," Johny Lindvall at the Maritime Administration's ice breaking control room told TT. Southern parts of the Baltic Sea also retain some ice all the way past Stockholm down to the archipelago outside Västervik. "The cold is unusually stubborn, as normally the ice would have started to melt by now," said Torbjörn Grafström at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). At first forecasters expected the Baltic ice to reach its maximum in late January, but a prolonged spell of high pressure that arrived over in early March caused new ice to form late in the season, resulting in the record-late date. www.sott.net/article/260591-Late-season-freeze-sets-Baltic-ice-record
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 12, 2013 12:27:50 GMT 1
Just a reminder of what is happening at the other end of the world.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 24, 2013 14:31:04 GMT 1
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Post by nickrr on Apr 24, 2013 21:12:20 GMT 1
Why do you keep reporting on the weather? Do you think that this is telling us something about climate change?
I was also wondering why you only tell us about cold weather. For instance, earlier this year there was a heat wave in Australia but I don't remember you drawing this to our attention. Surely you are not selectively reporting only cold weather events?
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Post by alancalverd on Apr 25, 2013 1:16:29 GMT 1
As far as I can tell, climate is any phenomenon that behaves like a currently fashionable climate change hypothesis, and weather is anything that doesn't.
Thus the cost of damage done by hurricanes is a result of climate change, but the frequency and intensity of hurricanes is just weather.
And why do people get so excited about it? Climate changes. Always has, always will. Sacrificing virgins won't affect it.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 25, 2013 14:08:22 GMT 1
Because this thread is about snowy weather, nickrr. You may not have noticed but contrary to the Met Office assertion a few years ago that snow was a thing of the past (as per Global Warming hypothesis) we have, in fact, been inundated with the stuff ever since.
Perhaps you should address your concerns to the Met Office?
It could be, you know, nickrr, that weather trumps climate. Ever thought of that, my man?
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 25, 2013 14:11:31 GMT 1
As for Australia's extremes, Australia's climate has always been one of extremes. Those who think they have discovered something new are prats.
Did the weathermen scream "CLIMATE CHANGE" in the dustbowl era in the USA? And that was more than a one year event.
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Post by rsmith7 on Apr 26, 2013 9:21:09 GMT 1
Sea temperature 12/4/13, Pentland Firth, North of Scotland: 5.6C Three degrees below average.
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Post by mrsonde on Apr 26, 2013 17:04:08 GMT 1
Why do you keep reporting on the weather? Do you think that this is telling us something about climate change? ;D And what else is there, pray tell?
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 28, 2013 11:53:33 GMT 1
GAP BETWEEN REALITY AND GREEN DELUSIONS WIDENS
Date: 28/04/13 Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph
Has there ever in history been such an almighty disconnect between observable reality and the delusions of a political class that is quite impervious to any rational discussion of climate and energy policy?
Last week it was reported that 3,318 places in the USA had recorded their lowest temperatures for this time of year since records began. Similar record cold was experienced by places in every province of Canada. So cold has the Russian winter been that Moscow had its deepest snowfall in 134 years of observations.
Here in Britain, where we had our fifth freezing winter in a row, the Central England Temperature record – according to an expert analysis on the US science blog Watts Up With That – shows that in this century, average winter temperatures have dropped by 1.45C, more than twice as much as their rise between 1850 and 1999, and twice as much as the entire net rise in global temperatures recorded in the 20th century.
But, hang on, it wasn’t meant to be like this. Weren’t we told that, thanks to all that carbon dioxide we are pumping into the air, the world was faced with global warming; that, according to the computer models, temperatures were due to rise by at least 0.3C every decade; and that snowfall in Britain was “a thing of the past”?
Wasn’t it to meet this unprecedented threat that our MPs voted almost unanimously for the Climate Change Act? Weren’t we meant to be “giving a lead to the world” by cutting our CO2 emissions by 80 per cent in 40 years, doubling our electricity bills by heaping taxes on fossil fuels, and spending hundreds of billions on subsidising all of those 32,000 wind turbines?
Somehow oblivious to this, the world’s emissions of CO2 have continued to hurtle upward, by 50 per cent since 1990. Yet global temperatures have obstinately failed to rise. Attempts to get a global agreement on cutting CO2 emissions have collapsed. Pretty well every developed country, apart from Britain, is going flat out to build more fossil-fuelled power stations – leaving our own politicians almost alone in the world, with their fantasy that, by “decarbonising” our economy at unimaginable cost, we can still somehow give everyone else a lead in changing the earth’s climate.
Has there ever in history been such an almighty disconnect between observable reality and the delusions of a political class that is quite impervious to any rational discussion? This was superbly illustrated by two Commons debates on Thursday April 18, when for the first time we had an MP, Peter Lilley, standing up in Parliament to confront the rest of them with an utterly withering blast of reality.
On one side were those still lost in their bubble of make-believe, led by Tim Yeo, the man who earns £200,000 a year on the side lobbying for firms in the “renewable” industry. On the other was Lilley, simply mocking them all, pointing out with facts and figures just how “united in lunacy” they had become. When Yeo claimed that China has “some of the most ambitious decarbonisation plans in the world”, Lilley reminded him that China is now adding more CO2 to the air every year than all Britain’s emissions put together, and that by 2030 it will be responsible for half the world’s total emissions. So contemptuous was Lilley, and even at times so funny, that his speeches are well worth reading in full on the Commons website.
But, by golly, when one sees what childish idiocies were being parroted by all those MPs around him, it brings home just what a problem this collective flight from reality is presenting us with.
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Post by nickrr on Apr 28, 2013 20:16:44 GMT 1
So do you think that this current cold weather is telling us anything about man-made climate change?
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Post by nickrr on Apr 28, 2013 20:23:10 GMT 1
And obviously not something you'd mention because you only report on evidence that fits your preconceived notions.
I'd hope not because it's a statement that doesn't appear to make sense. What does "weather trumps climate" mean?
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