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Yes, we are having "weather" again
Submitted by fyl on Thu, 2010/01/28 - 16:30.
The end of January is not when it is supposed to rain around here. But, it did. Not a downpour but enough that things are actually wet. It's like the weather is "two months late" around here.
Also, two days ago were were in San Nicolas and were caught in a 30-minute downpour. Nothing up here on the hill but probably an inch of rain there. All very strange.
Note that while the weather station seemed to be sending updates to wunderground during the rain, there is a 3-hour gap in the info out there. Must be Pepe Lobo controlling the region. :-)
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peer review?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/env...e-article.html
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson-
did it get cold?
we have been having one of the coldest winters ever. last year we had the earliest snowfall for houston, dec 10. this year we had the earliest snowfall, dec 6. and the first time that it has ever snowed 2 years in a row. i think it's all global cooling. "hide the decline"
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson-
C'mon you know better than that
You're conflating weather with climate. One data point (i.e., one year in one place), or even two data points, does not a trend make. We're talking about *global* trends over *multi-century* time scales.
See, just for starters:
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/its-cold-today-in-wagga-wa...
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/09/temperatures-plummeted-in-...
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/04/warming-stopped-in-1998.ph...
As for "hiding the decline?" That referred to tree ring data, not temperature data, and was a) misinterpreted by those flogging this around, and b) irrelevant. See, e.g., http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/
Nature magazine said it best: "Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real -- or that human activities are almost certainly the cause. That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several that are completely independent of the climate reconstructions debated in the e-mails." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html
You're just gonna have to try harder if you want to be taken seriously ;)
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temps from Ottawa
We're just the opposite. Winter is starting later and ending sooner. The streets were bare yesterday, almost unheard of, but then we had snow flurries. This week (statistically the second coldest week of the year) we had one day 12 degrees above average (4 C or 39 F). Now it has plummeted 23 degrees to -19 C (-2 F). Brrrrrrr.....
Not global cooling
No colder than what is normal. And actually, rain means cloud cover which means warmer. (Something people living in Seattle learn as there is cloud cover there most of the time.)
As for global warming/cooling, what is expected with what we are doing (putting a lot more CO2 + CO2 equivalents) in the atmosphere is actually causing more weather extremes. Hurricanes are more likely. Lower as well as higher temperatures are more likely. Ocean currents change.
The current global warming debate is along the lines of how many PPM of CO2 equivalents can we "stand". As the numbers get debated, there is an "add-on feature" that I hadn't thought about but just read about. White reflects more heat than blue. A lot more. So, as ice caps melt (which is happening) the same level of CO2 equivalents actually produce more global warming because of the color change.
the work of the U.S.A.
please dont tell anyone but i think that this is the work of the U.S.A. along with the earth quake in Haiti. the U.S.A. is controlling the weather. next they are going to start making the sun go down a minute earlier every day so that before long the world will be in darkness except of course the U.S.A.
but i am kidding or maybe this is true.
Global Warming taking a break
This year and last, global warming did indeed take a break. THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING STATISTICALLY, because the trend is still towards rapidly warming climes (not as rapidly as some fear, of course).