Less than one year ago …..
Scientists: Global warming linked to big U.S. snowstorms
3/4/2011What caused the colossal snowfalls that buried much of the USA this winter, setting snow records in New York City and Chicago? One group of scientists says there’s a link to … global warming.
Counterintuitive though it may be, “heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” says Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the Weather Underground, a private weather service.
MASTERS’ ANSWERS: Expert took your climate questions
The announcement was made at a news conference on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-profit environmental group. It was not published in a peer-reviewed study in an academic journal.“The old adage, ‘It’s too cold to snow,’ has some truth to it,” said Masters. “A colder atmosphere holds less moisture, limiting the snowfall that can occur.”
At one point this winter, 49 of the 50 U.S. states were partly or completely snow-covered. Only Florida was snow-free.
And now ……
January 2012. Just 5.8 inches of snow for the month, temperatures in Greater Springfield more than four degrees above normal for the month, including no zero-degree days and a nearly 70-degree reading on Jan. 6.
Indeed, it is the winter that global warming promised.
Before time began in 1950, or whenever, every season brought normal snowfall, also temperatures and rainfall were always exactly normal.
The climate was in perfect harmony, such perfect harmony that Hitler thought his troops could march thru Russia in winter like a stroll thru the rose garden. And everyone believed in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
Yep, their lobotomies took! Amazingly stupid, intentionally ignorant, and with no recall. How do these people survive? …… oh yeh, with the “safety net”. Extollers of Darwin hate Darwinism.
Four degrees above normal huh? How much is that actually? Oh, and what exactly is normal and says who based on what? “Counter-intuitive as it may be…”
Excuse me while I point and laugh.
Steven, where do you find these guys?
Nothing to do with AGW, rather to do with the influence of a One Solar/Earth year ‘Dry’ Cycle currently affecting America (30degrees of longitude/month with the solar orbit of the Earth’s Magnetic Field.) This ‘Dry’ Cycle has now reached Australia. America still has six months to endure, before a two Solar/Earth Year ‘Wet’/Normal Period (Australia 2013-14) and then a Five Year severe ‘Dry’ Cycle (Australia 2015-19.) These ‘Dry’ Cycles were identified and a method for their exact forecasting developed by Alex S. Gaddes in his book ‘Tomorrow’s Weather’ (1990.)
An updated version of this work (with ‘Dry’ Cycle forecasts to 2055,)is available as a free pdf from [email protected]