I am sure that you all remember this article in the San Francisco Chronicle in October of 2006.
(10-27-2006) 04:00 PDT Norden, Nevada County — For the ski industry, both in California and rest of the nation, there is no greater truth than global warming, with its threat of a shrinking snowpack and the point that Yogi Berra once made so succinctly: “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
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If nothing is done to curb emissions, greenhouse gas emissions could raise Sierra temperatures another 5 or 6 degrees by the end of the 21st century, according to some projections. The snowpack could be reduced by 89 percent.
It all came rushing back to be when I read this on the Alpine Meadows web site:
Current Snow Conditions: Alpine is Closed – Too much snow to safely enjoy. (Extreme Avalanche Danger and High Winds)
Right now it looks like the Alpine Meadows could use some global warming to stay in business.
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UPDATE: It looks like the winds have subsided enough, as of 6:37AM with an update Monday morning they have removed the warning, after all, they don’t want all the heavy snow to scare customers away. Here’s the current snow depths:
And here is the current welcome message:
Source: http://www.skialpine.com/mountain/snow-report/
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Steven Goddard has been posting old news headlines, etc on his blog too.
They have been predicting the end of snow, Arctic melting…. for over a half century
Here’s one from 1947:
1947 : Greenland Melting – Sea Level Rising At A Dizzying Rate – Speedy International Intervention Needed
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/
Yup! It’s worse than we thought.
This Globul Worming brings us all too much snow.
Got to cut down with that CO2 stuff quickly.
“MyNorthwest.com staff
The North Cascades Highway is covered in so much snow that road crews expect the latest opening in 20 years.
The Washington State Department of Transportation says it probably won’t be able to start clearing the pass until early to mid-April.”
The fear game has now propagated to mega earthquakes that are now caused by global warming. Wonder what caused them in the past???
“there is no greater idiocy than sciemce writers within the MSM”
Hysteria always seems to have the quality that it is highest when it is least warranted.
I know in Wyoming, they are already beginning releases of water from reservoirs, in anticipation for a higher than average spring runoff. You can find the percent of normal snowpack for all western states here: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/gis/snow.html
Unlike heatwaves, droughts and floods which are all clearly caused by Global Warming, this is just weather. /sarc
Even accross the pond they were predicting the death of the Scottish ski industry. Now it’s back again in March.
The last few Skii seasons in Aus have started “early”, I wonder what winter 2011 will bring. At a guess, no science involved at all a la Gore, winter this year will be colder, lots of snow where people want it early too.
I don’t know why, but Anthony’s pal Bastardi and his friend have managed to be worse (much worse in fact) than the UK Met office. They (‘WeatherBell)’) have been forecasting light rain every day here in Market Harborough (Britain’s fastest growing town, the Phoenix City of the UK). It has hardly rained at all for three weeks.
I remember when they predicted the demise of snow on the Alps. It came back in early March with a good fall of powder.
http://www.planetski.eu/news/2595
Italy has just had an “outstanding season” according to the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/mar/18/skiwatch-fresh-snow-alps
All those doom and gloom predictions just sound so silly now. Oh, I forgot, all this snow IS caused by global warming. Yaaaaaawn!
Well, uh, you can’t judge long-term trends by short-term fluctuations. You just have to find a trend that happens to coincide with what you’re trying to prove, declare it to be the “baseline” and then take a ruler and draw the trend out like it’s going to continue forever.
The snow pack is uneven. http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/support/water/westwide/snowpack/wy2011/snow1103.gif
Real warming would harm ski industries and other winter sports. That does not mean it is happenning or will happening.
Nor does that fact change the reality that almost everyone else, including all terrestrial vertebrates not just people, would be better off if it did warm all the way to the paleontological maximum of 22C (room temperature).
Warmcold strikes again!
I was just looking at the weather for this week. This cold storm is going to drop more rain and snow. For those who haven’t been keeping up with the stats on these things, California is already above the precipitation totals for the year.
With that in mind, consider this. For the last two weeks, we’ve seen the media and Californians freaking out over highly improbable possibilities of any kind of melt-down of the two nuclear reactors here in the state. “”California Has Earthquakes!”…. Oh No!
Yet there IS a good probability that this very wet season will bring a disaster that no one is mentioning. Around the Sacramento area, in the northern part of the Great San Joaquin Valley, there is a levee system that was created to provide more living and farming space in the state. The total area encompassed by the levee system is over 1,100 square miles. As the melt season approaches, there is more water in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range stored in the form of snow than there has been in a very long time. When this melts off in April through July, the old levee system is going to be taxed like it hasn’t been in a very long time, and like everything else in California, this system has been poorly maintained. I for one am very concerned that many of the citizens of this state are going to pay for that negligence.
Here is a map of the delta region, and here is the Wiki. There are no huge population centers in danger, but there are many small communities that are spread out throughout the region. So while everyone is panicking over a disaster that is unlikely to happen, the momentum for the one that IS likely and will destroy many lives goes ignored.
Plus… Think of all the Delta Smelt that will die!!!!
OK. The last think is a somewhat private joke between us Californians! 🙂
Still, this spring may be the one where we pay for the complete lack of serious leadership in the state.
PS. Yes… I blogged this.
Snowpack will increase around N MN the next couple days with potential blizzard conditions around the head of Lake Superior. Colder conditions afterwards will keep the pack around a little while longer. Skiers and snowmobilers will be happy.
But see they can still claim that the excess snow is caused by ACC. All prediction of snow cover have been made now, from too little snow to too much. Whatever the ACC predictions are, they turn out to be correct. This way the ACC theory remains infallible. When a theory becomes infallible it ceases to be a theory, it becomes a faith.
The only thing that is melting is the global consensus on catastrophic climate disruption!
Once Climategate broke, it was downhill from there….record cold & snows in the Northern Hemisphere helped it along, ask the Brits.
Thanks, Russ, I used to hear a lot of blather in my field (public health) about this, but except for the hand-wringing over recent Congressional action, the PH folks are more concerned about keeping their own gravy trains rolling. Pandemic flu, bioterrorism etc.
Someone should get a shot from the same vantage point as the picture on Gavin’s book about drought for Lake Mead (was it?) after the snow melts. Meanwhile, the AGW folks have been pretty quiet about the status of world mountain glaciers for the last year or so.
Spring keeps coming earlier each year due to global warming. Ahhhh, those were the days.
“Enough snow for 2 winters” – New England
http://tinyurl.com/65toanb
“Snow falling on first full day of spring” – Connecticut
http://tinyurl.com/6yullq3
“Northstar is reveling in snow this spring – so much so that the resort smashed a 25-year record.”
http://tinyurl.com/4hffvga
“Near-record snow depths on Metro Vancouver”
http://tinyurl.com/4lndd6s
I have been an avid skier for more than 42 years living in Colorado. I still ski the black diamonds, although more slowly at 63.
It was the campaign to convince skiers during the past 5 to 10 years that global warming was going to end all the fun that persuaded me to check into what “this global warming hoopla” was about.
I should also mention that I have worked as adjunct faculty to a small college, teaching a beginning course in research to graduate students. As a part of the course, I have always required my students to select research papers from any branch of science and to critically evaluate the basic assumptions, the designs, the stats, etc., and to present what they have found to the class.
Applying these same skills, I undertook an in-depth review of the literature on global warming “science” more than 5 years ago, and I concluded that it was essentially baseless hysteria and superstition. Yes, CO2 does trap heat in a closed, non-chaotic environment. As far as I can tell, that’s about as far as it goes.
I have been amazed, if not a little ashamed, at what the science community has allowed the “warmists” to get away with. This whole travesty has taught me that the human species hasn’t progressed as far as I had thought. Superstition and hysteria are always there, waiting to get their foot in the door and to take hold of the collective consciousness when they can. It’s very disappointing.
We have had enough winter precipitation these past few days to cancel school busses this morning, on this second day of Spring! The alarmists shouldn’t worry about us, however, as we have also had colder than normal temperatures. The month of March has been running about 10 degrees C colder than normal, thus I don’t think we can blame all this winter weather on global warming.
After eyeballing the Canadian Weather at a Glance page, it looks like much of the country is colder than average: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/jet_stream/index_e.html
We’re somewhere near the upper corner of the massive band of snow reaching across four provinces, extending from northern Alberta, down into Utah and Colorado.
Hha… confirmation at last! I had always suspected CAGW was a snow-job.
The danger of AGW is that an early melt of snowpack will just cause floods rather than releasing water slowly over the summer irrigation season. If we have more warming, we will need to build more dams to store the irrigation water that is presently stored as snow. I second Craig’s link, it isn’t that great of an overall snowpack:
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/support/water/westwide/snowpack/wy2011/snow1103.gif