That’s from the avalanche center in the Tetons, and here is a current web-cam view up Yosemite Valley towards still-closed Tioga Pass (in the left background):
AP has a nice roundup of late snow and snowpack news (including the Teton quote). Just weather. No mention of climate. Nothing this time about snow and cold being caused by global warming. Now if we could just get the press to do the same when there is a regional hot spell. Still, it’s progress. Remember the spinning on last winter’s snowzilla?
Most amusing was Al Gore’s quote from “the scientific community“:
A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.
A click on Gore’s link showed “the scientific community” to be Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page. Gore should also have quoted Page’s credentials, which Page listed in his next line:
That’s simple science even for me, a guy whose scientific education pretty much ended with the old “Watch Mr. Wizard” TV show and a subscription to Popular Mechanics.
Unfortunately, Gore could have quoted some actual scientists to the same effect, as Andrew Bolt quoted the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research:
The overall warming of the earth’s northern half could result in cold winters… Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005-06 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it.
But as Bolt also quoted, the Potsdammer’s IPCC bible had predicted the opposite:
Fewer cold outbreaks; fewer, shorter, intense cold spells / cold extremes in winter” as being consistent across all model projections for Europe
What, are there no takers this time around? Are they tiring of the ridicule?
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The cooling is getting more and more difficult to deny.
People are noticing and waking up. It’s almost June and poor people have to buy additional wood to heat their houses! It’s unprecedented (in their lifetime). If the cooling continues (and it very likely will continue), AGW will be dead and forgotten very soon!
I think they’re finding the whole global-warming-induced-freezing-winters idea to be a harder sell with Joe Public than they thought.
Al Gore, Harold Camping, etc.
The prophets of doom. I guess it pays well.
“Tiring of the ridicule”! I like it. They have no sense of humour and hate people ridiculing them. But they can’t see how ridiculous they appear to normal folk.
And yet in Australia “climate change” is still being spun as a problem leading to no snow, machines to do the job instead.
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/whitemountain-promise-20110527-1f7oc.html
But these last 3-4 years snow has come early to the ski regions, no need for machines.
I one day last week there were no less than 5 climate change/carbon tax articles at the SMH. God loves a tryer, Gillard certainly is trying, but in the face of well below average temperatures, coldest May day in 40 years recently in Sydney and coldest May day in 74 years in Canberra, maybe the “heat” is leaving the debate on CO2 warming.
Are they tiring of the ridicule?
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said. (Independent 20th Match 2000
“The overall warming of the earth’s northern half could result in cold winters”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13567903
Seems the Catlin arctic survey team have a theory as to why our northern winters are getting colder.
“As warm water evaporates, the salinity increases and temperature falls resulting in a mass of denser water, which sinks and drives the current.
“If the Arctic gets a lot warmer, we will see a slowing down of the current,” she said.
“If that happens, we’ll see the climate in places like England change subtly, getting colder because the warmer waters from the south won’t be pushed north.”
AGW will be dead and forgotten very soon!
JK: The Gore crowd will just switch to “we have to turn over society to central authority and go back to the stone age to save us from another ice age.”
They have one solution to every problem!
Thanks
JK
Jim, I agree. As I love to say:
The herd will swing around but it will still be a firm and arrogant herd.
But this time the herd is HUGE and heavy and it will have to change direction 180°. When it does, it will be explosive.
They said some years ago that melting ice would reduce salinity and stop the Gulf stream. Now the opposite. Come on you alarmists get your story straight and stick to it.
Oh! Sorry, you are unable, by default, to go down that route.
John, the entirety of their brainpower and efforts are dedicated to finding reasons that it must be warming, and why it’s our fault. It’s hard, dirty work, but someone’s got to do it!
Two days away from the onset of “flaming” June and my central heating is on and has been for a couple of weeks now. Temperatures in NW England are struggling to break through a ceiling of 12 degrees celsius that feels much colder thanks to the wind chill factor. And yet the noddies at the Met Office insist that we are going to have a warm and sunny summer and a mild winter. I’m currently stocking up on logs and coal…
In stryn, norway.
Base. 7 meters of snow.
Top station. 5.5 meters.!!
Summer Will be Good!!!!
will be the coldest may since 1942 in sydney and the gooses in GOVT are going to put our heating cost up to save the world
Alec,
Been hearing the same reports in Canada that we are going to have an above average heat this summer and dryer.
So far it ain’t happened yet.
Tons of rain and lower than normal temperatures.
These folk are exactly like the crank who predicted the world would end on 21 May and now says actually the date is 21 October…
Come what may they will demand ‘action’ to avert catastrophe, blisfully unaware of the impact and unintended consequences for everyone else of their demands. Does it matter that we are experiences a cooling period? No. They’ll just find something else in this basket of pseudo-scientific apples and pears that is the Greenpeace, Fiends of the Earth, Earth First mantra and the IPCC “science” with which to scare the uninformed and hysterically inclined foot soldiers they rely on for their “Rent-a-mob” demonstrations and bun fights.
@Gray Monk:
“…blisfully unaware of the impact and unintended consequences for everyone else of their demands.”
The know EXACTLY what the consequences are and they are fully intended.
As noted many times here on WUWT, greater snowfall and rainfall are generally associated with warmer, not cooler climates. This is demonstrated clearly in ice core records. Now, if this seasons snow does not melt before the next winter, and then we get more snow on top of it and then that is repeated for several years, it would get interesting, but as it stands, this snowfall is just variations in weather more likely related to ENSO than any long term cooling and trying to relate it to anything long term at this point is like trying to connect the tornado outbreak to AGW.
Worrying signals from the nature scarce us all the time.Specially those who are studying nature and watching the erosion over the time and the pollution that is affecting the earth at large.
It is like playing a game with a child where the rules are always changing so that the child wins. At first it was global warming would be the end of snow. Now it is global warming causes more heavy snow. If there is a warm winter in the future, it will once again become global warming causes less snow. The rules always change, they always $win$, we always lose.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/26/northeast-us-blizzard-proves-global-warming/#comment-559890
Scottish Sceptic says:
May 29, 2011 at 12:59 am
This is a good place to add Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s comment saved at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/robert_kennedys_fantastically.html :
Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled.
That may have been true, and may still be true, but a few months later there was too much snow for sledding.
My Freezer is getting colder with a lot more frost. Is this due to global warming?
The UK has been particularly chilly for the last few days – night temperatures around 9degC in London suburbs, overcast skys. I put the central heating on last night, and we’re nearly into June…
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?… The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
– George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
I know it’s just a dystopian fable, but . . . .
@edim on size of herd…. Important point!
The previous phase change in 1976 involved only a few hundred insiders who knew each other. Now, if they want to switch back to Global Cooling, they’ll need to turn all the governments in the world, all the corporations, all the churches, all the media, all the schools, and half of the people.
The institutions will be easy. Groupthink, bribes, bonuses, and blackmail will turn them on a dime. But the persuaded half of the people will be harder. The only thing that keeps them in line is blind trust of the leaders plus partisan hatred of the other half. When these believers have to choose between (1) admitting those awful fascist Deniers were right all along, versus (2) continuing to follow the leaders who are suddenly singing the opposite tune, it will get interesting.