Above: Photo taken at eye level of a sign already elevated because of seasonal snow issues. See below for photo of sunken boats in Valdez harbor due to snow loading.
The Valdez Alaska Dispatch writes:
All the experts say the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal.
Good thing she wasn’t in Valdez this week when the citizenry got buried under a record snowfall. We’re not talking about your ordinary little dump here. That was in Copenhagen, where world leaders were meeting to discuss what to do about global warming and the Bloomberg news service was warning that Barack Obama and the rest would “face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.”
Valdez, Alaska got more than four inches per hour at the height of the snowstorm that began there Monday and ran through the week. By the time the citizens of Alaska’s only oil port finally caught a break, the snow was piled 5 feet, 8 inches deep.
Yes, you read right.
Five feet, 8 inches; over the head of your average American woman, up the nose of your average American man. The National Weather Service called it record.
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So much snow that snow loads sunk one boat in the harbor while other owners try to keep up with snow removal.
From NBC TV in Washington DC:
History has been made in Washington, DC also. The snow has already broken the 1 day record for DC. The old record of 11.5″ on December 17,1932 is now in 2nd place since National Airport has over 15″ with snow still falling. This storm is now in 6th place all-time and the February 1983 storm total of 16.6″ may yet be eclipsed.
h/t SPPI
vukcevic (03:36:41) :
“…The draft of chapter two is in the pipeline and will be available on line soon. Also, the time line is extended back to 1600, showing a satisfactory correlation.”
Looking forward to reading part two when it’s ready. Thanks for letting us know.
vulgarmorality
After reading your link – its what i’ve thought for years. The AGW ideology is just a fromt for misanthropes to redesign the way we live. Those who hate people, those who hate the earth, and those who hate both. Climate change is doom, people are doom.. People cause this doom.
This is the only message that they really have. Its an emotional one. It is dangerous that people with power are misanthropes, whether they be in science or politics, or culture, and that their desires on humanity are miserable ones.
“Across both the US and Siberia, the cold weather is forecast to intensify over the coming days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/20012008news.shtml”
Hmmm-No snow in Burlington Vermont from the big storm (or on the ground as I look about) and the forecast is for rain by the weekend As is usual in the last 10 years. Thank goodness for global cooling.
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USVT0033
Someone’s got it wrong.
Re: Barry Foster (01:37:24)
I also found that interesting. Even engineers get caught in assumptions, possibly as companies foolishly force-compromise their designs. The anomalous weather turned up during a swip forecast by Corbyn last month.
Tenuc & vukcevic,
Interesting exchange there. Barkin writes about how the slow movement of the core (and relative motion of other shells, related to celestial bodies) results in slow hemispheric-scale atmospheric pressure changes. Arctic precipitation is related to temperature. Even the north Pacific is affected by the more dramatic Atlantic events you have discussed, particularly in winter. Geomagnetic activity is being affected by factors other than the sun. The pressure-pattern changes in the atmosphere are being affected by more than one factor showing up in geomagnetic indices. I’m not thinking of geomagnetic activity as a “driver”, but rather as an ‘indicator light’ that responds to celestial, terrestrial, & solar factors, which may not be having the exact same effect on atmospheric pressure-pattern dynamics (very fluid, so I wouldn’t expect continuous phase-concordance – in particular I would expect seasonal anomalies related to factors affecting polar motion). In other words, I think we have to avoid slipping into thinking-traps about what is driving what, given the complex context, until we have conducted more complex analyses, but I am encouraged by the nature of some of the notes being exchanged.
Meanwhile , over at Climate Progress , Joe Romm says the record setting snow in DC is proof of global warming .
Tenuc (02:01:47) :
Yes this is how cold periods and ice ages begin. Warming leads to heating of the equator, mainly oceans, precipitation increases, oceans lose this heat, and cooling at the poles occurs, chiefly the north pole, and this triggers a global cooling, as seen across the northern hemisphere in the last sever years.
*several*
DR (11:25:24) :
“Various websites and news reports are making a lot of the 2010 prediction for record temps. I’m no expert, but just comparing ENSO numbers and assuming it and SOI are reliable indicators for global temperature forecasts, it does appear 2010 may very well rise to or exceed recent years, including 2005 and 2007.”
Intrade.com will let you bet (after you’ve registered, etc.) on whether 2010 will be the hottest year on record. Click on:
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Will Global Average Temperatures for 2009-2011 be THE warmest on record? –>
Trade (in the 2010.GLOBALTEMP.WARMEST box)
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Bill Tuttle (22:17:11) :
“On Friday, Stars & Stripes carried a full-page “report” on AGW. According to the AP, this has been the warmest decade *evah*,”
Here’s a good comeback: But the last five years have been cooler than the prior five years.
(Would someone who knows the figures for the past ten years please post them, along with a link, to back this up?)
Earth is colling
Global hype on warming is not correct. The role of negligible Sunspot has roles to play in the temperature of the earth. It is requred to develop a global research group to study Sunspots and its effect on the earth. Please see some of the recent publications
Saumitra Mukherjee PhD
Professor, School of Environmental Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
INDIA
Mukherjee,S. (2009). Sun-Earth-cosmic connection to understand early
Warning of Earthquakes. Journal Earth Science India Vol.2 (II), April, 2009, pp. 83 – 93 http://www.earthscienceindia.info/
Mukherjee Saumitra. (2008).Cosmic Influence on Sun-Earth Environment. Sensors 2008, 8, 7736-7752; DOI: 10.3390/s8127736 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors
Mukherjee, S. (2007). Changes in Heliophysical parameter influence on Environment of the Earth. Bull.Astr.Soc.India (2007) 35, 1-7
Mukherjee, S. (2006). Influence of Starflare on the Sun-Earth environment and its Possible relationship with snowfall. EGGS Sciences Letter, (Germany) EGU, Issue no.14 pp. 14-17, ISSN 1027-6343, http://www.the-eggs.org