Disturbing Imagery Of Declining Summer Snowpack In Colorado

7 Responses to Disturbing Imagery Of Declining Summer Snowpack In Colorado

1. Eric Barnes says:

   June 5, 2011 at 5:10 am

   LOL 🙂 It’s crazy almost everywhere. The numbers from the snotel data are almost not to be believed. …

   http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/snowup-graph.pl?state=MT

   It’s easy to see if how an ice age could develop if this keeps up. Still snowing in higher elevations in MT.

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   • omnologos says:

     June 5, 2011 at 6:22 am

     Reminds me of the “snowblitz” hypothesis of William Colby (1978), Hubert Lamb and Alastair Woodroffe (1979), and Nicholas Shackleton (1985).

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2. Murray says:

   June 5, 2011 at 4:46 pm

   omnologos, thanks for that link
   http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/a-new-treasure-trove-of-1970s-global-cooling-articles/ Global cooling meme (consensus?) through 1970s, (25+ years after cooling started), fading to 1985, 10 years after warming started. Subsequently we started the global warming meme, with growing consensus at least through the early 2000s, with clear skeptical growth starting about 2003 and becoming significant by 2010, about 13 years after warming stopped. It may take another 7 or 8 years to get back to a global cooling consensus. Maybe by then we will get to a variable climate consensus?

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3. Eric Barnes says:

   June 5, 2011 at 7:01 pm

   Thanks Maurizio. Do you have a link to the paper or some original material? I’m having a hard time finding it?

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   • omnologos says:

     June 5, 2011 at 10:08 pm

     (it’s Maurizio here…under the wordpress cloak)

     Eric – those dates come from interviews and mentions published in an Italian national newspaper in the 1970s. It is highly unlikely that the journalists at the time would make up quotes, or invent English words.

     For example regarding Shackleton, at this link Nigel Calder talks about him and snowblitz for a TV documentary of 1974.

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     • Eric Barnes says:

       June 5, 2011 at 10:53 pm

       Too bad. 🙁
       It would make for interesting reading. 🙂
       Thanks!

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4. Theo Goodwin says:

   June 5, 2011 at 9:31 pm

   They retrodicted for it right after they predicted against it.

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