I took my team of intrepid researchers out to explore Chesapeake Bay ice this afternoon, and my very worst fears were realized. It is all first year ice, and unlikely to survive through the summer.
The dire consequence of this is that Maryland Polar Bears will have to swim for miles to avoid having to pay tolls on the bridge.
As big a problem as Polar Bears are in Maryland, I would be more worried about rats crossing the ice.
If this trend continues, the ice is unlikely to make it through the weekend………
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/574296457970233344
…….and by next Wednesday, Maryland will be hotter than the surface of Venus.
Be very alarmed.
We can’t explain the lack of ice in Chesapeake Bay in the Summer and it’s a travesty that we can’t.
Very good.
But they keep saying the rate of sea level rise there portends disaster!
My 7 1/2 month old explorer companion just got spayed yesterday so is not up for much outside fun, though she sure thinks she is until she moves wrong and whimpers a little. Right now she is beside me in a window seat with a south exposure dozing in a sunbeam. Perfect place for her as she recovers.
She’s our third Cocker and is a wonderful loving pup. Chocolate Merle with white markings.
On the plus side, they can stop at the plazas for a Cinnabun or crab cake.
Or they could head on down to the White house for a snack….
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxTNoMWHgMU/UL0P1EeEwcI/AAAAAAAACqI/l0D3xizb7cY/s400/PolarBearsEating.jpg
Well. They never show people that when they want them to feel sorry for the poor, cuddly polar bears.
Ozone Forecast shows that winter will not abandon so quickly the northern-eastern US.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_toz_nh_f120.gif
The edge of the yellow area shows the course of the jet stream.
Honestly cannot think of a group who need the dose of reality that this winter will continue to bring more.
California?
Scientific American again. CO2 levels for Feb measure at 400 ppm at Mauna Loa Observatory.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/co2-levels-for-february-eclipsed-prehistoric-highs/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-win-friends-and-bamboozle-people-about-climate-change/
Note that all skeptical comments on SciAm comment threads are quickly removed. Shameful. I am cancelling my subscription once and for all. I have ben reading this magazine since the 1960’s, when my librarian aunt used to bring me old issues as the library discarded them. I gave up on it a few times, only to relent and buy a subscription again, but no more.
Enough is enough.
I know how you feel. I grew up on National Geographic, gave up on it, then Smithsonian, can’t stand any of them now and forget a newspaper.
I just about lived in the library through jr high and high school. When we moved during my Freshman year I made Dad promise me a subscription to any mags not carried by the new high school’s library. He bought a subscription to Analog but I had to wait for him to finish reading it before I got my chance. The Mom grabbed it.
That is true. Another article comes up on my feed. SA is non-stop Global Warming alarm.
“they acknowledge the potential for error” lol
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-sea-ice-is-getting-thinner-faster/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
Obviously, you’re off in the East. Today’s (Sat, 7 March) Denver Post has an incredible article about Ft. Collins. “The city will spend $600 million to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.”
Strongly advise you not drink the water when you get back; obviously a strong hallucinogenic therein.
” ‘This will be very, very costly. It will require sacrifices and willingness to pay’ Ft. Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat said. We haven’t laid out how specifically to achieve it.”
Steve, presumably you were making a parody about this:
The day before yesterday: when abrupt climate change came to the Chesapeake Bay [climate.gov]
Sorry, link didn’t work.
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/day-yesterday-when-abrupt-climate-change-came-chesapeake-bay
The Capital Weather Gang stated that there has not been this much ice on Chesapeake Bay so late in the season since 1780. If it somehow survives ths summer, we are all in big trouble!
I’ll worry about that when and if it happens.
Is that a Standard Poodle?