In 1949, the first illegal aliens arrived in Roswell, New Mexico.
More recently, New Mexico has been plagued by an endemic alien problem common throughout the west – the carpetbagging progressive Udall. (Here in Colorado we recently exterminated our Udall, but New Mexico still has one on the loose.) Senator Tom Udall is convinced that all of the trees in New Mexico are doomed, as are winter sports.
Roswell is expecting their largest snowfall on record today, 12+ inches with 20 inches expected over the next two days.
That would beat the 1988 record one day snowfall.
The forecast storm total would make this the fifth snowiest year on record in Roswell, where snowfall has been increasing since the 1950’s.
The permanent drought appears brutal at nearby Ski Apache. I’ll be keeping an eye on it today as the drought progresses.
Just north of the New Mexico border, Wolf Creek Ski Area in Colorado was closed yesterday – due to too much snow.
Our top scientists at the IPCC say that heavy snowstorms will decrease due to global warming.
And Britain’s top scientists say that children just won’t know what snow is.
Monday 20 March 2000
the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. 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.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent
Life, as we know it, is OVER,
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Nice one, Gail.
Tony, I wish you could send some of that snow this way, to Virginia. We had record high temperatures for Christmas. And wait, is that weather or climate, I forget…..?
I sympathize with you. I’m having trouble myself keeping up with climate science innovations. The safest rule in the weather vs. climate determination is this:
If a weather event supports the AGW hypothesis or can be used to do so in the media then it is climate. If it’s impossible or too outrageous to make that claim then it is just a random weather event that means nothing and must be ignored.
There is one caveat though: A clear trend in climate science has been observed to classify mere weather events as consistent with a warming climate. That happened as the scientists realized that rising CO2 causes everything: warming and cooling, flood and drought, warmer and colder Great Lakes, less and more snow, decrease and increase in sea ice, glacier advance and retreat, less or more crime, etc.
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H/T to IceAgeNow
“… the scientists realized that rising CO2 causes everything…”
Grantologists have identified the “God Particle”. CO2 is omnipotent.
It’s A Gas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-LvMxKvFY
I’ll be out there in a week. The snow and cold normally follows me.
Oeman50,
Your winter is coming according to the models. The whole Pattern is going to flip east to west and your more than likely going to get plenty of cold and snow for the first quarter of 2016 while those in the west and in particular the NW US that are getting slammed right now are going have warmer than normal temps during that period. It’s starting to work it’s way across the south right now as the models predicted with Blizzard warnings in NW Texas and :
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/newsstory/2015/650x366_12260944_hd37.jpg
And it’s going to come across the south and up the east coast with colder than normal temps reaching up to NYC.
We here in Central Indiana have flood watches and warnings out already even though the rain hasn’t hit yet. It’s going to be a very wet couple of days for us it looks like.
That’s good to hear, rah. We have so much warming in the NW right now the passes are closed and the lower elevations are drowning in drought. Not to fear though. Gov Inslee has promised to save us with taxes and regulation.
Emotions, not rational thought, rules the world today.
The last paragraph of Aston’s 1922 Noble Lecture on energy (E) stored as mass (m) in cores of atoms expresses:
1. Rational HOPE &
2. Irrational FEARS
The survival instinct drove mankind to adopt post-WWII policies based on fear, rather than hopes.
Steve, the link to the Independent’s hilarious piece no longer works as the article has been taken off the net.
Fortunately however, Anthony Watts has preserved the piece for posterity here:
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-the-independent.pdf
Happy Christmas!
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Al Gore desperately hoping deniers don’t archive falsified predictions.
He’s probably regretting that he ever invented the internet about now…
A bit of true history on the Roswell UFO myth for Tony’s followers. My father was in part responsible for this nonsense. The supposed UFO crash remains Brazel found on June 14, 1947 were almost certainly the remains of failed MOGUL stratospheric test flight 4 (finally declassified in 1992). This was a series of tethered together modified weather balloons for meteorological research, plus looking for radiation signatures from possible Soviet nuc bomb tests. Each weather balloon carried a ML307B/AP radar reflector tracking target, designed and patented (US 2462102) by my USAF father, and whose construction involved balsa wood with scotch tape joint reinforcements just like Brazel found. But since the program was classified, nobody in the know could explain the truth, so the Roswell myth grew over decades all the way into the movie Independence Day.
And I though my buddy was bad….
While in the Air force he liked to fly a kite at night. To be able to see where the kite was he attached LEDs. After the first flight his commander required him to let the base know when he was going to go kite flying
It is still more exciting to believe in aliens.
+1
Udall is an arrogant jerk. I will definitely be voting against him next time he is on the ballot. Right now its snowing pretty steadily in the Albuquerque foothills.