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A PhD climate scientist from New Zealand says record hot Arctic air can produce record cold temperatures in the US.

2:54 AM · Dec 21, 2022

I’m not sure if I should freeze food in the oven, or cook it in the freezer.

Their lawnmower must have been broken.

“The home was in many ways a Cowboy State socialist utopia

It’s just really hard to support a property of that size when you have people coming and going

The 5,733-square-foot collective home is now on the market for $830,000.”

Woman Who Built Socialist LGBTQ Commune In Laramie Calls It Quits, Selling Compound – Cowboy State Daily

Puppies sleeping warm and safe inside a fossil fuel powered house – with wind chills outside of -40F.

“WORD comes from Switzerland that the Alpine glaciers are in full retreat. Out of 102 glaciers observed by Professor P.L. Mercanton of the University of Lausanne and his associates more than two thirds have been found to be shrinking.”

TimesMachine: December 21, 1930 – NYTimes.com

Last year CNN said global warming was making it too warm for snow at Christmas. This year they say Christmas will be the coldest in nearly 40 years.

How your odds of a white Christmas have changed | CNN

Christmas weather forecast: The first week of winter brings snow and bitterly cold temperatures | CNN

An interesting X-Files episode, presented as fiction at the time.

From 2012 :

“from today’s Australian newspaper.  I’d like to revisit this thread in 2020 and see how we’re going.”

“people like Professor Pickering should sign a deal that says if their predictions are totally wrong (like by 2020 in her case), they have to say sorry to everyone and quit their jobs”

Here we go again (global warming) | BOARDWORLD Forums | Australia’s Premier Boardsports Community

End of Australian snow in sight – Griffith News

“Greenland’s Glaciers Might Be Melting 100 Times As Fast As Previously Thought

A computer model has been created by researchers at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin that determines the rate at which Greenland’s glacier fronts are melting.”

Greenland’s Glaciers Might Be Melting 100 Times As Fast As Previously Thought – UT News

Greenland’s largest glacier is growing for the first time since at least 1850.

Jakobshavn Glacier Grows for Third Straight Year – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

“Observations of the Alpine glaciers during a series of years have supplied proof that these great ice streams have long been in prove of recession. Similar evidence with regard to the Greenland glaciers has not been collected over & wile area, though Dr, M. C. Engell, of Copenhagen, who visited the Jakobshavn glacier last summer, has made a collection of facts which seems to show conclusively that the glaciers of Greenland are also receding.

Scientific American: Supplement – Google Books

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 14, 14-25

The press announced the end of snow in Britain in the year 2000.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian

Then they announced the end of snow in Britain in 2020.

Climate change: Snowy UK winters could become thing of the past – BBC News

Ten years ago the press announced the end of snow in Australia by the year 2020.

“ENVIRONMENTAL researchers say the end of Australia’s ski culture is in sight, despite Victoria and NSW experiencing one of their best snow seasons in almost a decade.

People were still shredding up powder last weekend at some of Australia’s top ski resorts, but Griffith associate professor Catherine Pickering says snow is rapidly disappearing because of global warming and by 2020 Australia may not have any left.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nation/enjoy-snow-now—-by-2020-itll-be-gone/

Five years ago the press announced the end of snow in Australia

Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope

In 2020, Australian Geographic announced the end of snow.

The end of snow – Australian Geographic

This year there was “almost too much snow.”

‘There’s almost too much snow’: Snowfall breaks 44-year record on Queen’s Birthday long weekend