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Twitter / billmckibben: Drought worsening in every …

McKitten cures the drought!

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie

h/t to Marc Morano

As the World Warms, the Future of Skiing Looks Bleak

By 2050, Sierra Nevada winter snowpack may have decreased by as much as 70 percent from average levels of today; in the Rockies, the elevation of full winter snow cover may increase from 7,300 feet today to 10,300 feet by the year 2100; in Aspen, the ski season could retreat at both ends by a total of almost two months; and throughout the Western United States, average snow depths could decline by anywhere between 25 and—yep—100 percent.

These, of course, are just visions of wintertime future produced by climatologists and their computers

As the World Warms, the Future of Skiing Looks Bleak | Off the Road

Had these geniuses bothered to look at actual data, they would know that winter snow extent is increasing

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

One might also remember that Texas had their snowiest winter on record last year. as did Alaska and much of Europe. Being a successful climate scientist requires that you don’t understand the limitations of computer hardware or software. A computer model is not an excuse for being a moron.

The reason why Arctic sea ice summer minimums have been low recently is because there is a lot less thick multi-year ice than there was 20 years ago.

Experts say that this confirms global warming, but it has little to do with it. Most multi-year ice is lost during the winter, not the summer. The ice gets blown by strong winter winds out into the North Atlantic, where it melts. During the winters from 1988-1996, most of the multi-year ice was lost.

People who get hysterical about the location of the ice edge in September, are complete morons.

A few years ago the alarmist story went like this :

Greenland was warmer during the 1940s, but the current warming is on the Alaska/Siberia side as well.

Now that Alaska is cooling and experiencing record sea ice, the part of the story which remains is

Greenland was warmer during the 1940s

Twitter / billmckibben: And all it took was Sandy–80% …

The “consensus” says Sandy had nothing to do with global warming, but McKibben has never been interested in science anyway.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie

In 2011, The Huffington Post reported that lower Manhattan flooded during an 1821 hurricane.

1821 HURRICANE Reaching the City on September 3, 1821, the storm was one of the only hurricanes believed to have passed directly over parts of modern New York City. The tide rose 13 feet in one hour and inundated wharves, causing the East River to converge into the Hudson River across lower Manhattan as far north as Canal Street.

Long Island Hurricane Of 1821: Does This Path Look Familiar? (MAPS)

Temperatures in the Arctic are about -30C, and scientists have an ingenious plan to make it cold enough to freeze ice.

Could we refreeze the Arctic? Scientists suggest radical solution to global warming | Mail Online

In 1975, scientists wanted to melt the Arctic to stop climate change.

denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf