Maybe in 20 years there is no Alpine skiing anymore, no low ski resort anymore, so what we do is we diversify.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/16/climate.change.alps/?hpt=C2
Some articles are too stupid to even waste any time commenting.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow
“We’ve had quite an intense increase in hurricane activity,” said Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “We may be in this cycle for another 20 years.” “Storms are not just making landfall and going away the way they did in the past,” Trenberth said. “Somehow these storms are able to live longer today.”
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/hurricanes/2008-10-21-weather_N.htm
Since he made that forecast, no hurricanes have struck the US. Landfalling hurricanes have been on the decline for almost 150 years.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt
Chris Landsea was also quoted in the article.
These are likely due to a natural climate fluctuation in the Atlantic,” Landsea has said evidence that global warming is affecting hurricanes “is pretty darn tiny.“
h/t to Marc Morano
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24688.html?MR=1
See if he can extrapolate enough warmth to avoid frostbite.
The most intense rainfall on record occurred in Missouri in 1947, with CO2 at 325 ppm.
http://test.crh.noaa.gov/eax/?n=holtmorecrain1947
But has he thought through the serious problem of reindeer emissions?
Boris Johnson (who last year saved Franny Armstrong from being beaten up by schoolgirls) is touting Piers Corbyn horn now.
Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.
Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its “mild winter” schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years. Indeed, it was back in May that he first predicted a snowy December, and he put his own money on a white Christmas about a month before the Met Office made any such forecast. He said that the Met Office would be wrong about last year’s mythical “barbecue summer”, and he was vindicated. He was closer to the truth about last winter, too.
He seems to get it right about 85 per cent of the time and serious business people – notably in farming – are starting to invest in his forecasts. In the eyes of many punters, he puts the taxpayer-funded Met Office to shame. How on earth does he do it? He studies the Sun.
h/t to Amino
Reporter demonstrates that rats are more intelligent than reporters.
Rodents foretell a brutal winter, climate change
By LEWIS W. DIUGUID
The Kansas City Star
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It seemed that the invasion was more of a foretelling of a fierce winter ahead. What the mice were telling me in the late summer and early fall seems incredibly accurate.
The last couple of weeks have been brutal with temperatures falling to single digits. We got hammered last year, too, with a lot of cold and snow.
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Another possible hard winter, however, adds to skeptical feelings about whether global warming exists. The extremes we’re facing are part of climate change with temperatures creeping upward planetwide.
The greenhouse gas effect causes areas to experience more extreme weather conditions. That means hotter summers and colder winters with more precipitation. When I was in Europe last month, it rained and hailed every day. Residents said such weather had never happened, and they blamed it on climate change as the planet grows warmer.
NASA scientists reported recently that December 2009 through November 2010 was the warmest meteorological year in the 131 years of record keeping. The planet’s average temperature was 58.32 degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s why the United Nations global climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, this month, was so important. The agreement to limit greenhouse emissions offered some hope that the escalating problems caused by climate change eventually will be brought under control.
The enormity of the pact and the problem is a far cry from my little mouse troubles. But what’s happening locally is tied to what’s coming globally.
I got rid of my critter problem and sealed up the holes. But the bigger worry is the planet and getting more people to believe.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/19/2531323/rodents-foretell-a-brutal-winter.html
