Brutal Mid-Atlantic Winters Here to Stay?

The storm is literally exploding right now - pulling moisture from the ocean and dropping it on the Mid-Atlantic and parts of New England as snow, reports Early Show weather anchor Dave Price.

Blizzard conditions are expected in some areas until the morning when the storm spins out to the Atlantic.

Thursday will be very windy with gusts as high as 45 miles per hour.

Snow Accumulations

The total snowfall in many areas will be more than a foot of snow. That's on top of the more than two feet of snow that buried parts of the Mid-Atlantic last week.

Broken Records

This winter is the snowiest on record in many places - forehead-high snowfall in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington.

Latest Snow Pushes D.C. Past Winter Record

Weather Pattern

It's been a stormy winter for the Mid-Atlantic. There's no single reason but a major influence has been a cooler Pacific Ocean.

That's pushing cold air from Canada deep into the United States.

Storms are tracking along the jet stream toward the Mid-Atlantic states rather than along the Eastern seaboard.

The pattern could stick around for years.

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by chevyhotrod February 11, 2010 11:53 AM EST

Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.





LOL!!!!! I looked this up. The journal refused to publish his work, citing questionable methodology.

[troutfishyman]

by chevyhotrod February 11, 2010 11:36 AM EST

A poll does not prove a thing.



So why do you continue to post the Inhofe poll over and over and over?

[troutfishyman]

Over eight out of ten American climate scientists believe that human activity contributes to global warming, according to a new survey released by the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University. The researchers also report that belief in human-induced warming has more than doubled since the last major survey of American climate scientists in 1991.

The survey, which was conducted for STATS by Harris Interactive, also found increased concern among climate scientists since the Gallup organization asked them many of the same questions in 1991.

[chevyhotrod]

"climate scientists believe that human activity contributes to global warming"

Very tricky question, the answer to this is an obvious yes, the main point is how much?

Every time a human breaths they contribute to global warming by emitting CO2.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but what is the total amount of CO2 in our atmosphere? What was it 100 years ago? What are the other factors? The list goes on and on and on.

Is Dr. Joanne Simpson a denier also? (please answer this question)

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly. As a scientist I remain skeptical. - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.

[chevyhotrod]

SURVEY: LESS THAN HALF OF ALL PUBLISHED SCIENTISTS ENDORSE GLOBAL WARMING THEORY; COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF PUBLISHED CLIMATE RESEARCH REVEALS CHANGING VIEWPOINTS

Michael Asher
August 29, 2007 11:07 AM
In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.

Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."

The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the "primary" cause of warming, but it doesn't require any belief or support for "catastrophic" global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

[troutfishyman]

Survey: Scientists agree human-induced global warming is real

While the harsh winter pounding many areas of North America and Europe seemingly contradicts the fact that global warming continues unabated, a new survey finds consensus among scientists about the reality of climate change and its likely cause.

A group of 3,146 earth scientists surveyed around the world overwhelmingly agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising, and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.

Peter Doran, University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, along with former graduate student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, conducted the survey late last year.

The findings appear today in the publication Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union.

In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 edition of the American Geological Institute's Directory of Geoscience Departments.

Experts in academia and government research centers were e-mailed invitations to participate in the on-line poll conducted by the website questionpro.com. Only those invited could participate and computer IP addresses of participants were recorded and used to prevent repeat voting. Questions used were reviewed by a polling expert who checked for bias in phrasing, such as suggesting an answer by the way a question was worded. The nine-question survey was short, taking just a few minutes to complete.

Two questions were key: have mean global temperatures risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and has human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.

About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second.

In analyzing responses by sub-groups, Doran found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role. Petroleum geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 and 64 percent respectively believing in human involvement. Doran compared their responses to a recent poll showing only 58 percent of the public thinks human activity contributes to global warming.

[chevyhotrod]

Debate over, you win. LOL

Again, please list the scientist name, affiliation, education and their quotes and the date the quotes were made.

A poll does not prove a thing. Where is the data, raw data the proves their theories?

[troutfishyman]

chevyhotrod


The survey has been debunked over and over. You just look ignorant by continuing to post it.

[chevyhotrod]

Debunked because you say so, I don't think so.

By calling me ignorant does not change the facts that the people on the list are leaders in their fields and have hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies proving that what you are promoting is a fraud.

All I am doing is posting information that will allow others to make up their own minds because the main stream media does not report it.

Again, where is your list of scientist?

[chevyhotrod]

The Next Climate-gate?

The global warming scandal keeps getting worse. Revelations over the few weeks show that many important assertions in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were based on misquotes and false claims from environmental groups, not on published academic research as it was originally presented. This is on top of the recent mess regarding data, where the three most relied-on data series used by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessment report still have not been released. Other data simply never seem to have existed or cannot be provided to other scientists.

In a January 29 report, they find that starting in 1990, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began systematically eliminating climate measuring stations in cooler locations around the world. Yes, that's right. They began eliminating stations that tended to record cooler temperatures and drove up the average measured temperature. The eliminated stations had been in higher latitudes and altitudes, inland areas away from the sea, as well as more rural locations. The drop in the number of weather stations was dramatic, declining from more than 6,000 stations to fewer than 1,500.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/02/09/john-lott-joseph-daleo-climate-change-noaa-james-hansen/

[troutfishyman]

But then, what else would you expect from a survey paid for by republican Senator Inhofe?

[chevyhotrod]

Funny how you think people will put their carriers in jeopardy for some stupid Senator.

Facts and Data will win the day. Not fake ones or people unwilling to allow the scientific community to review their work.

[chevyhotrod]

Citing the far-left Union of Concerned Scientists, she highlighted their claim that ?ExxonMobil gave almost $16 million over seven years to denier groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute.? But as Marc Morano, of the minority staff of the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works, disclosed in a posting, ?proponents of man-made global warming have been funded to the tune of $50 BILLION in the last decade or so,? not even counting the impact of one-sided media reporting, ?while skeptics have received a paltry $19 MILLION.?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2007/08/16/nbc-nightly-news-joins-newsweek-smearing-global-warming-deniers

[troutfishyman]

by chevyhotrod February 11, 2010 9:08 AM EST
Keep an open mind as should anyone when dealing with science. That is what science is all about.

More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over
Man-Made Global Warming Claims




An analysis was done that showed less than 10% of the people on the list were climate scientists.

[chevyhotrod]

Analysis? by whom? You? or Al Gore? It only takes one that can disprove a theory with actual data and facts.

Is Dr. Joanne Simpson a denier also?

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly. As a scientist I remain skeptical. - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.

[chevyhotrod]

Keep an open mind as should anyone when dealing with science. That is what science is all about.

More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over
Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Scientists Continue to Debunk ?Consensus? in 2008 &
2009

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9

Just a small example;

?I am a skeptic?Global warming has become a new religion.? - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly?.As a scientist I remain skeptical.? - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called ?among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.?

Warming fears are the ?worst scientific scandal in the history?When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.? - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

?It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don?t buy into anthropogenic global warming.? - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

?Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.? ? . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

?For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden

?Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.? - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

?CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another?.Every scientist knows this, but it doesn?t pay to say so?Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver?s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.? - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6

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BUSH DID IT