Just a little over a week ago here in Oklahoma in some places they were buried under two feet of snow with drifts of over four feet. Here where I live we got eleven inches. We also had the lowest temperatures ever recorded in Oklahoma. One little town, Nowata, OK hit a low of minus 31! Where I live it hit 20 below one morning about a week ago. Today we are in the sixties and tomorrow is forecast to be nearly eighty! That is nearly a hundred degrees difference in a little over a week! It's strange! Very strange!
There is no motivation to misrepresent the facts and science of global climate change unless you are a firm father figure conservative who believes it is their right and obligation to rape and pillage the planet for personal gain. Or a evil rich corporation like those run by the Koch Brothers and Exxon and Chevron, etc. Or both a conservative AND an evil rich person.
The models for man made global climate change predict increasingly extreme effects of the climate change on weather. So it will be colder and hotter in areas that have that weather. Places that have dry and wet seasons like California will have longer dry periods and more intense wet periods.
Since even small changes in weather (which is a result of the climate) can overwhelm public works (sewers, levees, dams, reservoirs, canals, etc.) we will likely see more and more damage and destruction over the course of the next few years.
Snowstorms in the US, cyclones in Australia, floods in Brazil and the UK, freezing temps in India - check out what's behind all this weird global weather: http://thealteredpress.com/2011/02/02/breaking-news-mother-nature-tries-to-kill-us-some-more/
I'm a little surprised how few people 'get it': Not only is this going to be the winter norm for America, but much worse is coming if we keep going down the path we are going. Do I know this for a fact? Of course not. But, given what we've seen so far, it would be unwise to bet against me.
Climatologists already predicted two major effects of global warming (aka climate change): 1)storms would be intensified (more precipitation aka snow), 2)sea levels would rise 3-6 ft in this century. Has it occurred to anyone out there that the scientists themselves were being conservative in their predictions? I've been monitoring this issue for 30 years and I can tell you this: climatologists, like all scientists, are inherently conservative in their predictions, and given the political environment around this issue, they have been especially conservative. Translation: we are all, all of us, in for a deadly ride, for which this winter is just a 'sampler' of what is coming. Buckle up and, yes, lets begin doing something about this issue. If the methane clasts and Arctic permafrosts begin giving up methane to a degree even the climatologists are reluctant to admit to: we're all dead, i.e. extinction. Admittedly, thats a long shot, but we really can't afford to err on the side of 'conservatism' any longer on this issue, no matter how happy it makes Exxon.
Nope, the biggest scandals in modern science were cold fusion and Hendrik Schoen's field-effect superconductivity.... BUT both of those were immediately outed as fraudulent by the scientific community. The difference here is that the scientific community still agrees on climate change, and the emails contained no evidence of scientific fraud.
The Earth System Research Laboratory run by the Physical Sciences Division of NOAA has a great graphing tool for many climate related datasets: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
I saw a few comments about all the excess moisture in the atmosphere due to global warming that is causing all the snow. Please go and plot specific and relative atmospheric humidity at various altitudes. When you see that the plots of real data don't agree with the statements made in the media about excess moisture in the atmosphere due to global warming, you'll begin to realize they are talking about the climate models and not real data. They so much want to believe what the models tell them regardless of what the real data shows.
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Since even small changes in weather (which is a result of the climate) can overwhelm public works (sewers, levees, dams, reservoirs, canals, etc.) we will likely see more and more damage and destruction over the course of the next few years.
http://thealteredpress.com/2011/02/02/breaking-news-mother-nature-tries-to-kill-us-some-more/
Not me.
Climatologists already predicted two major effects of global warming (aka climate change): 1)storms would be intensified (more precipitation aka snow), 2)sea levels would rise 3-6 ft in this century. Has it occurred to anyone out there that the scientists themselves were being conservative in their predictions? I've been monitoring this issue for 30 years and I can tell you this: climatologists, like all scientists, are inherently conservative in their predictions, and given the political environment around this issue, they have been especially conservative. Translation: we are all, all of us, in for a deadly ride, for which this winter is just a 'sampler' of what is coming. Buckle up and, yes, lets begin doing something about this issue. If the methane clasts and Arctic permafrosts begin giving up methane to a degree even the climatologists are reluctant to admit to: we're all dead, i.e. extinction. Admittedly, thats a long shot, but we really can't afford to err on the side of 'conservatism' any longer on this issue, no matter how happy it makes Exxon.
I saw a few comments about all the excess moisture in the atmosphere due to global warming that is causing all the snow. Please go and plot specific and relative atmospheric humidity at various altitudes. When you see that the plots of real data don't agree with the statements made in the media about excess moisture in the atmosphere due to global warming, you'll begin to realize they are talking about the climate models and not real data. They so much want to believe what the models tell them regardless of what the real data shows.