In central Alabama we have had 2 measurable snows within 5-1/2 weeks. The first, Dec 9-10, was about 2 inches. Since it was on a weekend, not too much trouble. The latest, January 16-17, gave 4 inches of snow and icey roads and bridges. Interstate travel is stalled, and local streets are hit or miss. I'm off work for a "snow day"! I have lived in my house for 21 years, and have never had 2 measurable snows the same cold season. Total measurable snowfall over that same time has been less than 10 occurrences. I know you guys that get snow every year think this is trivial, but it is a "treat" for us, since it melts quickly. So much for global warming, huh?

That’s why they changed the name to climate change!

Well the liberals think that all the evaporated water caused by global warming now will turn to snow.

We should nickname liberals "tops" because they spin things so much.

Not to worry - this is only the beginning: http://dailym.ai/1eNkdVh

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Not to worry - this is only the beginning: http://dailym.ai/1eNkdVh

Yep. I have read the very same thing.

Algore will be along shortly to explain all.

RMD

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Originally posted by rduckwor:

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Not to worry - this is only the beginning: http://dailym.ai/1eNkdVh

Yep. I have read the very same thing.

Algore will be along shortly to explain all.

RMD

No no, you don't understand. Yes, it is a paradox, but global warming can trigger a cooling trend. Let me explain. The Northern Hemisphere owes its climate to the North Atlantic Current. Heat from the sun arrives at the equator and is carried north by the ocean. But global warming is melting the polar ice caps and disrupting this flow. Eventually it will shut down. And when that occurs, there goes our warm climate.

See! Global warming is what's causing it to snow in Alabama.

(Ok, maybe I've seen The Day After Tomorrow one too many times.)

So I am as much a climate "denier" as anyone. I don't believe that CO2 from humans has any significant effect on the climate. I think climate is changed by the sun and maybe some other natural factors like the earth's crust and stuff like that.

Nevertheless we don't do ourselves any favors arguing it based on cold temperatures in certain areas at certain times. Balze Halze post isn't really far from true. Climate does weird shit all the time. It being cold in Alabama is no more an indication of a coming ice age than warm temps in Canada is an indication of global warming.

We do ourselves a disservice by using this type of argument. More than anything it gives the left a better argument that we are ignorant.

Okay, off my high horse. Am I being too serious for this thread?

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/BB0aFPXr4n4

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHAOS! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

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Originally posted by frayedends:...Climate does weird shit all the time. It being cold in Alabama is no more an indication of a coming ice age than warm temps in Canada is an indication of global warming....

Wrong. All climate change for eons is the fault of white capitalist males using carbon based fuels. Now have a drink of this industrial strength kool-aid and you will start to understand.

(My Berkeley neighbor assures man-made global warming is as proven science as the law of gravity. )

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Not to worry - this is only the beginning: http://dailym.ai/1eNkdVh

Yahoo!!! Snow in Miami

Climate been changing since there has been a climate.
If it keeps cooling, do we get large wooly critters back too?

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

I can’t read the words without singing the tune in my head. Now it’s stuck there.

Someday, quite soon geologically - perhaps some Fall, or Winter, or even Spring - it will begin to snow, and it will not stop. It has always done so, after the seas filled, and perhaps always will, for the life of the planet. Perhaps this is always the case for water planets. This is one of the Great Filters, the trifling and temporary presence of any species, the flatulence of prehistoric giants nor the piddling emissions of the late-evolved apes notwithstanding.

and ! and!
Three weeks ago , my brother and his wife , ( from Iowa), went down there to spend two months away from the Iowa frozen tundra

Hows that working for ya?

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV)--- Wisconsin isn't alone when it comes to the cold and snow. The latest blast of wintry weather brought accumulations as far south as the Gulf Coast! Wednesday morning started off with snow cover in all 50 states and 52.3 percent of the country covered in the white stuff.



To have snow on the ground in all 50 states at the same time, is a fairly rare feat. The last time all 50 states had snowfall on the ground at the same time was on February 12th, 2010.

A little known fact about Hawaii is that it often snows. Of course, that is always on the Big Island's Mauna Kea volcanic peak. Typically, the hardest state to get accumulating snowfall is Florida. This season has already featured three snowfall events in northern Florida!

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And then there's this drivel from France24 and Reuters.

Pure fantasy as far as I'm concerned.

Last three years were hottest on record, says UN weather agency

Latest update : 2018-01-18

Last year was the second or third warmest on record behind 2016, and the hottest without an extra dose of heat caused by an El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Average surface temperatures in 2017 were 1.1 degree Celsius (2.0 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, creeping towards a 1.5C (2.7F) ceiling set as the most ambitious limit for global warming by almost 200 nations under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Last year was indistinguishable, so far, from 2015 as the second or third warmest behind 2016, making 2017 “the warmest year without an El Niño”, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.

Temperatures in both 2016 and 2015 were lifted by an El Niño, a natural event which can disrupt weather patterns worldwide every few years and releases heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere.

“When even the ‘colder’ years are rewriting the warmest year record books, we know we have a problem,” said Professor Dave Reay, chair in carbon management at the University of Edinburgh.

Seventeen of the warmest 18 years since records began in the 19th century have now happened since 2000, confirming that ever more greenhouse gases are driving up temperatures, the WMO said.

Among extreme weather events last year, the Caribbean and the United States suffered a battering from hurricanes, the Arctic ended 2017 with the least sea ice for mid-winter and tropical coral reefs suffered from high water temperatures.

“Arctic warmth has been especially pronounced and this will have profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Talaas said in a statement.

The findings, which match a projection by the WMO in November, now have full-year data including from NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Britain’s Met Office with the University of East Anglia.

In the United States alone, weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, especially western wildfires and hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma, NOAA said last week.

The 2015 Paris agreement, which seeks to shift the world economy from fossil fuels this century, aims to limit temperatures to “well below” a rise of 2C above pre-industrial times while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5C.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who doubts climate change is caused by man-made emissions, plans to quit the Paris accord.

A leaked draft of a U.N. scientific report shows that warming is on track to breach the 1.5C goal set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement by mid-century, unless governments make unprecedented economic shifts from fossil fuels.

(REUTERS)

Date created : 2018-01-18

http://www.france24.com/en/201...n-wmo-global-warming