On Jan 5, 6:05*pm, (Don Klipstein) wrote:
In article , Master Betty wrote:

"Frank" wrote in message
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On 1/5/2010 8:23 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
This is supposed to be "The South", it's 15° F at 7:00 am
in Birmingham, AL. There are some valleys in the area that
I know are a lot colder. Darn Canadian imports, y'all just
had to stick that cold tongue out at us. I've heard it called
The Alberta Express. BRRRRRRRR!

TDD

The Global warming alarmists will tell you that weather extremes are
caused by global warming

True....We're having an unusually cold winter and last summer was the
hottest on record. Weird. I hope we never have another summer like the last
one. This cold weather is a nice change. Not good for citrus farmers though.

* It appears to me that 90% of the $#!+ that has happened with weather in
recent years is blamed on global warming in the news media but appears to
me to be merely $#!+ that happens with weather along lines of what it has
always done.


That's because you aren't looking for grant money for a research
project.

* For example, I have seen global warming being blamed for more intense
snowstorms in "Northeast Corridor" USA in recent years. *I see that uptick
being caused by how ocean temperature patterns in the North Pacific have
been in recent years, as affected mostly by the decadal (period over a
decade, closer to a couple decades) and multidecadal (period ~60 year
ballpark) components of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

* When that pattern shifts to something else, it will be somewhere else's
turn to get bad winter weather.

* (Also - I expect global temperatures to be taking a break from the
rising trend from a few years ago to around 2030, due to another natural
cycle - the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (period around 65 years).

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US Weather Bureau Report
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in
some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a
report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at
Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he
declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and
hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration
expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far
north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters
showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been
replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while
at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few
seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast
shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far
north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.


I am sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from November
2, 1922 as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post.
For a complete background read extensive reports at
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/1...icebergs-melt/