The academic world was stunned by Climategate. This is another piece of
the fallout.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...05930310700065
6.html?KEYWORDS=climate+study+gets+review

The Wall Street Journal, 12 February 2010, page A15.

Joe Gwinn

On Feb 12, 8:46*am, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
The academic world was stunned by Climategate. *This is another piece of
the fallout.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...05930310700065
6.html?KEYWORDS=climate+study+gets+review

The Wall Street Journal, 12 February 2010, page A15.

Joe Gwinn

Yeah...the WSJ...definitely NOT a neutral source.

Too bad you don't know what you are talking about.

Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse

Need proof?

Get the heck outside and shovel the proof off your sidewalk.

Laugh...laugh...laugh...

TMT


D.C. Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse
By BRYAN WALSH Bryan Walsh
Wed Feb 10, 7:30 am ET


As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready
to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they
may
stop to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a
snow
blower and, also, what happened to climate change? After all, it
stands to reason that if the world is getting warmer - and the past
decade was the hottest on record - major snowstorms should become a
thing of the past, like Palm Pilots and majority rule in the Senate.
Certainly that's what the Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the
GOP aired an ad last weekend attacking two Democratic Congressmen for
supporting the 2009 carbon-cap-and-trade bill, and using the recent
storms to cast doubt on global warming. (See pictures of a massive
blizzard hitting Washington, D.C.)


Brace yourselves now - this may be a case of politicians twisting the
facts. There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make
such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to
warm. As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent
blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this winter - in
December and during the first weekend of February - are already among
the 10 heaviest snowfalls those cities have ever recorded. The chance
of that happening in the same winter is incredibly unlikely.


But there have been hints that it was coming. The 2009 U.S. Climate
Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have
gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years.
While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased
as
the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased.
That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more
moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of
snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly
vicious
cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast
during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall.
(See pictures of the effects of global warming.)


Climate models also suggest that while global warming may not make
hurricanes more common, it could well intensify the storms that do
occur and make them more destructive.


But as far as winter storms go, shouldn't climate change make it too
warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen - but
probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be
supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains
below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter
rainstorms. And while the mid-Atlantic has borne the brunt of the
snowfall so far this winter, areas near lakes may get hit even worse.
As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the
Great
Lakes has shrunk, which has led to even more moisture in the
atmosphere and more snow in the already hard-hit Great Lakes region,
according to a 2003 study in the Journal of Climate. (Read "Climate
Accord Suggests a Global Will, if Not a Way.")


Ultimately, however, it's a mistake to use any one storm - or even a
season's worth of storms - to disprove climate change (or to prove
it;
some environmentalists have wrongly tied the lack of snow in
Vancouver, the site of the Winter Olympic Games, which begin this
month, to global warming). Weather is what will happen next weekend;
climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries. And
while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably
reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make
accurate projections about the future of the global climate. Of
course, that doesn't help you much when you're trying to locate your
car under a foot of powder.

On Feb 12, 8:46*am, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
The academic world was stunned by Climategate. *This is another piece of
the fallout.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...05930310700065
6.html?KEYWORDS=climate+study+gets+review

The Wall Street Journal, 12 February 2010, page A15.

Joe Gwinn

LOL...another piece of evidence that global warming is doing a number
on the climate.

Snow in all 50 states? New storm could make that true.
By Patrik Jonsson Patrik Jonsson
2 hrs 15 mins ago

Atlanta – Three hundred plow trucks are lined up to combat an
afternoon rush-hour snowstorm in Georgia, including traffic-congested
Atlanta. In Mobile, Ala., kids are poised for a rare snowball fight.
And fat flakes are already falling in Blountstown, Fla.

This has been one of the most bizarre winters of the new century, with
storm after storm slamming the East Coast in particular. And now, a
storm that dropped a foot of snow Thursday on Dallas – Dallas! – could
help bring about the presence of snow in all 50 states.

That’s if the storm delivers a few inches, as expected, in parts of
north Florida. If that indeed happens, meteorologists at AccuWeather
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say
they expect some coverage in all 50 states.

(In case you’re wondering, some of the tallest peaks in Hawaii have
snow sprinkled on them.)

“By the time the storm ends, we may be looking at a truly historic
snow cover map to open up the weekend,” AccuWeather.com’s Joe Lundberg
writes.

This winter’s white legacy has inspired at least one meteorological
project.

"On Friday afternoon, I'm going to begin asking for photos of the
snow," Patrick Marsh, a student employee at NOAA’s National Severe
Storm Laboratory in Norman, Okla., told Oklahoma’s News 9 channel.
"Hopefully I'll get photos from all 50 states, and if I do, I'll put
them into a Google Earth map and make a snow snapshot of America."

(Wanna help Mr. Marsh? Send pics to .)

So what’s going on?

Climate-change debate has been hot and heavy as official Washington
shut down for four straight days. The wintry blasts, Time magazine
explained, could actually be part of a global-warming trend. (We’ll
let them explain that here.)

Less controversial were the communal dig-outs taking place across
Washington. Shovelers dubbed the comity “snowcialism.”

More seriously, the storms are likely to nip American taxpayers as
city and states burn through their snow-clearing budgets.

“[S]end dough for snow,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D) of Maryland wrote
in a plea to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

The culprit, it appears, is a strong Pacific El Niño pattern that has
stirred up a boatload of moisture rolling across Mexico, into the
Gulf, and up through the South. All that is now colliding on a regular
basis with unusually deep dips of Arctic air.

At the same time, much of the Midwest is experiencing a comparatively
mild snow season – even as Vancouver, British Columbia, is having to
truck in snow for some of its Olympic events.

Other notable events in this topsy-turvy season: The South saw one of
the first big storms, frozen iguanas fell out of trees in Florida, and
snowfall records were broken in a dozen cities including Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Washington.

And winter is barely halfway over. (Punxsutawney Phil, after all, said
we have at least six more weeks of winter to go.)

“The snow blitz ... is truly a rare event that has no parallel in the
historic record,” wrote Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters Friday
morning.

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/ar...rticleId=46283


1:38 ~ 2:13, 2:16 ~ 2:27, say what!?