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February 7, 2010 6:58pm by David Farrar

Winter in Washington

These two photos from the Drudge Report show the extent of the blizzard that hit Washington DC.

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Grant Michael McKenna

That is 12 inches of global warming, as the saying has it.
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February 7, 2010 7:34pm
petal

That’s some deep deep manbearpig doodoos 😉
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February 7, 2010 8:03pm
TripeWryter

Had an e-mail today from friends in Indiana — it’s six feet of snow outside in their street. And it had looked as if the worst of the winter had passed.
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February 7, 2010 8:17pm
JC

Clearly these people had forgotten to change their clocks at Nov 30 from “Global Warming”, to “Climate Change”. The same mistake is often made in reverse, in the Southern Hemisphere.

JC
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February 7, 2010 8:27pm
francis

February is traditionally a very cold month in the US, lots of snow. This one really was exceptional, though.
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February 7, 2010 8:43pm
simon_the_tall

Imagine how much worse it would have been without global warming!
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February 7, 2010 9:32pm
simon_the_tall

Clearly the Copenhagen conference worked.
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February 7, 2010 9:32pm
burt

Look how effective the anti global warming church has been. NZ passed the ETS and look – winter is back in the northern hemisphere.
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February 7, 2010 9:33pm
lloydois

Meanwhile Vancouver is experiencing its warmest winter in some time, just in time for the Winter Olympics.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g_SwyDYumOzQqWevKnJ9J6s_FZDg

Yes, it is colder than usual in some parts of the northern hemisphere, and warmer than usual in others. Alaska and northern Canada are 5-10C warmer than the average for this time of year, so are North Africa and the Mediterranean. The cold and the warmth could be related: the contrasting temperatures appear to be connected to blocks of high pressure preventing air flow between the land and the sea.

This is called weather, and, believe it or not, it is not always predictable and it changes quite often. It is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends. Is this really so hard to understand?
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February 7, 2010 9:34pm
burt

lloydois

A friend of mine in Vancouver isn’t in agreement with that news. He said it’s fricken cold, colder than usual. But hey what would he know, he’s there and not a politician so how could he speak with any authority.

Edit: Well that is what he said last time I talked to him about 3 weeks ago. Will check again – sending email now.
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February 7, 2010 9:36pm
burt

lloydois

See this graph, mostly below the average. That news link you provided is shite.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/cabc0308
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February 7, 2010 9:41pm
lloydois

Thanks for proving my point Burt. 14 days isn’t a trend my friend. Neither is the warmest January ON RECORD as has just occured at Cypress Mountain one of the venues for the games.

The point was, weather and climate are 2 different things.

Get your small brain around that fact and you might begin to work out why record snow falls in Washington DC does not necessarily dissprove the fact that global warming is occuring.
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February 7, 2010 10:07pm
db..

Hey lloydois, look around, listen, you are now part of a minority group. Just get used to it…
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February 7, 2010 11:17pm
mavxp

We’ve entered Solar Cycle 24. This change occurs at a solar minimum, and effectively means we can expect colder winters from now on (for next wee while anyway), until the solar activity increases again. Some argue the sun is forcing the observed effects of climate change in the last decade – as it always has in history, and that manmade CO2 is not responsible for climate change. However, the physics of CO2 H2O and CH4 in the atmosphere are understood and the CO2 has increased markedly since the industrial age. It stands to reason there is some effect – the question is – is it enough to force significant climate change? And is that climate change necessarily “a bad thing” (TM)?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jan_solarcycle24.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-cycle-data.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

http://solarcycle24.com/
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February 8, 2010 12:12am
mavxp

This is a good pic, from NASA showing solar activity over the last few hundred years:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/noaaprediction/maunderminimum.jpg

It seems to me that this a major contributor to the observations we refer to as “climate change”.

FYI, the maunder minimum coincided with the “Little ice age”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

But cause and effect are not well understood. “Correlation does not equal causation”. Consequently there is still debate as to whether or not Sunspot activity is responsible for climate change.
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February 8, 2010 12:47am
Richard Hurst

Clearly God wanted a republican in the White House and is punishing America with Snow! 😉
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February 8, 2010 7:00am
Murray

“Weather isn’t the same as climate” gfrom the people that blamed a hurricane on “climate change” during a season when there less hurricanes than previously and meanwhile the climate has gotten warmed.

Give it a week or two and Al gore will be saying that CO2 causes “Global Cooling!” and they’ve checked their figures this time but we all need to buy carbon credits from just the same.
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