Valdez, Alaska gets 5′ 8″ of Snow!
Yep. Maybe more, reports the Alaska Dispatch.
Moulton said the National Weather Service estimate was probably already a little low; on Wednesday evening they’d reported 63.5 inches, but, he said, “we easily got (another) foot last night.”
The biggest problem? Snow removal from the streets, where berms are piled something like three or four feet deep.
It’s been cold too. Kind of unusual for an El Nino year that usually means warmer weather in Alaska. Of course then there is the question of why global warming isn’t leading to less snow around the world? Blizzard Warnings are up tonight for Long Island, NY. Washington, DC is expecting 10-20″. Atlanta may see a few snowflakes mixed into their rain by Christmas. Oh, and there has been heavy snow in England and other parts of Europe.
Perhaps more people will realize that it’s the Sun driving the weather and as long as it’s in a quiet period, we can expect more snow and shorter growing seasons. Not the other way around.
June Frost in Canada, “Worst in Memory”
More evidence of a cooler planet as the Sun is quiet and therefore not radiating as much energy. A very unusual deep trough over the western U.S. is giving Tucson it’s coolest start to June in at least 9 years.
In Canada, it’s widespread frost affecting the growing season.
In Manitoba, the frost is the worst in memory for its frequency and area covered, said Derwyn Hammond, the province’s senior agronomy specialist for the Canola Council.
“Certainly (it’s) the worst year I’ve seen,” said Hammond, who has worked for the Canola Council for 15 years.
With deadlines for full canola crop insurance ranging between June 10 and 20 in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Hammond said he expects most farmers will choose not to reseed.
I don’t think the computer models that have been used to predict global warming predicted all of this cold weather. Remember last Winter? Snow in New Orleans, Mississippi and other parts of the south. Early and late season blizzards in the Dakotas. Now a prediction of a year without a Summer in parts of the U.S. this year. Much like Alaska and Chicago last Summer.
The Real Cost of Earth Day
Just how much it will cost them has been a point of contention lately. Many congressional Republicans, including members of the GOP leadership, have claimed that the plan to limit carbon emissions through cap and trade would cost the average household more than $3,100 per year. According to an MIT study, between 2015 and 2050 cap and trade would annually raise an average of $366 billion in revenues (divided by 117 million households equals $3,128 per household, the Republicans reckon).
OK, it’s not really the cost of Earth Day. It’s the projected cost of a policy that is aimed at lowering CO2 from the atmosphere to keep the planet from warming up. However, there are plenty of scientists who will tell you that the warming of the 80′s and 90′s has already stopped. We have outlined a ton of evidence that the world is getting colder, not warmer. Glaciers in Alaska and many parts of the Northern Hemisphere grew last year. It has been snowing in the last two years in places that normally don’t get snow. It’s been back to back very cold and snowy Winters in the Great Lakes region. Alaska had no Summer last year. Antarctica is getting colder, not warmer.
No. We don’t need to spend $3K per household to drive up energy costs and hurt our economy. What we need is a concerted effort to Stop Global Cooling Now! In light of the new study that says fat folk are contributing to the green house gases, I say, Super Size it on Earth Day for a warmer tomorrow!
Court Cancels Offshore Drilling
This is why this debate is so important. If the Environmental Protection Agency believes that CO2 is a pollutant than we are in for a lot more rulings like this one:
A three-judge panel in the District of Columbia says the Bush administration’s Interior Department failed to consider the offshore environmental impact and marine life before approving an oil and gas leasing program in the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi (CHOOK-chee) seas.
While this ruling is not related to the EPAs finding the CO2 is a pollutant it does open the door to shutting the door on oil and gas exploration. I’m not looking forward to higher (much higher probably) energy prices that we can look forward too. It’s bad enough that Winter is hanging on into late April over parts of the country! Soon, we may add a high cost to keeping warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer.
I didn’t even mention the $700 billion flowing from the USA to oil producing countries. I also didn’t mention that our proceedures for extracting oil is more environmentally friendly than other countries. Nobody does a better job of preventing spills than the USA! Most oil accidents are tanker mishaps, which, as we import more and more oil and natural gas, we increase tanker traffic.
So, to summarize. Buy a pot bellied stove, chop up some tress and keep warm the best you can next Winter. It’s likely to be a cold, expensive one!
Snow in Madrid, Spain!
Man caused Global Warming is losing support. Maybe because of the actual weather across the globe. This Winter is turning out to be another unusually cold and snowy one. How about this from Breitbart. Madrid, Spain was paralyzed by a rare snow storm and cold temperatures! The same story talks about the extreme cold in Germany.
In Germany, the death toll from the cold snap rose to three and several rivers were frozen over, blocking ship traffic, authorities said.
Drift ice covered 80 to 90 percent of the surface of the river Elbe from Doemnitz to the Germany’s main port of Hamburg in the north, a spokeswoman for the Water and Shipping Office said.
Meanwhile, Russia has decided to shut off the natural gas to parts of eastern Europe.
As temperatures plummeted throughout the continent, around a dozen European nations were suffering the effects of Russia’s decision to turn off the natural gas supplies transiting through Ukraine to Europe.
Bulgaria received no Russian gas for the fourth day in a row as temperatures plunged to minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and heavy snow covered most of the country.
Meanwhile the extreme cold in Alaska and Canada is set to move into the U.S. next week. If you live east of the Rockies, get ready for VERY cold air. New York City could be below zero for only the second time since the 1940s!
Oh No… Alaskan Glaciers Grow!
One cool summer after a cold winter does not mean that Global Warming is officially over. However, combined with all of the evidence I have outlined over the past two years on this blog I’d say probably. After all, that’s what the measurements say. Your help is needed more than ever to reverse this dangerous trend.
I found another article this morning that is a bit unsettling. Seems that some scientist in Alaska monitoring that states glaciers have noticed in increase in the size of said glaciers. I wonder if they’ll stay on the payroll after revealing such finding that fly in the face of conventional wisdom. While world governments are trying to cool the planet this is more evidence that we should be working hard to do just the opposite! Here’s the link.
Basically, the scientist in the article is saying that a lot of cold and snow last winter combined with a really cool summer this summer has caused glaciers in Alaska to grow since last year.
What the article doesn’t predict is which way they are likely to go from here. Now that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has switched to a cold phase (after 30 years in a warm phase), and now that the Sun has become much quieter, we can expect an extended cold snap. Our only hope to reverse this trend is to do everything we can to increase greenhouse gases of every kind (it is greenhouse gases that are changing the climate, right?) Write your congressmen and women, Senator’s, President’s. We MUST fire up every coal plant possible.
If we don’t act now, we risk having the rest of the planet looking like Alaska. No one wants that, do they?
Cool Summer
in Alaska. The Anchorage Daily News reports it could be the COLDEST SUMMER EVER in Anchorage! The Weather Service says it’s La Nina’s fault and when it fades temps should return to average or above. We will see. This blog and others have been talking about a cooler Sun. If that’s true, look for a COLD Winter in a lot of places and more La Nina’s now that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has flipped to it’s cold phase.
Chillin’ in Alaska
Snow in Arizona!
Here’s the article. It’s in the Anchorage Daily News. Seems like it’s been a cooler than normal Summer. The dangerous Global Warming theory says we should be getting warmer, but clearly it’s cooling off. Perhaps this will help convince you to Stop Global Cooling Now!
The guy from the National Weather Service does explain that while below normal, this dreary cool Summer is not that far out of the ordinary (yet). It seems more dramatic since the last two Summers were sunny and warm compared to normal. Still, only two days above 70 so far?! Normal for an Anchorage Summer is 14, so there is a long way to go. Yeah. They’re chillin’ in Anchorage.
Here’s what’s really interesting in this article to me:
He thinks the strong forces of La Nina are the culprit. La Nina, a phenomenon that causes ocean temperatures to dip below average, kicked in this year and resulted in a drop in land temperatures, Albanese said.
Another cause could be Pacific decadal oscillation, a cyclical period of lower ocean temperatures that comes every 20 to 25 years.
There’s a warm phase and a cold phase of the climate pattern, Vonderheide said.
“We were in a warm phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation in the ’80s and ’90s,” he said. “(Some forecasters) believe we may have entered into the cold phase.”
If the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has flipped, than could it be that the warm phase we were in has been causing glacial melt and all of those things the Global Warming fear mongers have been pointing too as evidence of CO2 polluting the planet?
Government has it wrong! We must fight their fight against warmer temperatures. If they succeed in driving temperatures down with their fight against Global Warming then we may all wake up one day to a world without Summer. That would make the Beach Boys very sad :-(
Is it Spring Yet?
Welcome to Spring?!
It’s snowing today in Anchorage. Fairbanks too. OK, you say, “that’s Alaska.” OK. It’s snowing in Minnesota today too! It is almost May. While this sort of weather isn’t unheard of, it sorta goes against the “Oh no! The ice caps are melting, the ice caps are melting” mantra from the Global Warming fanatics. In case Chicken Little can read, here’s something from the Australian Press. The article is dated April 23, 2008. Here is an excerpt from the article:
There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.
It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years.
This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.
It didn’t happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.
The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.
Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon’s Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.
That the rapid temperature decline in 2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a causal connection but it is cause for concern.
Cause for concern:
- if you like normal growing seasons
- if you like Winter to start and end on time (rather than start early and end late like this year)
- if you are a Global Warming true believer and are committed to raising carbon taxes and receiving grant $$
Continue the fight against government propaganda! We must continue to do what we can to fight this global cooling! I love building a snowman as much as the next person, but our kids shouldn’t have to be drug outside with gloves and scarfs in May to play in the snow. Won’t you emit some global warming gases today?!
