By Steve Goddard, Real Science
This winter (December-February) will almost certainly be in the top two snow cover years for the northern hemisphere. Right now it is positioned as the snowiest winter on record.
As our top climate scientists explain it, the shortage of snow cover is the cause of the record snow cover.
http://www.usnews.com
Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore ties the loose ends together :
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
The shortage of snow causes global warming, which then creates an excess of snow. This is known among Nobel prize winning climate scientists as an excessshortage, or alternatively as a shortageexcess.
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Gore’s website crashed by Drudge—The man who ‘created’ the Internet finds his website not up to task
Climate Depot
Former President Al Gore’s website was crashed by Matt Drudge’s website on Tuesday afternoon. Gore’s site was down from approximately 4:30 PM ET until about 6PM ET. The DrudgeReport.com linked to Gore’s claim that “increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with… man-made global warming” at exactly 4:29pm ET.
Gore’s website crashed almost immediately following Drudge’s link. The irony for Gore is that he has touted his role of “creating the Internet.” “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet,” Gore said during a March 9, 1999 CNN interview. It now appears the creator of the Internet’s website is not able to handle traffic from the DrudgeReport.com.
Gore has been joined by many proponents of man-made global warming in now claiming that record cold and snow is either “consistent with” or caused by global warming.
See: Flashback: Top Democrats Warn Low Snow Levels Prove Global Warming (Video) - ‘Watch Democrats Jay Inslee, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Byrd and Dianne Feinstein express deep concern and alarm during years when winters were mild and snow was light, contending that global warming was the cause.’
Even more bad news for Al Gore is the fact that his claim that heavy snows being “completely consistent” with “man-made global warming” is being ridiculed by scientists and the claims are at odds with the UN climate panel that Gore shared a 2007 Nobel Prize with.
See: Climate ‘Bible’, the IPCC in 2007 ‘told us that winters would be WARMER and LESS extreme’ -- UN IPCC 2007: ‘More warm and fewer cold nights...fewer frost days...fewer cold outbreaks; fewer, shorter, less intense cold spells/cold extremes in winter’
Gore’s claim of snow being “consistent” with global warming is also at odds with is Oscar Winning 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore never once warned of record cold and increasing snowfalls as a consequence of man-made global warming in that film.
See also on WUWT, Ryan Maue take the Goracle to task for his ridiculous assertions. Gore refers to columnist Clarence Page in a 2010 story for support.
Freedom Action
Washington, D.C., January 31, 2011 - In a move aimed at blocking the Obama Administration’s proliferating global warming regulations, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today introduced a bill to prohibit federal agencies from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Freedom Action supports enactment of the legislation, the Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act.
“The American people have spoken and cap and trade legislation is dead, but unfortunately President Obama and his band of regulators haven’t gotten the message,” said Myron Ebell, President of Freedom Action.
“Sen. Barrasso’s bill clears the deck and puts Congress back in charge of our energy and global warming policies,” said Ebell. “Our hope is that a similar bill will be introduced in the House and moved rapidly out of committee to a floor vote.
“Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act and other laws not designed for the purpose is strangling investment in the economy and destroying jobs,” Ebell explained. “Enactment of Sen. Barrasso’s bill is the largest single step the Congress could take to restore the American economy to a path of robust long-term growth. Freedom Action supports enactment of Sen. Barrasso’s bill.”
The measure would overturn EPA’s finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and safety and block plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities using the Clean Air Act.
Read the bill on global warming.org here.
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM in the Energy Tribune
Both NOAA and NASA this month announced that 2010 was tied for the warmest year. The UK Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University proclaimed 2010 the second warmest year since 1850.
But after the incredibly cold and snowy winters in 2008/09 and 2009/10 and so far in 2010/11, those claims are falling on increasingly deaf ears. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing given the Climategate disclosures suggesting scientists have been ‘cooking the books’, especially when earlier promises of warm, snowless mid-latitude winters failed miserably.
Back on March 20, 2000, The Independent, a British newspaper, reported Dr. David Viner’s of the UK’s Climate Research Unit warning that within a few years snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event.” Indeed, Viner opined, “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
Similarly, David Parker, at the UK’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, said that eventually British children could have only “virtual” experience of snow via movies and the Internet.
The last three winters in the UK were forecast by the UK Met Office to be mild and snowless. Instead, brutal cold and snow in the UK has the UK Met Office on their heels. Indeed the cold and snow was a throwback to the age of Dickens in the early 1800s. UK MPs called for Official Parliamentary Probe into whether the UKMO reliance on their ideology and CO2 models had biased their predictions.
In the United States, NOAA echoing the UN IPCC, claimed snow would retreat north with the storm tracks and major cities would get more rain and mild winters. The Union of Concerned Scientists said in 2006 scientists claim winters were becoming warmer and less snowy. In 2008, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bemoaned that children would be robbed of the childhood joys of sledding and skiing in the DC area due to global warming. A year later, the area set a new seasonal snowfall record with 5 to 6 feet of snow and sleds and skis were the only way to get around.
The winter of 2009/10 was the coldest ever in parts of the southeast, and in parts of Siberia and the coldest since 1977/78 or 1962/63 in many parts of the United States, Europe and Asia.
The spirits of alarmists and their cheerleaders in the media were buoyed by the hot summer in the eastern United States and western Russia even though that is the normal result when a strong La Nina follows on the heels of a strong El Nino winter. But as is usually the case in La Ninas, global cooling usually follows within 6 months. Indeed, temperatures plunged as winter approached and this past December (2010) was the second coldest in the entire Central England Temperature record extending back to 1659. It was the coldest ever December in diverse locations like Ireland, Sweden, and Florida.
Reluctantly, alarmists and their cheerleaders in the media changed their tune and the promise of warm and snowless winters with ‘global warming’ morphed into global warming means cold and snowy winters. ABC News even said cold and snowy winters would be the new norm because of global warming. Non sequiturs like that have sadly become ‘the new norm’ in the wacky world of the mainstream media.
In Australia, the government’s Bureau of Meteorology and university alarmist scientists promised major drought and blocked dams and flood mitigation projects, but when devastating floods occurred this summer, they blamed that on global warming and again enviros and government agencies escaped the blame. Other scientists had warned that changes in the Pacific would lead to a return of the flood years like 1974, but they were ignored by agenda driven, green leaning government.
In fact environmentalists and alarmist scientists have reinvented global warming and now attribute all weather to global warming - cold, warm, drought and flood. They call it ‘climate disruption’. But the climate has not been cooperating in a way that is convincing the public they have to sacrifice even more to stop a problem they don’t sense is real. Just imagine if they knew how much they really would cost (trillions - several thousands of dollars per year per family) and how little these deep sacrifices would change the climate (not measureable).
Despite claims to the contrary, in recent years, global temperatures stopped warming. Even Phil Jones of the UK Climate Research Unit after Climategate admitted there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995 (15 years) and between 2002 and 2009, the global temperatures had declined 0.12C (0.22F).
Read much more in the story here.
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See how cold it has been from December 1, 2010 to January 26, 2011, expecially in the southeast for the second straight winter.
Enlarged here.
The equivalent period last year (enlarged here).
No end in sight yet to the cold and snow. Model temperature anomaly forecasts for week 2 (days 8-14 or February 5-12th at 850mb or about 5000 feet) (enlarged here).
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/destroying-evidence-at-the-ministry-of-truth/
