Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
I've travelled a bit in the last year, and a number of normally warm places have been chilled below "normal" in that period, not to mention the snow in the great white (again) norths. I'll be interested to see what Al Gore has to say to rebut this.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
Even under the Weatherdome of the GTA they had 70cm of snow in two weeks. The merde blanche in Quebec City is as heavy as ever, etc, etc. Personally I was looking forward to a bit of warming, and the opposite of that causes us northerners a lot more trouble than Global Warming ever could. This just proves that we have no idea what nature will do, which should be a message to the more arrogant climate modelers, but I can't imagine they'll catch it.
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You should probably read a little more into the Global Warming theory...it has nothing to do with the winter temperatures or snowfall in one or two years in a given city. The general warming of the planet is thought to cause changes to weather patterns, particularly due to the warming of the oceans. One of the effects, over time, of planetary warming may very well be colder winters in Toronto and record snow falls in Ottawa!
First of all, I like comments; they show that someone was reading and at least paying some attention.
That said, despite my half-assed post in this case I am QUITE familiar with the so-called "theory" of Global Warming. I put theory in quotation marks because a theory is something that has been tested, a HYPOTHESIS is an untested/unproven idea.
So the Global Warming hypotheses are legion, and all varying degrees of catastrophic. There are many examples of cooked statistics (e.g. the "Hockey Stick") and wilful ignoring of known historical climate trends (Medieval Warm Period/Little Ice Age, anyone), let alone all the deterministic computer modelling.
The short version is that Global Warming thing has descended to political orthodoxy with very poor if any real science behind it.
The planet is a small part of the solar system, and it has been noted that other planets (Mars and Pluto for examples) have been warming independent of our CO2 emissions. The climate is naturally variable, and from a geologic standpoint we are in a short warm period within a general glacial era.
It's been cooler and it's been warmer, and that fluctuation will continue irrespective of us burning things. Al Gore and the supporters of Kyoto would like to kneecap the (western) industrial countries on the basis of some reconstructed Luddism (if that's a word), since there is no testable theory to justify destroying our standard of living, especially with more and more evidence coming in that the temperatures have plateaued and are on their way down again.
We don't know what will happen, but the idea that we are more powerful than nature is NOT one that I ascribe to. I haven't footnoted any of this, but the info is all out there, and you don't have to look very hard to find it.
Oh, snap!
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