Another Baseless Al Gore type Prediction..No More Snow!

As the Earth's average temperature increases, the amount of snow occurring, planetwide, throughout the year, will decrease. This can be offset by increases in precipitation in colder areas, like Antarctica and high altitude regions. I haven't bothered to read the prediction you're talking about. It would be pretty irrelevant. But deniers jump on it as they love to do. As they're driven to do, since they can't argue the actual science.

The world is getting warmer. The primary cause is the greenhouse effect acting on human GHG emissions. These points have become simply irrefutable.






Yeah, that's what viner claimed back in the early 90's. He was catastrophically wrong. As are you.
 

Records from the last five decades show that on average, spring snow is disappearing earlier in the year than it did in the past, with the most rapid declines in snow-covered area occuring in June. Across the Northern Hemisphere, the total area covered by snow during March and April has also shrunk over time.

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Explore this interactive graph: Click and drag either axis to view different parts of the graph. To squeeze or stretch the graph in either direction, hold your Shift key down, then click and drag. This graph (source data) shows average area covered by snow in the Northern Hemisphere during March and April as the difference from the 1981-2010 average.

Measuring snow extent
Beginning in the 1960s, weekly maps of snow extent in the Northern Hemisphere were prepared from satellite imagery. Now, satellites provide daily maps of snow cover for both hemispheres. Ground observations, precipitation gauges, and weather stations with pressure-sensitive “pillows” measure the amount of snow on the ground and validate the satellite maps. The graph above shows how the average extent of snow cover each March and April compares to the long-term average extent for those months.

Climate Change: Spring Snow Cover | NOAA Climate.gov

Snow cover has shrank significantly in the that five decades.
 

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