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These extraordinary pictures give graphic new evidence of climate change.
We highlight December images taken in recent days in two Siberian cities Krasnoyarsk and Barnaul showing scenes that locals insist are unprecedented in living memory. The startling pictures from Krasnoyarsk show an almost total absence of snow yet as every school child around the world knows, snow is what Siberia is all about.
No more, it seems. The images of the River Yenisei with ducks splashing in the water, and grass in the parks, could be from autumn rather than deep in the winter in a city where December temperatures have gone as low as minus 47C, and the daily mean in minus 13C at this time of year, with plenty of snow on the ground.
As in many areas of Siberia this winter, the thermometer is reluctant to plummet to customary bone-chilling temperatures. Last night when we checked outside, it was a mere minus 3C. Day time temperatures lately have been warmer. As mother-of-two Anastasia said from Krasnoyarsk: 'I'm reading a book to my children and I hear the tapping of the rain in my ear. Rain? Rain??? Rain in the middle of December? In Siberia?'
Last year, record cold at this time in Siberia. This year, record warm.
Last year, record cold at this time in Siberia. This year, record warm.
wait....dont tell me....both are proof positive of global warming!
am I right????
an unfalsifiable hypothesis is not science.
Last year, record cold at this time in Siberia. This year, record warm.
wait....dont tell me....both are proof positive of global warming!
am I right????
an unfalsifiable hypothesis is not science.
No, but when you look at the worldwide trend for extremes, you can see a trend. Both Swiss Re and Munich Re state that. Of course, they are just evil capitalistic mega-businesses supporting evil communistic scientists. See how your logic is so clear?
Additionally, see de Laat and Crok (2013) A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening? The authors argue that a shift in the North Atlantic Oscillation (similar to the Arctic Oscillation) in the late 1980s caused more sunlight to warm European surface temperatures in an apparent shift. I would suspect that something similar occurred over Russia at that time as well.
A weakening magnetic field will cause many things, however it defeats any AGW cult predictions that are not based on a any science.
November 2013 Russian Hotspot Alarmists Are Overlooking Something
November 2013 Russian ?Hotspot? ? Alarmists Are Overlooking Something | Watts Up With That?
Additionally, see de Laat and Crok (2013) A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening? The authors argue that a shift in the North Atlantic Oscillation (similar to the Arctic Oscillation) in the late 1980s caused more sunlight to warm European surface temperatures in an apparent shift. I would suspect that something similar occurred over Russia at that time as well.
So yes more AGW propaganda.
November 2013 Russian “Hotspot” – Alarmists Are Overlooking Something
November 2013 Russian ?Hotspot? ? Alarmists Are Overlooking Something | Watts Up With That?
Additionally, see de Laat and Crok (2013) A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening? The authors argue that a shift in the North Atlantic Oscillation (similar to the Arctic Oscillation) in the late 1980s caused more sunlight to warm European surface temperatures in an apparent shift. I would suspect that something similar occurred over Russia at that time as well.
So yes more AGW propaganda.
If it was worth a damn, it would be published in a peer reviewed journal, not in an undegreed ex-TV weatherman's blog.
Although the time of change coincides with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) going from negative to positive, the consistent warmer temperatures throughout the decades after 1987-1988 does not coincide with a persistent shift of the NAO, as it returns to a neutral/negative in the 1990’s. Furthermore, the shift does not coincide with any other known mode of multidecadal internal climate variability
