On Endless Ice, Searching for Clues to Our Future

Did they find out why we are having such cold and longer winters?

We are not having longer and colder winters.


http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/epaul.doc

Average winter temperatures are increasing more than twice as fast as average annual temperatures as winter temperatures are rising at 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The change in winter temperature has led to shorter winters. The snow season in the Great Lakes region has decreased by roughly 6 days over the last 50 years. In many areas, springs arrives much earlier. The climate change has also been observed in the amount of rainfall. Precipitation has increased by 15 to 20 percent in parts of Minnesota, especially the southern part. A study of flood variability in the Upper Mississippi River Basin revealed a significant increase in flood flows overtime (MPCA 2003). If the trend of changing precipitation and temperature continues many scientists predict that Minnesota will begin to look much more like Nebraska or Missouri with much drier conditions and less forest cover. Animals and insects have appeared in the past decades that have never been seen in Minnesota before. True katydids and opossums have now been spotted in Minnesota as far north as the twin cities. The climate of Southern Minnesota has started to change.


It certainly was here in southern AZ.
Our June was cold all month long and we had to use our heater.
We never have had to use our heat in May let alone June.
It was also cold in June for Colo.
It did not get warm till the end of June.
So their study is wrong.
We had a very long winter.




Ours was too. In fact my daughter had a single plant survive the continuing cold snaps in her little garden. She was very put out at the weather! Our summer has been very mild as well. So far we have not had a single day over 100 degrees, and there has been just a single day that we will charitably say reached 100 degrees (it only did that at the airport and only for two hours in the middle of the day) so the summer too has been cooler.
 
And everyone talks about how cold this winter was in Portland, Oregon. Everyone from California or some such place. We had one cold week of sub-freezing temperatures at night. Never got to 0 F once. Compare that to winters we have had in the past where the Columbia froze over, and people drove on the ice from Portland to Vancouver.

We had one week of heat in NYC and you pointed to that as "proof" of AGW.
 
Did they find out why we are having such cold and longer winters?

We are not having longer and colder winters.


http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/epaul.doc

Average winter temperatures are increasing more than twice as fast as average annual temperatures as winter temperatures are rising at 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The change in winter temperature has led to shorter winters. The snow season in the Great Lakes region has decreased by roughly 6 days over the last 50 years. In many areas, springs arrives much earlier. The climate change has also been observed in the amount of rainfall. Precipitation has increased by 15 to 20 percent in parts of Minnesota, especially the southern part. A study of flood variability in the Upper Mississippi River Basin revealed a significant increase in flood flows overtime (MPCA 2003). If the trend of changing precipitation and temperature continues many scientists predict that Minnesota will begin to look much more like Nebraska or Missouri with much drier conditions and less forest cover. Animals and insects have appeared in the past decades that have never been seen in Minnesota before. True katydids and opossums have now been spotted in Minnesota as far north as the twin cities. The climate of Southern Minnesota has started to change.


It certainly was here in southern AZ.
Our June was cold all month long and we had to use our heater.
We never have had to use our heat in May let alone June.
It was also cold in June for Colo.
It did not get warm till the end of June.
So their study is wrong.
We had a very long winter.

They had skiing in Tahoe in July. Don't worry thought, the winters are warmer and shorter.
 

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