Sure enough

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In the Seahawks - Jets game in the 2ns half - when it starts to rain a little - Marv Albert makes a smart-alecey ref to rain

Ever heard of SANDY bitch?????????????????????/

 

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In the Seahawks - Jets game in the 2ns half - when it starts to rain a little - Marv Albert makes a smart-alecey ref to rain

Ever heard of SANDY bitch?????????????????????/

It never rained before the onset of climate change. Prior to 1980 back to the beginning of the world, the climate was static.....stuck on perfect across the entire globe. Everything we are seeing today from a spring sprinkle to snow on Christmas is unprecedented. Just ask climate science.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Pro'bly not - as soon as the crisis is past, it back to business as usual...

Will US role at climate talks change after storm?
24 Nov.`12 — During a year with a monster storm and scorching heat waves, Americans have experienced the kind of freakish weather that many scientists say will occur more often on a warming planet.

And as a re-elected president talks about global warming again, climate activists are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. will be more than a disinterested bystander when the U.N. climate talks resume Monday with a two-week conference in Qatar. "I think there will be expectations from countries to hear a new voice from the United States," said Jennifer Morgan, director of the climate and energy program at the World Resources Institute in Washington.

The climate officials and environment ministers meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha will not come up with an answer to the global temperature rise that is already melting Arctic sea ice and permafrost, raising and acidifying the seas, and shifting rainfall patterns, which has an impact on floods and droughts. They will focus on side issues, like extending the Kyoto protocol — an expiring emissions pact with a dwindling number of members — and ramping up climate financing for poor nations. They will also try to structure the talks for a new global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted in 2015, a process in which American leadership is considered crucial.

Many were disappointed that Obama didn't put more emphasis on climate change during his first term. He took some steps to rein in emissions of heat-trapping gases, such as sharply increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. But a climate bill that would have capped U.S. emissions stalled in the Senate. "We need the U.S. to engage even more," European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard told The Associated Press. "Because that can change the dynamic of the talks." The world tried to move forward without the U.S. after the Bush Administration abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 pact limiting greenhouse emissions from industrialized nations. As that agreement expires this year, the climate curves are still pointing in the wrong direction.

The concentration of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, according to a U.N. report released this week. And each year, the gap between what researchers say must be done to reverse this trend, and what's actually being done, gets wider. Bridging that gap, through clean technology and renewable energy, is not just up to the U.S., but to countries like India and China, whose carbon emissions are growing the fastest as their economies expand. But Obama raised hopes of a more robust U.S. role in the talks when he called for a national "conversation" on climate change after winning re-election. The issue had been virtually absent in the presidential campaigning until Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast.

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US Drought Monitor

 

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Granny says sure enough - it gonna be a long dry spell...

Stubborn US drought could be costlier than hurricane Sandy
December 7, 2012 - As drought conditions persist across the South, hitting farmers and ranchers, parts of the Mississippi River are on the verge of becoming unnavigable. The potential costs are large.

Less than 18 months after the US Army Corps of Engineers blasted gaps in a levee on the Mississippi River to cope with a record flood, it's getting ready to detonate explosives for the opposite reason – to clear rock outcroppings on the bottom of the drought-depleted waterway so cargo can keep moving. "From one extreme to another in just the space of 12, 15, 16 months? It's just incredible," says Richard Heim, a drought specialist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

The time last year, the drought in the continental US was largely confined to the its southern tier. Since mid-July, however, between 60 and 65 percent of the continental US has been experiencing moderate-to-exceptional drought (though the figure slipped below 60 percent for two weeks in November), according to the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Md. While forecasters expect some easing of drought conditions during the next three months in patches around perimeter the drought's vast core, drought is expected to persist or intensify from the Southwest up into the Rocky Mountain states. Even in a year that saw hurricane Sandy, the drought could be the headline severe-weather event of 2012.

Initial estimates range from $60 billion to $100 billion, with a first official estimate from the US Department of Agriculture expected in February, says Steven Cain, a specialist with Purdue University's Agriculture Communications Service in West Lafayette, Ind. By some estimates, Sandy inflicted at least $75 billion in damage. So far, hurricane Katrina in 2005 tops the costly-weather-event list at about $108 billion. Still, Mr. Cain says, the country faces the prospect of dealing with what are likely to be two of the three most expensive weather-related disasters on record – in the same year. "That's going to be an amazing recovery situation," Cain says.

In 2010 and 2011, the southern tier bore the brunt of drought conditions, thanks to back-to-back winters where La Niña held sway in the tropical Pacific. Over North America, a La Niña pattern tends to shove average storm tracks farther north than usual. Coming out of the winter of 2011-12, much of the US heartland saw virtually no snow cover – 14 percent of the continental US was covered in snow, compared with 56 percent in January 2010.

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People living in Seattle can be identified by their wonderful brown complexion. It is not a tan, it's rust!

 

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People living in Seattle can be identified by their wonderful brown complexion. It is not a tan, it's rust!

Its cloudy a lot - but Seattle gets less rainfall by far than any cities on the East Coast

andthe south for that matter

 

[Old Rocks]

Maybe, but they don't get a 1/4" every day

The way you tell summer from winter in Seattle is that you can see the rain longer in the summer.

 

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Seattle getsfar less rainfall than the cities on the east coast, the south for that matter .

Lose the cliches...................................

And cover your stadiums with roofs --------------

TIRED OF BASEBALL RAINOUTS

 

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In the Seahawks - Jets game in the 2ns half - when it starts to rain a little - Marv Albert makes a smart-alecey ref to rain

Ever heard of SANDY bitch?????????????????????/

It never rained before the onset of climate change. Prior to 1980 back to the beginning of the world, the climate was static.....stuck on perfect across the entire globe. Everything we are seeing today from a spring sprinkle to snow on Christmas is unprecedented. Just ask climate science.

classic................

 

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Seattle gets around 38 inches of rain per year.

Chicago and the midwest, NYC all the way down the East Coast, deep south get well over 40 inches.

Seattle is like a desert compared to those places.

lose the cliches

 

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In Seattle, the weathermen don't give you percentages of chances of rain. Instead, they give you precentages of chances of hours that it might not rain. When the sun does make an appearance, parents have to explain the strange phenomonem to their children.

 

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Granny says dey's like canaries inna coal mine...

Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues
22 Dec.`12 — Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl. Bittern. Crested Cara-Cara. Kostecke rattled off the names and scribbled them in his notebook.

His data, along with that from more than 50 other volunteers spread out into six groups across the 7,000-acre Mad Island preserve, will be analyzed regionally and then added to a database with the results of more than 2,200 other bird counts going on from mid-December to Jan. 5 across the Western Hemisphere. The count began in 1900 as a National Audubon Society protest of holiday hunts that left piles of bird and animal carcasses littered across the country. It now helps scientists understand how birds react to short-term weather events and may provide clues as to how they will adapt as temperatures rise and climate changes. "Learning the changes of habit in drought could help us know what will happen as it gets warmer and drier," said Kostecke, a bird expert and associate director of conservation, research and planning at the Nature Conservancy in Texas.

Scientists saw birds change their habits during last year's historic drought that parched most of Texas. Some birds that normally winter on the coast — such as endangered whooping cranes — arrived and immediately turned back when they couldn't find enough food. Other birds didn't even bother flying to the coast. Snowy owls, who sometimes migrate from the Arctic to Montana, suddenly showed up as far south as Texas. There has been some rain this year, but Texas still hasn't fully recovered from the drought and many areas remain unusually dry. Wetlands, a crucial bird habitat, have been damaged. Trees and brush are dead or brown. There are fewer flooded rice fields, prime foraging grounds for birds. And sandhill cranes, for the second winter in a row, are staying in Nebraska.

An initial report on the 24-hour count that began midnight Monday and ended midnight Tuesday included 233 different species — a drop of 11 from last year when 244 were counted on Mad Island. While the area likely still has one of the United States' most diverse bird populations, the species that were missing raise questions. Where are the wild turkeys? Why were no black rails found? What about fox sparrows and the 13 other species that are commonly counted on the preserve? Where have they gone? "There are several possibilities," Kostecke surmised. "Conditions may be better in the east, like Louisiana. Some may still be north, because it's been mild, and they tend to follow the freeze line." With weather in the north still relatively warm, some birds might choose to stay put and conserve energy for the nesting season, Kostecke added.

More Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues - Yahoo! News