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Snowfalls Are Now Just A Thing of the Past

Deuce said:
If we need to look at a thermometer to know temperature, why does every ****ing "skeptic" on the planet guffaw every time we get snow?
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Because you guys said we wouldn't. See the OP.
 
I bet that guy who died trying to trek across Antarctica wished global warming would hurry the hell up.
 
LowDown said:
Yes, I know what they are saying. But I think it's bogus. Comprehensive and systematic data on these phenomena is only a few decades old. Besides which, if you want to know what the temperature is doing then look at a thermometer, not a glacier, which has other reasons that could cause it to shrink.

BTW, the snow returned to the Alps, also.
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Where did the article say that "snowfalls are now just a thing of the past"? I can't find it.
 
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LowDown said:
Because you guys said we wouldn't. See the OP.
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That article literally says "snow is predicted next Tuesday"

Let me guess:

Some blogger posted these links, gave you the snippets you quoted, and told you "HAHA LOOK THEY PREDICTED NO MORE SNOW EVER"

And then you pasted the "source" to try and hide the fact that your real source was some liar on the internet.

The only other option is that the liar on the internet is you.
 
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roughdraft274 said:
Where did the article say that "snowfalls are now just a thing of the past"? I can't find it.
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The article has been taken down. Here's a quote:

Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
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Throwback Thursday #3: another failed “end of snow” climate prediction | Watts Up With That?
 
LowDown said:
The article has been taken down. Here's a quote:



Throwback Thursday #3: another failed “end of snow” climate prediction | Watts Up With That?
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The numbers given pair nicely with the numbers for a Nature article describing the missing heat.
Climate change: The case of the missing heat : Nature News & Comment
Stark contrast

On a chart of global atmospheric temperatures, the hiatus stands in stark contrast to the rapid warming of the two decades that preceded it. Simulations conducted in advance of the 2013–14 assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the warming should have continued at an average rate of 0.21 °C per decade from 1998 to 2012. Instead, the observed warming during that period was just 0.04 °C per decade, as measured by the UK Met Office in Exeter and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.
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Note the same .2 C per decade.
The problem is they expected the warming rate from 1978 through 1997 to continue unabated,
but it did not.
 
longview said:
The numbers given pair nicely with the numbers for a Nature article describing the missing heat.
Climate change: The case of the missing heat : Nature News & Comment

Note the same .2 C per decade.
The problem is they expected the warming rate from 1978 through 1997 to continue unabated,
but it did not.
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Which indicates that AGW theory is inadequate. More is going on with climate than the theory addresses. I think the level of complexity exceeds our understanding so far. To date, the entire effort is so fraught with gloom and doom I think true believers can take heart that it's likely a pandemic or an asteroid hit will take us all out before AGW does.
 
LowDown said:
The article has been taken down. Here's a quote:
Throwback Thursday #3: another failed “end of snow” climate prediction | Watts Up With That?
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First they throw the Goracle under the bus (you remember....the guy that literally led the charge for the entire AGW movement). Why? Because damn near everything he regurgitated (which they lapped up and swallowed eagerly) has been shown to have been a myth...a lie. So..."Al Gore? Who is Al Gore...we NEVER like that Al Gore guy...pituuuey....we spit on Al Gore." Then come all the dire predictions which have been proven false. But....that's not what they meant...and besides...if you look it a certain way its KINDA what is happening.

Glen posting an out of context picture about a ski resort is no different than Al Gore telling us about the last polar bear.
 
Nilly said:
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Temperature in St. Louis (yearly mean):

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XKCD appears to be pushing a false narrative. If the temperature trend doesn't support the warmist narrative then emphasize the number of cold days or warm days or pick some other factoid that seems to support the narrative.
 
longview said:
The numbers given pair nicely with the numbers for a Nature article describing the missing heat.
Climate change: The case of the missing heat : Nature News & Comment

Note the same .2 C per decade.
The problem is they expected the warming rate from 1978 through 1997 to continue unabated,
but it did not.
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Indeed, global temperatures are now 0.5 degrees cooler than the models predicted. Now that the El Nino has bloomed global temperatures are higher. The government climate scientists' prediction is that now that ocean heat is being pumped into the atmosphere, rather than the heat being absorbed by the ocean, global temperatures will remain higher and restore the previous trend back to the 0.2 degree per decade range. Time will tell. We should know in the next year or so if this was correct. If temps fall back to the previous level after the El Nino is expired then Trenberth, et al., are wrong.
 
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