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Friday, January 13. 2017

That is, near us - in summertime.

6-day total snowfall totals for Kirkwood and Heavenly Valley ski areas were 128 and 134 inches respectively, 182 and 204 month-to-date.

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(photograph of the ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and the Cordilleran ice sheets, c. 12,000 BP., showing early human migration into North America from Beringia)

#1 A Distinguished Climate Scientist on 2017-01-13 16:02 (Reply)

How far south do the glaciers have to get before we agree on climate change ?

#2 Mike-K on 2017-01-13 16:45 (Reply)

Any minute now.

#2.1 An Even More Distinguished Climate Scientist on 2017-01-13 16:49 (Reply)

Left wingers BELIEVE in climate change, and right wingers do not BELIEVE in it, yet most people know nothing about the topic. Facts have nothing to do with it. It is a belief system.
To prove this, despite 1000's of articles and news stories on this topic ask anyone what the current world temperature is? They will not know. Ask them what it was last year? ..or the year before.
They will not know. Now ask them "if you do not know the temperature before and now, how do you know the world is warming?"
They will answer that scientist's say so.
Then ask them the name of a climatologist who supports climate change. They will also not know. Then ask them if they do not know the temperature or the name of a scientist who supports climate change, how do they know the world is warming? They will answer, the media says so. Ask them, "do you believe everything you hear in the media?" They will answer no, but they believe this?
Now, ask them to name a politician and a celebrity who supports climate change. They will know the answer to this and tell you a few names.
Now ask them to Google "What is the earth's average temperature this year." They will discover that though you can find the answer to almost anything on the internet, they will have a hard time finding the answer out to this. Why?
Now ask them to Google the name of a climatologist who supports climate change. All they will get is the often repeated 97% claim, no actual names. Now, ask them to Google "climatologists who do not believe in climate change." They will get quite a few names.
HOWEVER, what you will discover they WILL not Google those things because facts do not matter. They have already made up their mind!

#3 Phil Taylor on 2017-01-13 17:18 (Reply)

Oh I believe in climate change. It has changed many times in recorded history and before. I'm just skeptical about how much of it can be attributed to human activity and if any of that man-made change is actually bad.

#3.1 NJSoldier on 2017-01-13 17:32 (Reply)

That's a nice poem you wrote, but it's inaccurate.

First, what in the world is a "right winger?" No such thing in the U.S. Second, what you call right wingers acknowledge climate change. In fact, everybody does. Most people reject the notion that man is the cause of that change. But, you are correct in that we reject it as a belief system and not as evidence.

#3.2 Jack Walter on 2017-01-14 10:06 (Reply)

Thank you, Jack, for your reply. Yes to be precise, I meant man-made climate change. (AGW)
You are also correct that I am not an American. I live in Ontario which just instituted a Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade. I will pay 5 cents a litre, (about 25 cents a gallon) more for gas and 60.00 more on my electric bill and more for my home heating oil. About 750.00 a year total. This is a warning for you. The good news is that Americans are more independent thinkers, and more tax reluctant.
Regardless, no Politician should vote on any carbon tax legislation who does not know the current world temperature, last year’s temperature, and the temperature in 2010, 2005, and 1998.
No Politician should vote on any carbon tax legislation who cannot name three climatologists who believe in man-made climate change. (AGW) If they do, you will get the same taxation that we have here. As for "right wingers," CNN uses the term all the time. I wish we had more here. :)

#3.2.1 Phil Taylor on 2017-01-14 14:22 (Reply)

If that's your driveway, you're going to need a bigger snow blower.

#4 jdgalt on 2017-01-13 17:28 (Reply)

Meanwhile, in SE Tennessee it's 6pm and 67 F...in January?

Global warming?

Or when the climatological average in January is the low 50s, and you've had years where the temp in January was mostly well below that, that the law of averages will dictate that there will be years warmer than average? Otherwise, you do have climate change.

I'm not complaining, warm is nice, but I fear payback in February.

#5 JK Brown on 2017-01-13 18:19 (Reply)

#6 Jerryskids on 2017-01-13 18:30 (Reply)

I've got a picture similar to that of my Gremlin, Blizzard of '78, when they had to call out the National Guard to clear the roads because they were the only ones with big enough equipment. Of course, that was back in the old days when we walked 5 miles to school, barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.

I began walking to school in third grade, a distance of two miles. I had gotten dressed and eaten my cereal over an hour before the bus would arrive. Why wait around for the bus, I thought. In 7th grade I rode my bicycle to school, riding the last third of the way on a dirt path in the woods where I parked my bicycle, a hundred yards or so from the school. By 8th grade I took the bus.

One snowy day I started walking to school when the school's janitor stopped his car to inform me that there would be no school that day. Fortunately, I hadn't gone far.

This map will give you an idea of how much the California drought has receded in recent months. Drought Monitor_California.

#6.1 Gringo on 2017-01-13 19:21 (Reply)

Reminds me of New Mexico. I grew up in Albuquerque and to the west is high desert. Sometimes a big winter storm will drop 7 feet of snow. Highway Dept. has to run the plows continually to keep I-40 west open. Drive out I-40 after a major snow storm and you are driving down a snow canyon.

#7 Ray on 2017-01-14 14:14 (Reply)

Sometimes I miss living back there in the I-80 Sierra corridor area.
But then not, because modern-day California.

#8 GG on 2017-01-14 15:41 (Reply)

Looks like Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park on Memorial Day.

#9 rocdoctom on 2017-01-14 17:04 (Reply)

Switch the billions of grant dollars to the study of "Global cooling" and before you know it we will be entering an ice age. (We are kind of but the Imperial Federal Gummit doesn't react that fast). Caused by man (American men) of course.

#10 Jeffersonian on 2017-01-16 00:58 (Reply)

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