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[Rogerdodger]

One day near Christmas 2011, the temperature was near the 70's.
A news anchor asked a lady on the street about the weather.
She replied: "It's WONDERFUL!" no doubt mindful of the record snow and cold we experienced last winter.
Today, I see this headline: U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter
But reading further down: "this December the seventh-coldest since 1877."
No where in "the news" do I hear about the increase in solar activity since last winter.

http://solarscience....spotCycle.shtml

USA seems to have escaped winter!
U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter
A combination of factors has trapped winter's cold air over Canada and Alaska, making for unseasonably warm weather in the Lower 48.
"If you look at U.S. temperatures, you'd say, 'Wow, it was a warm winter,'" said Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at the U.S. Geological Service and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. And you'd be right.

"But," he added, "in the coastal West, it's been cool."
Overnight low temperatures were also cooler than average, making this December the seventh-coldest (by that measure) since 1877.
Scientists said the cyclical cooling in the Pacific Ocean known as La Niña was a likely cause for dry conditions in California and across the nation.

There's an 82% probability of less-than-normal rainfall in a La Niña year, said Bill Patzert, a climate researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
La Niña has also helped keep the jet stream on a west-to-east path over Canada, preventing cold Arctic air from dipping into the Lower 48 states, he said.

A phenomenon known as the Arctic Oscillation has reinforced that effect, Patzert said.
The oscillation is a pattern of pressure that wraps itself around the North Pole. When the pressure is low, as it has been for most of this winter, the oscillation captures the cool air that normally breaks out of the Arctic and moves into Canada.
The Arctic Oscillation shifted in January, leading some meteorologists to predict that cold air would soon dip farther south, allowing the winter to finally begin in earnest.
But since La Niña can persist for years, Cayan said he suspected it was unlikely California would catch up on rain and snowfall this year.
"We're so far behind right now," he said.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 January 2012 - 09:24 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

"A phenomenon known as the Arctic Oscillation" has kept Alaska in the deep freeze this winter:

January may be one of coldest ever in Fairbanks...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The temperature in Fairbanks has not reached 50 below zero but this month may be one of the coldest Januaries in community history.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the average temperature through Wednesday was 24.6 below.
That's the coldest since 1971, when the January averaged minus 31.7. The coldest average on record was 1906 — a chilly 36.4 below zero.
National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Berg describes the cold this year as "persistent," with temperatures about 15 degrees below normal for much of the month.
The thermometer hit 48 below on Jan. 14 and 15. Fairbanks had 12 days when the low at the airport was 40 below or colder, including a six-day stretch from Jan. 13-18.
The daily high has been above zero for just three days.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 28 January 2012 - 09:29 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

As continuing stories emerge showing evidence of fudged data, we find this update, showing nearly 2 DECADES of no temperature increase.
STUDY: NO global warming for 19 years...

IT BEGINS: Snow Blankets Alaska, Wyoming...

See: Australian Bureau of Meteorology accused of Criminally Adjusted 'Global Warming'...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 September 2014 - 11:24 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

2014's extremely cold late winter was blamed for a horrible GDP number.

But there was a benefit to putting up with the cold:

Fewer Tornadoes!

Oklahoma's extremely cold winter months likely held down the number of tornadoes this year, resulting in the fewest twisters in the state since 1988.
“I believe that those are the only years on record since the modern era of tornado documentation in 1950 that Oklahoma has had that few tornadoes in that time period”
Oklahoma’s numbers for 2014 are mirrored nationally. Through May, there were only 152 EF1 or stronger tornadoes recorded in the United States, the fewest since 105 were recorded in 2005. The 2014 total is the ninth-lowest figure since 1953, according to National Weather Service data.

Nearly 10 years ago, in 2005 after Katrina, Al Gore said a dramatic increase in hurricane's would be proof of Global Warming.
3,200 Days Have Passed Without A Hurricane
OOPS!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 September 2014 - 08:48 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

SPOILER ALERT! This may shake your faith if you're a true believer.

Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere have noticed that a strong north wind tends to be cooler than a south wind. DUH!

Warming linked to naturally occurring wind changes

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century.

The study, conducted by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington, was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(WHAT??? Not funded by the Crotch brothers and reported on Faux News???)

Changes in ocean circulation as a result of weaker winds were the main cause of about 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming in the northeast Pacific Ocean and nearby coastal land between 1900 and 2012, according to the analysis of ocean and air temperatures over that time.

Most of the warming in the region occurred before 1940, when greenhouse gas concentrations were lower and winds were weaker, the study found. In contrast, winds have strengthened since 1980 and coastal ocean cooled, even as the rise in greenhouse gases has accelerated.

Climate experts Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sting and John Trovolta were traveling in separate private jets and were unavailable for comment.

Meanwhile:
Obama to announce executive action on climate...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 September 2014 - 12:49 PM.

[salsabob]

SPOILER ALERT! This may shake your faith if you're a true believer.

Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere have noticed that a strong north wind tends to be cooler than a south wind. DUH!

Warming linked to naturally occurring wind changes

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century.

The study, conducted by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington, was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(WHAT??? Not funded by the Crotch brothers and reported on Faux News???)

Changes in ocean circulation as a result of weaker winds were the main cause of about 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming in the northeast Pacific Ocean and nearby coastal land between 1900 and 2012, according to the analysis of ocean and air temperatures over that time.

Most of the warming in the region occurred before 1940, when greenhouse gas concentrations were lower and winds were weaker, the study found. In contrast, winds have strengthened since 1980 and coastal ocean cooled, even as the rise in greenhouse gases has accelerated.

Climate experts Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sting and John Trovolta were traveling in separate private jets and were unavailable for comment.

Meanwhile:
Obama to announce executive action on climate...

Let's just look at what you so conveniently left out -

The study focused only on trends at the regional level and did not offer conclusions about the influence of naturally occurring winds on warming throughout the world.[/b] If anything, the results reinforce what scientists have known for years: that global climate projections fall short in predicting how temperatures are actually changing at the regional scale.

Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the study, said its conclusions about long-term trends were probably overstated because the quality of data from the early 20th century was poor and unreliable. The results may also reflect the fact that the northeast Pacific is an area of the globe where past studies have shown the "signal" of climate change is low relative to the "noise" of natural variability.

"There is no doubt that regionally, the changes in temperature are dominated by changes in the atmospheric circulation that likely have little or nothing to do with climate change," Trenberth said. But, he added, "this does not call into question the concept of global warming."

The real question is if the forum is looking for misinformation and obfuscation, why would it need the Crotch Bros or Faux News when it has you and Stocks???

[Rogerdodger]

NOAA: 1695 Cold Records Broken or Tied in 10-Day Period..

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Wow. One record was broken by 25F!!!!
1695 Low Max Records Broken or Tied From Sept 11 to Sept 20 according to the NOAA.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 September 2014 - 08:36 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Winter Arrives Early in Alaska, Snow for All Canadian Provinces...

'Where's the global warming?'

Expert says public growing skeptical of 'climate change'...

Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) once predicted a temperature rise of 0.2 degrees per decade - but are now baffled by the fact our planet's temperature has not increased for almost two decades.
The reason behind the current pause in rising temperatures remains a mystery, and there are said to be more than 30 theories attempting to decipher what caused this stability.
"We don’t fully understand the climate.
"That’s a reality that most climate scientists are reluctant to admit."

But clearly the models were ALL wrong.
Garbage in = Garbage out.

And maybe these climate "scientists" are not scientists at all, but merely charlatans seeking their own advantage.
A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages ...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 06 October 2014 - 01:52 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

September Snow Cover Highest On Record In N America...
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Caused by Global Warming no doubt.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 October 2014 - 01:01 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Atlantic Hurricane Season Weakest in Decades...
'Tropics just dead'...

Its been a long time - over 8.5 years - since a hurricane made landfall in Florida.

Thank you Al Gore for the forecast.
Al's Inconvenient distortions:

The biggest failure in the movie's presentation of science comes in the discussion hurricanes and severe weather events. The devastation wrought by Katrina is used to very dramatic effect to warn of the dangers climate change presents. We are told that Katrina grew "stronger and stronger and stronger" as it passed over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico that were heated up by global warming. We are told that global warming is increasing the intensity of hurricanes, but not provided information on the great amount of uncertainty and vigorous scientific debate on this issue. Graphs showing recent record insurance losses from natural disasters are presented, but no mention is made of how increasing population and insistence on building in vulnerable areas are the predominant factors causing recent high insurance claims from disasters such as Katrina. Gore points to some unprecedented events in 2004 as evidence of increasing severe weather events worldwide--the record 10 typhoons in Japan, the most tornadoes ever in the U.S., and the appearance of Brazil's first hurricane ever. However, examples of this kind are meaningless. No single weather event, or unconnected series of severe weather events such as Gore presents, are indicative of climate change. In particular, the IPCC has not found any evidence that climate change has increased tornado frequency, or is likely to. Gore doesn't mention the unusually quiet tornado season of 2005, when for the first time ever, no tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma in the month of May.

It's funny how the weather "scientist" Dr. Gore picks and chooses which weather events are proof and which are irrelevant.
Charlatans are like that.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 October 2014 - 07:49 PM.