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[diogenes227]

Sewage

Sort of a "if life deals you a lemon, make lemonade" situation.

Excerpt from the link:

This coming ski season, the resort, Arizona Snowbowl, will become the first ski resort in the world to use 100 percent sewage effluent to make artificial snow.

“It’s a disaster, culturally and environmentally,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs. He worries about the impact on the delicate alpine tundra and to human health should skiers fall into the treated sewer-water snow and ingest it.

The United States Forest Service, which owns the land where the resort is, says the treated water meets the highest standards — just below drinking water — and is already used to irrigate golf courses, soccer fields and parks, according to Corbin Newman, a regional forester.

“Snow-making has become necessary because of climate change,” he said. It allows for a more consistent ski season, bringing money into neighboring Flagstaff, which contracted to sell Snowbowl the water from its sewage treatment plant.

[Rogerdodger]

It's almost like there are weather cycles.
But believers have selective memories, so they forget the reality from just 14 months ago when sun activity was at a minimum:
'783 inches of snow this season smashed the old record of 688 inches set in the winter of 1983-84.
By the time the resort closes for the season after Monday’s holiday, it will have been open a record 202 days."

West weather turns July 4 into skier’s paradise
by Robin Hindry - Associated Press
Jul 04, 2011
As the Fourth of July weekend kicks off, people across the West are donning shorts, bikini tops and Hawaiian shirts — and then they’re hitting the slopes.
Ski resorts from California to Colorado opened for the weekend to take advantage of an unusual combination of dense lingering snow from late-season storms in the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies and a high-pressure system ushering in warm air from the east.

Resort operators were reporting large crowds, balmy temperatures and plenty of bare skin.
“I’ve seen bathing suits, funny costumes like Hawaiian skirts and silver sequined pants. Shorts are very standard today,” said Rachael Woods, a spokeswoman for California’s Alpine Meadows, which has offered Independence Day skiing just one other time in its 50-year history. “People are coming off the slopes and putting on flip-flops.”
The weather at the base of the mountain was in the upper 50s.
At Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, 783 inches of snow this season smashed the old record of 688 inches set in the winter of 1983-84. By the time the resort closes for the season after Monday’s holiday, it will have been open a record 202 days.

http://dailysparkstr...ies_left_column

PS: It has been said that this lingering cold running into the heat has caused record tornado outbreaks and may have the same effect with hurricanes this fall. TWT

Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 September 2012 - 08:57 PM.

[stocks]

Europe’s Media Won't Report Record High Antarctic Sea Ice

The media in the Northern hemisphere seem to have forgotten the fact that there is another half to the globe – it’s called the Southern Hemisphere and it also has a polar ice cap.
(Antarctic cap has 9 times more ice than Arctic. There is enough ice on Antarctica to bury the United States under nearly two miles of ice)

Pretty tough to spin 19.5 million sq km of ice forming around Antarctica. Best to keep their readers uninformed. Informed readers, after all, are the last thing they want.


http://notrickszone....arctic-sea-ice/

[salsabob]

AS noted here -

http://www.traders-t...?...st&p=619326

- global warming over the last several decades is now a fact as shown by the BEST study conducted by a former skeptic and funded by the Koch brothers.

A sign of the truly and desperately ignorant skeptics are those that talk about snowfall and antarctic ice sheets – while somewhat complicate, it is not rocket science to show how these are consistent with global warming. However, the absolutely hopeless skeptics are those that still cling to their faith that the globe is not in a decades-long warming trend; what next, a return to whining about ‘scandalous’ e-mails???

The smarter skeptics have moved on to the real issues of (1) whether the decades warming is within the range of historically longer term cycle variations and (2) the related issues of whether the warming is anthropogenic. Personally, I am agnostic and await further scientific progress on these matters.

However, there already is an interesting conclusion one can draw from the discourse on these remaining issues. Given the skeptics being utterly wrong about poor temperature measurements as well as the actual global warming, one would think they would be more humble in asserting with absolute certainty their beliefs regarding these remaining issues. The degree that they express their certainty, therefore, has become a pretty good indicator of whether they are interested in actually arriving at the truth or just in blindly pushing their ideology.

[diogenes227]

The movie is called:

CHASING ICE

Maybe it should be called "Goodbye, Florida."

[diogenes227]

As climate change continues to heat up up northern Canada, local hockey rinks can no longer rely on nature making ice:

CANADIAN HOCKEY RINKS TURN TO COOLING SYSTEMS

“We used to have natural ice in the arena in October, but that hasn’t happened for a long time,” said Mike Hayward, a Cape Dorset town official. Now the ice isn’t fit for hockey until mid-January, he said. That is why a cooling system is being installed in the building.

The Canadian environmental ministry reports that the country is warming more than twice as fast as the world as a whole, with annual average temperatures in Canada up about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit since 1948. The warming in winter is even faster, almost 6 degrees Fahrenheit over the same period, and scientists have documented a substantially shorter outdoor skating season as a result.

A study published last year by climate scientists at McGill and Concordia universities in Montreal warned that natural ice for skating could disappear from southern Alberta and British Columbia by midcentury and be significantly diminished throughout the rest of the country.

“The ability to skate and play hockey outdoors is a critical component of Canadian identity and culture,” the study said. “Wayne Gretzky learned to skate on a backyard skating rink; our results imply that such opportunities may not be available to future generations of Canadian children.”

[Rogerdodger]

SHHH... Don't tell anybody, but..."It's almost like there are weather cycles."

From this week's curiously overlooked weather news:

CHINA'S COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES HITS NEW LOWS...
BEIJING (AP) -- China is experiencing unusual chills this winter with its national average temperature hitting the lowest in 28 years, and snow and ice have closed highways, canceled flights, stranded tourists and knocked out power in several provinces.
China Meteorological Administration on Friday said the national average was -3.8 degrees Celsius (25 degrees Fahrenheit) since late November, the coldest in nearly three decades.

1,000 Ships frozen in ice...
Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend.

Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits




'Cash for Clunkers' Actually Hurt the Environment

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 January 2013 - 12:28 PM.

[diogenes227]

SHHH... Don't tell anybody, but..."It's almost like there are weather cycles."

Yes, and getting more and more severe, possibly a symptom of uh...uh...uh...

[Rogerdodger]

SHHH... Don't tell anybody, but..."It's almost like there are weather cycles."

Yes, and getting more and more severe, possibly a symptom of uh...uh...uh...

If you take a very short view of weather history it may look that way.
That's what confused Chicken Little.
But headlines such as "Coldest in Decades", or "Hottest in Decades" hardly qualifies as worthy of noticing in a less myopic view.

I live in the middle of the United States...it used to be an ocean bed!
Then cavemen invented the SUV, ran over the dinosaurs to make more oil, melted the glaciers in Yosemite and changed everything.


BREAKING NEWS:
Yosemite Valley Glaciers have disappeared.
Only a small puddle left remaining!

In this revealing photo, the absolute proof of global warning can be seen as nothing is left of a millenniums old glacier except for a few rocks, rounded by the tragic collapse of the glacier and a small puddle on the canyon floor.
In the background you can see the huge granite walls collapsing, being destroyed now by mountain climbers in search of antidotes for their anecdotes. LINK

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 January 2013 - 01:29 PM.

[stocks]

Northern Hemisphere December snow extent was the greatest on record, and has increased by more than 20,000 Manhattans since the 1960s.

Climate change is changing climate; proof of climate change. Climate never used to change.
Without climate change we would never have changing climate.
If climate stops changing, then climate change would stop.



http://stevengoddard...rd-in-december/