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[Rogerdodger]

In praise of Global Warming...
MARCH 23, 2015

Deep Freeze on Great Lakes Halts Cargo Shipments...
"The trip to pick up a load of iron ore powder in Conneaut, Ohio, was supposed to take four days by way of the Great Lakes.
...within sight of its destination, the cargo ship, the Arthur M. Anderson, got trapped in ice. Two heavy icebreakers from the Canadian Coast Guard eventually broke the vessel free.
It was a 24-day ordeal, and the ship returned to its home port in Wisconsin without picking up the cargo.

“There’s a lot of ice out there, and we need to understand the impact of that ice,” said Mark Barker, the president of the Interlake Steamship Company, which carries mostly iron ore, coal and limestone on its nine ships.
“Last year, we pretty much lost the month of April.”

Cold spells and snowstorms have taken a bite out of businesses across the Northeast and Midwest of the United States, as well as in Canada. Car manufacturers have blamed the weather for weak sales. Housing starts, too, have slumped. And blizzards in places like Boston have been brutal for many local businesses.

Michael Dolega, who analyzes the United States economy at the Toronto-Dominion Bank, says he expects that the weather will cut first-quarter growth by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point. And not all of that loss will be made up later in the year, he said.

“I don’t think it’s a welcome development,” said Mr. Dolega, who is based in Toronto.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 March 2015 - 10:05 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Maybe "It's the SUN, Stupid!"


Snow, cold keep New England skiers, riders stoked into May...
... www.http://www.solen.info/solar/ shows today's sunspot activity at the lowest point since last July when it WAS ZERO!
The 90 day average is even lower than last summer's very low reading.
Additionally, in comparison to the past few cycles, the sun has been very quiet.
the top average at 80 monthly was the top, half of what it was when Al gore declared the end of the world 20+ years ago.



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Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 May 2015 - 03:20 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

May 4, 2015:
Sun goes blank in weakest solar cycle in century...



See also:
http://vencoreweathe...solar_image.jpg

Edited by Rogerdodger, 04 May 2015 - 11:10 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Coors Field Covered in Snow
May 10, 2015


Grounds crew clear snow from the outfield of Coors Field after a wet, heavy snow Sunday, May 10, 2015, in Denver. Groundskeepers are hurrying to clear the snow so the Colorado Rockies can host the Los Angeles Dodgers in a baseball game Sunday afternoon. The spring storm wreaked havoc across the state, triggering flood warnings in northeast counties while dropping up to 18 inches of snow in the southern parts of the Centennial State.

[Rogerdodger]

Late-May Snow Spoils Spring in at Least Seven States...
Published May 20 2015



Spring was spoiled by snow to start this week in parts of the Upper Midwest, Plains and Rockies thanks to a late-May chill. Snow has been reported in at least seven states since Sunday, including Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The top snow total was in Fairplay, Colorado, where 14 inches of snow was reported. Several other locations in the Colorado Rockies also reported over six inches of snow.

Up to seven inches of snow was measured in the Nebraska Panhandle 30 miles south of Merriman. To the north in the Black Hills of South Dakota, four to five inches of snow fell near the Deerfield Reservoir.

In North Dakota, northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, snow totals were mostly light with a dusting to a couple of inches at most. On top of that, temperatures dipped into the 20s on both Tuesday and Wednesday morning in parts of these states.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 20 May 2015 - 09:12 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2015: NORTHEAST MAY FREEZE...
May 21, 2015
This potential for a freeze is occurring later than normal across the Northeast.
If it clears out during the last weekend of May, there could be another frost across the interior of New York to northern New England.

If left out unprotected, the frost or freeze could damage or even kill vegetation that is sensitive to the cold weather.
People can take simple steps, such as covering their plants or moving them under cover, to keep them shielded from the danger the cold weather brings.

Speaking of CLIMATE CHANGE and CHAOS:
This Day In Weather History may help your climate change myopia.

Ohio Valley (1860)
Tornado swarm in Ohio Valley hit Louisville, KY, Cincinnati, OH, Chilicothe, OH, and Marietta, OH.
Damage totalled $1 million; 4 people killed in Cincinnati.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 21 May 2015 - 10:46 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

With a very quiet solar cycle #24, today I read this weather report:
Summer 2015 Forecast: Much of U.S. Could See Below-Average Temperatures

Edited by Rogerdodger, 26 May 2015 - 09:03 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Light, warmth nosediving to levels 'not seen for centuries'...
"There is a chance of a repeat of the Maunder Minimum period where sun spots completely vanish, there are already some signs of this.
"This can change the amount of ozone in the atmosphere over the tropics and a weakening and southwards shift of the jet stream, in winter this leads to colder conditions.
"There were many factors which triggered the winter of 2009/10 and this could have been one of them.
"We might get another year when all these factors come together again, in any case there is an increased risk of colder winters."
James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said the effects may be felt as soon as this winter.
He said: "Solar activity levels, or solar flux, are currently estimated to be at their lowest for the last 100 years.
"We will head into another rapid decline throughout the remainder of the upcoming year.
"On the basis of past solar activity levels it is an inevitability that solar and sunspot activity will continue to fall off the charts in the coming years and decades, including the upcoming winter period of 2015/16."

Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 June 2015 - 11:17 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

SATELLITES: Earth in Nearly 21st Year Without Global Warming...

"Pretty much every projection made by our climate models for sensible weather is simply not at all trustworthy"

Note that solar cycles #22 & #23 were some of the most active in recent history, but when #23 peaked 20+ years ago, solar activity nearly fell off the charts and normal solar induced warming increases ceased. That's when Chicken little changed his cry from Global Warming to Climate Change.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 18 July 2015 - 09:57 AM.

[brucekeller]

LOL if carbon emissions saved our asses. Maybe the models didn't work out because we should have cooled much more.