Global cooling, not global warming

[Logan13]

OK, so I changed the title...........
Global cooling, not global warming?
AP
02/12/07
The snow just won't stop. Intense lake-effect snow squalls that buried communities along eastern Lake Ontario for nine straight days diminished Sunday _ then started up again early Monday.
Unofficially, the squalls have dumped 12 feet, 2 inches of snow at Redfield. If accurate, that would break the state record of 10 feet, 7 inches of snow that fell in nearby Montague over seven days ending Jan. 1, 2002, said Steve McLaughlin, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

A weather service representative was being sent to Redfield on Monday to verify the total.

Residents of this hardy upstate New York village seem unfazed. Redfield, whose economy thrives on snowmobilers and cross-country skiers, receives an annual average of 270 inches _ more than 22 feet.

"It's snow. We get a lot of it. So what?" said Allan Babcock, a lifelong resident who owns Shar's Country Diner, a popular eatery in this village of 650 people.

However, Gov. Eliot Spitzer has declared a state disaster emergency in Oswego County. The county's community of Parish had recorded 115 inches by early Sunday. Mexico had 103 inches, North Osceola had 99 and Scriba 94. The city of Oswego had 85 inches.

The persistent snow bands that have wracked the county for a week were expected to finally end later Monday.

"We have a sharp front coming in Monday that's going to kick all this out. We may get one more burst of snow. But then it's over. Finally, some mercy," McLaughlin said.

However, the forecaster noted that a coastal winter storm expected midweek could bring another 6 to 12 inches to areas of upstate New York.

As the bands shifted north into Jefferson County most of Sunday, residents continued recovering from the heavy snow. Roads were mostly cleared as workers turned their attention to removing the snow and trimming down 10- and 12-foot-high snow banks that continued to make driving dangerous.

The snow led to surreal scenes. One house appeared to be in a cocoon. Drifting snow in the front had swallowed the front door and blocked the windows.

"In all my life, I mean my entire life combined, I've never seen this much snow at once," said Jim Bevridge, 47, of Timmonium, Md., who drove up for a long weekend of snowmobiling.

[Kärnfysikern]

well if we want to talk about weather not climate....
ski resorts in the alps have been struggling because of a tremendous lack of snow.

[mcpeepants]

there's a difference between weather (short term) and climate (long term)

[Logan13]

there's a difference between weather (short term) and climate (long term)

i know, but everytime I read one of these articles, I just have to post it to get Johan going..........

[singern]

I was in Minneapolis last week, 20 below zero without the wind chill. I thought I was gonna die walking from the car to the parking lot, only to be found by a moose in the spring...

Makes me want to stand outside with an aerosol can and create some "local Warming"

[spywizard]

ok, from 1st hand experience...

here in minnesota, we have 1 week where the high will be sub 0 for the whole week.. 20 yrs ago, that week was in mid Jan..

since then it gets later and later, this year it was the 2nd week Feb...

that's long term climate change..

[singern]

ok, from 1st hand experience...

here in minnesota, we have 1 week where the high will be sub 0 for the whole week.. 20 yrs ago, that week was in mid Jan..

since then it gets later and later, this year it was the 2nd week Feb...

that's long term climate change..

I tip my hat to you if only for being able to deal with those temps every winter.

Now, back on topic.

[mcpeepants]

i know, but everytime I read one of these articles, I just have to post it to get Johan going..........

continue on:

[eliteforce]

There may be such a thing as global cooling, the last ice age was about 10,000 years ago, the worlds history has always been 100,000 years ice age, followed by 10,000 years of climate like we have now, we are near the end of the current 10,000 year period but it's difficult to say exactly where we are..the transition period from ice age to non-ice age or vice versa is 700-1000 years..so we should start to slowly go in the direction of ice age. what happens when the ice age comes? well huge glaciers start to decend south covering northern europe, britain, canada and even getting close to newyork and chicago, possibly covering those areas..on the other hand the ice drains the oceans to the point that the gulf of mexico halfs in size, the mediteranian becomes a lake, the philipines becomes 1 big island and the gulf of thailand completly disappears.

[DTBusta]

true elite.You forgot to mention one thing. We all will be in heaven. That of course depends on wether you are a conservative or liberal.lol Anyway we haven't had anything here on Li NY yet, except ice this morning for the first time all winter, other wise its been amazingly mild.Usually we have a few feet by now.