Posted on 01/13/2017 5:52:59 AM PST by pabianice
New England is likely to experience significantly greater warming over the next decade, and beyond, than the rest of the planet, according to new findings by climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The region’s temperatures are projected to rise by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2025, according to the study, published this week in PLOS One, a journal published by the Public Library of Science...
“I tell my students that they’re going to be able to tell their children, ‘I remember when it used to snow in Boston,’ ” said Ray Bradley, an author of the study and director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts...
That report, also written by University of Massachusetts researchers, found that sea levels around the city could, in the worst-case scenario, rise more than 10 feet by the end of the century — nearly twice what was previously predicted.
That would plunge about 30 percent of Boston under water...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Two years ago, Boston had the most snow of any winter in the history of the city.
They still blamed it on global warming.
IIRC, they were still clearing mountains of snow up to the first of June.
A team of 'scientists' publishing a paper in PLOS One is similar to a lousy author publishing their book through the 'vanity press'. It's a pay-to-publish journal.
This article may be really 'sciency and stuff' - and I wouldn't be surprised in the least to find that the authors went to great lengths to put on white lab coats to have their formal pictures taken - but it is a perfect example of 'garbage-in, garbage-out' publishing.
Makes my carpentry/cabinetmaking path seem positively cerebral !
It was in the 60s yesterday at the Jersey Shore. Snow is predicted for tomorrow. It is a phenomenon called WEATHER!
Two years ago, Boston had a total of nine feet of snow over the winter (broke the record by a couple of inches). Never seeing snow again sounded good to me!
I can remember when they warned us we would only have two seasons: winter and the fourth of July.
They were wrong then and wrong now, just more money in it now and the 24/7/365 “weather” channels need something to talk about.
Which were carefully documented, because people had nothing better to do before the industrial age than log the readings from those ubiquitous thermometers several times a day and compile the results over years and years...Oh, wait...
“And it was one of the coldest on record as well.”
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Very true! I live in Maine, and I feel your pain.
I had five feet of snow in the backyard that winter. Huge snow banks everywhere.
In Eastport, Maine, they showed people on the local news having to enter their homes on the second floor, because the first floor was buried in snow.
We used to call it "the January thaw."
Warming in NE and not the rest of the hemisphere? It doesn’t work that way. Global warmers are credulous people.
In other words, back to its normal state (much of Boston is landfill).
More hysterical nonsense from the Left. Just a couple years ago Boston had a record snowfall - more snow in a year than any other in recorded history. Just this past weekend, they picked up about a half a foot.
Didn’t Boston have record breaking snow last year?
Here in the high elevation part of New England our attitude towards “global warming” is “bring it on”.
Unfortunately “climate scientists” are proven scam artists who will say anything to keep the grants and paychecks heading their way.
It couldn’t be related to all the concrete in the area. Must be something else.
quote “I tell my students that they’re going to be able to tell their children, ‘I remember when it used to snow in Boston”
and when it snow then... and it will snow then, just as it does now... they will blame the snow on global warming.
Strangely enough we know from satellite data that the actual amount of land mass in the world has been increasing not decreasing especially in coastal areas during the modern era. But from compilations of historical data sea levels do appear to have risen an inconsequential amount at a very slow but fairly constant rate since the end of the little ice age. The rate is so slow that the year to year increases are within the margin of error and difficult to differentiate from land masses rising and falling and the effect of erosion depositing more sediment in coastal areas. There is no credible evidence that the rate of rise has increased since in the 30 years or so since this nonsense has taken hold.
The predictions of an increased rate of Sea Level rise over the past 3 decades seem comical when you visit coastal landmarks and find that basically nothing has changed in an easily observable way in hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, the massive glacier formation in central Canada inches forward now towering over 100 feet ... kites and small planes hardest hit ...
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