Warming climate could mean bigger blizzards, less snow

cnn ^ | 2/26/2013 | Matt Smith and Brandon Miller

[tobyhill]

OK, go ahead and get the "Where's my global warming?" jokes out of your system. With the U.S. Midwest trudging through its second blizzard in a week, we understand. But while it may seem contradictory at first, scientists say bigger blizzards fit the pattern they expect to see from a changing climate.

The immediate meteorological cause of the back-to-back snowstorms is a colder-than-normal mass of air that's been hovering over the central United States, combined with an amped-up jet stream that's been dipping south from Canada. That makes conditions ripe for major snowstorms after a warmer-than-normal January for most of the Lower 48.

"Once you get into a pattern that sets up these storms, they can repeat themselves," National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini told CNN.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Global warming advocates define the word rationalization. They hedge their predictions in a way that would shame the Oracle at Delphi.

[beethovenfan]

Any “theory” which purports to explain everything in fact explains nothing.

[West Texas Chuck]

"The midwest can expect more snowless blizzards"

Yeah ... I'll bet a truck with a plow on it will get you a free cup of coffee in Amarillo right now ;)

[IncPen]

The beauty of ‘Global Warming’ is that it can mean anything, and only government can stop it.

[Darksheare]

Same logic as “Dying in the desert of thirst, must mean you’re less thirsty.”

[higgmeister]

it's a twister

[cripplecreek]

I follow Joe Bastardi on twitter. He’s a pretty conservative guy and has a pretty clear dislike of “The Emperor” and his Warmist flying monkeys.

[randita]

Global warming (aka climate change) has nothing to do with climate and everything to do with money and control.

Without access to fossil fuels for transportation, people will migrate to cities where they can be more easily manipulated and controlled.

Green energy companies, controlled by liberals, get billions of dollars in government handouts, part of which they use to line the pockets of the liberals who grant them yet more government handouts.

Recommended: “Cool It”, a movie by Bjorn Lomborg. It’s on Netflix.

[PapaBear3625]

And one volcano could mean another “year without a summer” look it up

A large meteor dumping 10,000 tons of dust in the upper atmosphere might have an effect as well.

[cripplecreek]

Its collapsing all around them but they aren't quitters.

Study: Wind power's role overestimated

"People have often thought there's no upper bound for wind power -- that it's one of the most scalable power sources," Harvard University applied physicist David Keith says.

The thought is based on the belief gusts and breezes aren't likely to "run out" on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry, he said in a Harvard release Monday.

But an atmospheric modeling study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests a law of diminishing returns when it comes to the largest of wind farms.

Every wind turbine creates a downwind "shadow" in which the air has been slowed by drag on the turbine's blades, so turbines have to be spaced far enough apart to reduce the effect of these wind shadows.

But as wind farms grow larger, Keith said, they start to interact and regional-scale wind patterns matter more.

Its basic high school physics children. I'm a highschool dropout and even I know that when you convert kinetic wind energy into electricity, you have lost that kinetic wind energy.

[crusty old prospector]

I can’t wait for the Weather Channel to announce the formation of Winter Storm Xerxes. What a bunch of schisters. And if I hear the phrase “Super Storm Sandy” once more, I am going to hurl. Next, they will start naming droughts in Texas.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I can already see it: everyday there is not rain in Texas, or better yet, Arizona, in the summer, will have a name. Oh, the fun we could have.

[jeffc]

It’s dummy ideas like this that explain why they changed “global warming” to the more vague “climate change”. They just don’t want to confuse the low-info voter.

[justa-hairyape]

Except there has been no warming for about 16 years now.

Actually we have been experiencing a massive energetic cool off since the last extended solar minimum began about 6-8 years ago. Perhaps one of the steepest cool offs in recent history. Earlier this month we set a new low temperature mark for the entire northern hemisphere. The record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in modern times in the northern hemisphere was shattered by 3 whole degrees C. That means that we recently experienced the coldest day in the NH over the past 80 years. Imagine how quickly we must have cooled, since we came off that El Nino 1998 atmospheric warmup.

Yeah I know the MSM is running around claiming one of the top warmest temperature years ever, but we all know they lie like banshees and their metrics are all biased. You simply cannot deny the coldest day ever in the NH for the past 80 years.

[Jack Hammer]

Warming climate could mean anything the Left’s cadre of science fictionists says it means — but, more than anything, it means big, fat, taxpayer-funded grants for the Left’s cadre of science fictionists.

[Fedupwithit]

Man, some days I just ssay to myself "Why couldn't I think of this shit first? I'd be a millionaire!!"

Too much snow - global warming

Too little snow - global warming

Too much rain - global warming

Not enough rain - global warming

Everything comes back to global warming, and people are so ignorant and uninformed that they buy it...hook, line and sinker.

We really might be experiencing, in our lifetimes, the left hand side of the 'Bell curve' in terms of human intelligence, ever so steadily sliding toward oblivion...

[Chad N. Freud]

Let me take a stab here at the game of “substitute one liberal lie for another” to show how transparent they are-—

— by rewriting their first paragraph:

OK, go ahead and get the “Where are my 20 million villagers?” jokes out of your system. With the Soviet Union trudging through its second purge in a week, we understand. But while it may seem contradictory at first, scientists say bigger pogroms fit the pattern they expect to see from an improving society.

— are you falling for it yet?

[Grams A]

On the local news tonight they did announce that it is going to be hot in Houston this summer. Sure am glad to have that piece of information. Otherwise I would not ever have known what to look forward to this year!

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Just like how the SF paper reported, in the same story, how global warming was going to cause droughts and floods in California.

[Timocrat]

Look at the graph for sunspot cycle 24. It’s way below normal and is following a similar decline pattern as the Maunder minimum. 2022-2024 could get really cold.