Posted on 12/11/2018 6:33:48 AM PST by Zakeet
Yep. Temp is incredibly important for snow. It determines the type of snow and the liquid to frozen ratio. A warmer or cooler layer aloft can take the same amount of moisture and temp at the surface and turn your 6” into 2 feet. It can also take those 6” forecasts and make them a total bust of nothing. More times than not those hidden warm or cold layers are the explanation for blown snow forecasts.
Wow, it’s almost like the planet has mechanisms in place to self-regulate changes in climate so that minor fluctuations do not spell doom and disaster like the computer models predict.
Yes, the only real external variable in the system is the Sun. Everything else, including carbon levels, are completely an internal variable in an otherwise closed system.
Now, the level of carbon in the system can vary where it is located, whether in the rocks, the atmosphere, or the oceans, and sometimes it can be locked up somewhere on a very long-term time scale, but all of that carbon was always there on the planet somewhere. Humans haven’t created a single molecule of it.
Global warming is certainly not happening fast enough in the Northeast.
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