Mild winters and killer storms all part of climate change
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The climate change naysayers, almost all republicans, are once again pointing out that these severe storms, loaded with snow and freezing cold, are evidence that the planet isn’t warming. That approach, however, is without merit.
Pedestrians make their way down a road during whiteout conditions in Salisbury, Mass. Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Climate skeptics may be chuckling, but scientists say our odd mix of extreme snowstorms and otherwise-mild snowfall is caused by climate change. Apparently it’s all atmospheric physics: Lower temperatures give us more rain and less snow, but a warmer atmosphere can retain and drop more moisture, which leads to storms like don’t-name-it-Nemo. And man-made global warming is likely behind it all.
Statistics back up the odd feast-or-famine winter weather, the AP reports. Twice as many heavy snowstorms have struck the US in the past half-century than over the previous 60 years; at the same time, the Northern Hemisphere’s spring snow cover has dwindled by about 1 million square miles. “Shorter snow season, less snow overall, but the occasional knockout punch,” says a Princeton climate scientist. “That’s the new world we live in.”
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James Smith
February 19, 2013 at 6:48 am
Surely you were not expecting facts from the Great Obstructionist Party?
Their strategy is to oppose anything suggested by the “Socialist Democrats” even if it were in their own best interests to do otherwise. As they have said many times, “It’s more important for Obama to fail than for the country to succeed.” That statement alone sounds like sedition if not treasonous.
Michael John Scott
February 19, 2013 at 8:20 am
James you are so right. The republicans have set a course of destruction for the nation simply because Barack Obama is president.
James Smith
February 19, 2013 at 9:04 am
Of course, it doesn’t seem to be working so well for them. He was re-elected. Perhaps they are really self-destructing. If they flop again in 2016, that might be the end of the GOP as we know it today.
Jess
February 19, 2013 at 11:04 am
You libruls and yer fancy sciencey stuff. How can there be global warming if it’s snowing hmm, how is that even possible libtard? Oh yeah, I have heard that many times from morons who think seas part and a talking snake made wimmin the devil. God won;t allow his planet to do this blah blah blabbity blah. I am sometimes amazed, people like that know how to dress themselves to go out in the mornings.
frankstwin
February 21, 2013 at 12:27 am
In late spring we open our cabin in the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah. And every year it is heartbreaking as we see more and more dying trees. The bark beetle infestation has flourished due to mild winters.
If you are unaware of this problem search for images on-line and visit the US Forest Service site- Research. It is frightening.
This link has a good overview.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/21388