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Four Photos From A Frozen America

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Four pictures are worth four thousand words:

The St. Joseph Lighthouse on North Pier, Lake Michigan, on Jan. 6, 2014; Photographer: HotSpot/Landov

 

Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach as temperatures dipped well below zero in Chicago on Jan. 6, 2014; Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images

 

A pedestrian covers her face to keep warm in New York; Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg

 

A man uses a snow blower to clear snow in New York on Jan. 3, 2014, Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg

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And now, some stories, via Bloomberg:

Yesterday’s low in Chicago reached a record for the date of minus 16 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 27 Celsius), beating the mark of minus 14 set in 1884 and 1988, according to the National Weather Service. Today, New York’s high will struggle to reach 10 degrees, a day after Central Park reached 50. As of 7 a.m., it was 5 degrees in New York and 13 in Boston.

“It is a pretty ferocious air mass coming down,” said Tom Kines, a meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. “Across the upper Midwest it stayed below zero and will stay below zero and that air is coming eastward.”

The frigid weather strangled transportation routes around the country including interstate highways, airlines and rails. It also led to a surge in energy demand that pushed power in Texas to more than $5,000 a megawatt-hour for the first time and caused disruptions at oil refineries in Tennessee and Illinois.

The natural gas-weighted heating degree days value is expected to be 46.5 today, according to Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland, beating the century’s previous high of 45.1 set on Jan. 16, 2009. Natural gas-weighted heating degrees subtract the daily average temperatures in cities nationwide from 65, then weight the totals based on population and use of the fuel for heating.

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The cold air blowing across the Great Lakes may bring 24 inches of snow to parts of western New York by tonight, according to the weather service. The region is expected to be whipped by wind chills of minus 30.

“The lake snow belts are going to get walloped,” said James Aman, a senior meteorologist with Earth Networks, Inc. in Germantown, Maryland.

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Valero Corp.’s Memphis refinery in Tennessee had a system shutdown because of low temperatures in the area, according to a filing with the U.S. National Response Center. Exxon Mobil Corp. had some “problems” with unidentified process units at its Joliet, Illinois, refinery because of extreme cold weather, according to a separate filing. U.S. companies must notify the center if they release hazardous substances. Bloomberg couldn’t immediately verify the information.

Record lows for the date were set or tied across the northern tier of the country. The low of minus 13 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, beat the old mark of minus 12 set in 1970, according to the weather service. In Burlington, Iowa, the mercury fell to minus 14, which was also recorded in 1970.

The lowest temperature of the day was minus 40 in Brimson, Minnesota, according to the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Among today’s forecast highs are 5 in Chicago, 17 in Washington and 26 in Atlanta.

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While the heart of the cold is shifting east, it will still maintain its grip on the central U.S., Aman said. He said the weather will start to warm in a couple of days.

“By Wednesday morning a lot of your big cities will be in single digits and during the day Wednesday we start to come out of it,” Aman said. “Things will be much more tolerable by Wednesday afternoon and we see some continued warming by Thursday.”

Temperatures in New York are expected to bounce back to 39 by the end of the week, according to the weather service. On Jan. 13 it may reach 53, according to MDA Weather Services in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Chicago’s high may reach 39 by Jan. 12 and Washington 57 by Jan. 13, according to MDA.

 

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Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:51 | 4308108 Flakmeister
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You got it backwards....

The only demonstrated fraudulent behavious was in the Wegman report and the original attempt to refute Mann's work...

Now, go fuck yourself....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:28 | 4307767 Woodhippie
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Fuck ObamaRahma

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:45 | 4307833 gafgroocK
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"Gun Control" Chicago Style

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:45 | 4307827 trader1
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...because when less than 2% of the earth's surface area (USA) experiences extreme cold temperatures during its winter period, we can declare victory over GLOBAL warming. /sarc

 

it's one thing to not have any scientific understanding and fall for the AGW denier propaganda

it's another thing to have a modicum of scientific understanding and wallow in AGW denier propaganda

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:08 | 4307928 nmewn
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That word again, "deniers". You know what makes me LMAO about "deniers"?  

A ship full of "climate deniers" stuck in polar ice.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:15 | 4307959 Calmyourself
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The SCAM is looking for new leadership flak and the nutjob may have a bright and HOT future..

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/06/Futile-Climate-Change...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:37 | 4308045 nmewn
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They never tire of scamming the gullible or recieving government grants & tenure (like Paul Ehrlich) to do it.

Its not like they have to ever prove anything or answer for why X didn't happen as they prophesied, they just put the old boy out to pasture and plug in a fresh new face, spewing the same old bullshit...lol.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:37 | 4308267 Manthong
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That was two ships, with a third about to become stuck, too.

But you know, I think I might buy into the whole global warming concept, but I think we should subsidize it.

I mean, like it’s a good thing.

If we can stimulate more El Nino’s, raise the ocean level and make the world a warmer, more tropical place, what’s not to like?

And there is something attractive about New York, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles becoming diving reefs on a new tropical earth.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 13:07 | 4308413 Calmyourself
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GW is a net positive where I live by a large margin.. 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 19:19 | 4309619 trader1
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+1

but the issue will be where those urban inhabitants will migrate towards when (hopefully before) the  ...(*#$@%$%@$#!*)... come.  

how far inland are you?  

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:47 | 4307842 firstdivision
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Australia and Europe are wondering why the sarc tag.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:13 | 4307948 holgerdanske
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Must be tough being a global warming lobbyist. Just wait, they will soon no longer talk about global warming, but global climate change only. Then they can run the propaganda on up AND down events.!!

Stunning photos.

I feel for any living sould with no protection!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:22 | 4307987 BandGap
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My family and I have walked down to Lake Michigan a few times over the Holiday break. It is breathtakingly beautiful. Both breathtaking from the extreme cold and the awesome beauty.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:26 | 4308001 akak
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I once camped (yes, in a tent) two miles out on the ice of frozen Lake Michigan, off from Waugoshance Point just west of the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.  It was a very interesting experience.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:35 | 4308039 Calmyourself
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Tough to sleep ice is very noisy, bang boom, crack, unnerving..

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:41 | 4308055 akak
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It wasn't bad, really --- maybe we were far enough from the shore?

Or maybe the 40+ mph winds helped to cover up the noise of it.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:44 | 4308072 BandGap
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We used to build huge bonfires on the ice when ice fishing in the Upper Peninsula. Late in the day when the ice settled it was the 1812 Overture. And check this out -

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/17032

We survived the Ice Age in tact.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 08:58 | 4307492 horot
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The Day After Tomorrow????

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:14 | 4307538 GetZeeGold
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This is gonna be close.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:24 | 4307559 mick_richfield
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Save as many as you can.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:41 | 4307607 GetZeeGold
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We need to move everyone to Mexico.......NOW!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:48 | 4307625 krispkritter
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You mean back to Mexico...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:18 | 4307721 akak
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Tu significas "volver a Mexico".

 

(Pero esta vez, sin la ayuda del coyote.)

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:24 | 4307743 monkeyboy
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Tue, 01/07/2014 - 07:58 | 4307492horot  The Day After Tomorrow????

 

 

Should be Thursday....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 08:59 | 4307494 Charles Nelson ...
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Picture 3 is Wi Tu Cold

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:03 | 4307501 Global Hunter
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edit: double post

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:04 | 4307509 Gene Parmesan
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The second half of this photoset is unremarkable in every way. Should have stopped after the first pic really, but then it gets a little awkward I guess if it's a photo thread.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:07 | 4307515 Global Hunter
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Asian girls sometimes sport masks winter, spring, summer and fall in North American cities.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:09 | 4307524 Gene Parmesan
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I see them here in Boston walking around with umbrellas on sunny summer days too, so I'll believe anything.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:35 | 4307588 YuShun
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Most Chinese women want their skin to be as white as possible,
as was the case in the West a hundred years ago, 
so many use parasols in sunny weather.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:52 | 4307641 Hedgetard55
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Thank goodness she is walking. Asians can't drive worth a lick, especially chicks.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:13 | 4307656 akak
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I had to share my driver's ed car with a Korean girl back in high school, never thought I would live through the experience.  God, what IS it with them anyway?  Just try driving in Hongcouver and you'll soon see what I mean. 

4 out of 5 times I see a driver in Anchorage driving just plain cluelessly and STUPIDLY, it is an Oriental woman (the other 1 out of the 5 is a Native, probably fresh out of the village where they never drove anything other than maybe an ATV or a snowmobile; ironically, the dog mushers tend to have a lot more sense behind a wheel).

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:20 | 4307734 YuShun
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People who grew up with parents & grandparents who owned cars
drive more skillfully than people who grew up in families
in which the parents & grandparents did not.  

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:25 | 4307748 akak
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So are you claiming that they only VERY recently started driving cars in Japan and Korea?

PS: NONE of my grandparents, and only one of my parents, ever drove a car.  But I will put my driving skills, and my driving record, up against anyone's.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:09 | 4307696 Gene Parmesan
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I'm familiar with

the concept of parasols,

I just think they're dumb.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:49 | 4308763 object_orient
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-1 for making me count syllables

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:43 | 4307823 Global Hunter
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That explains the huge sun visors I've seen the Chinese ladies wearing.  Thank you YuShun for casting some light on some of my ignorance. 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:53 | 4307840 akak
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Yeah, I see a lot of that among the Japanese tourist women in Alaska as well --- they all look like they're going to a poker game somewhere.

And those stupid, stupid SURGICAL MASKS that they insist on wearing in public!  What the HELL is up with that???  Rampant hypochrondria?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:54 | 4308120 CrazyCooter
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If you ever travel in Asian cities, you will want one too. Often the air is a haze of crappy exhaust (think old vehicles with out of tune carburators, oil/gas smoke from old cars, etc) plus all the dust and other shit.

In short, it is a particle filter.

I assume they wear them out of habit.

Oh, and my wife is Asian and can't drive worth a shit. She will go half the speed limit if she is concerned about something (e.g. it is raining). I think it is simply a lack of confidence and agression, she would do much better to just drive the damn speed limit and accelerate enough to reasonably get the hell out of the way.

Parking is entirely another matter ...

Regards,

Cooter

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:04 | 4308145 akak
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Oh, and my wife is Asian and can't drive worth a shit. She will go half the speed limit if she is concerned about something (e.g. it is raining). I think it is simply a lack of confidence and agression, she would do much better to just drive the damn speed limit and accelerate enough to reasonably get the hell out of the way.

LOL!

But funny how in the Anchorage area, the drivers, I swear, SPEED UP when it is raining!  And when the roads are icy, too.  With of course the inevitably attendant huge spike in the road accident rate.  I swear I have no clue what the fuck all these idiots are thinking when they get into their vehicles around here --- probably little or nothing, from all appearances.  They all drive like teenagers on the first day with their driver's license.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:35 | 4307796 duo
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the Grand Haven lighthouse used to look like that quite a bit in the '70s, back when Lake Michigan would freeze over every winter.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:31 | 4308019 BandGap
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I'll drive past it today. The lake is a monster these days. Huge ice floes and waves.

If any of the Great Lakes freeze over this year, pity us fools on the western sides. As a youth I lived near Lake Superior.  And back in that day all the talk was about a new Ice Age.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:33 | 4308241 akak
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I can remember standing on top of Sleeping Bear Dune in February of 1994 and seeing Lake Michigan completely ice-covered from horizon to horizon.  It was breathtaking, in an eery kind of way. 

We walked across Little Traverse Bay from Harbor Springs to Petoskey that same winter, but could have just as easily, and safely, driven a car across.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:25 | 4307996 Uncle Remus
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Nanook.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 08:59 | 4307495 GubbermintWorker
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It's -16 below here for the second day in a row......mid indiana.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:09 | 4307522 zerozulu
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Thanks for explaining. Since captcha is removed most ZH's don't understand minus means below zero.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:15 | 4307542 GetZeeGold
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Thank goodness we don't have captcha anymore.....wudda ya mean I'm not real?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:48 | 4308094 zerozulu
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Number of up and down arrows show about half the ZH's are happy without captcha.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:26 | 4307999 Uncle Remus
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Wasn't there some kinda EO banning negative numbers?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:00 | 4307497 dobermangang
Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:08 | 4307521 therearetoomany...
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Yet today they're running climate change stories on the Weather Channel, throw it in just about any story they can, running the polar bear commercials.   All while they are reporting deadly cold weather, intense storms, snow in southern Florida.   

I know, I know, it all proves the theory.  

I recall from my book learning that a theory that explains everything is not a valid theory.   

Of course, there ain't much book learning these days.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:30 | 4307562 Headbanger
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Damn!  There goes all my efforts on proving String Theory right out the window!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:39 | 4307598 GetZeeGold
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You just need to throw a little spooky action in there......it'll fix it right up.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:29 | 4307770 Pool Shark
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Yeah, but keep that spooky action at a distance...

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:27 | 4308003 Uncle Remus
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And you still can't push it

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:29 | 4308246 mijev
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Reminds me of an old crappy joke. I saw a guy pulling a piece of string. I asked him why he was pulling a piece of string? He replied, "you ever tried pushing a piece of string?" 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:33 | 4307584 toady
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Well, if it's breaking records, I'd say that's a change. We're constantly breaking records in AZ now, for the last 10 years or so...

The times, they be a changin'

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:01 | 4307899 StychoKiller
Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:11 | 4307700 Johnny Cocknballs
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGJ0EHdXDc

Best punk opera you'll hear all day, my good man.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:02 | 4307500 therearetoomany...
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Wow!   Imagine how cold it would be if there wasn't global warming!?!?!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:04 | 4307507 Mr.Sono
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We need Al Gore to come out of his closet and explain what is going on. Many people are CONfused...........

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:10 | 4307517 Dr. Engali
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He's no Al Snore, but here's Al Sharpton to explain global warming.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/al-sharpton-demonstrates-hes-clueless-ab...

Polar Vortex bitchez!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:30 | 4307777 nmewn
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And of course, Polar Vortex is white.

So there!...it all ties together!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:19 | 4307550 NoControl
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It's a common misconception that "global warming" means everything gets warmer.

What it actually does is throw old and expected weather patterns out of balance and we get more "extreme weather events" as they call them.  Keep in mind that while we get record breaking cold, Australia is experiencing a record heat wave of temperatures as high as 120 farenheight.

Who knows if the extreme "Superstorm Sandy" is now the norm?  Are all our future winters to be this cold?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:31 | 4307578 fijisailor
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"superstorm Sandy"?  You've been duped by the MSM.  That storm was nowhere near a category 5 hurricane.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:51 | 4307618 GetZeeGold
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That storm was nowhere near a category 5 hurricane.

 

It's a common misconception.........

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:00 | 4307661 Flakmeister
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Nah... it was merely the largest storm ever observed in the Atlantic Basin... 

The fact that the storm took a left hand turn into Jersey because of yet another huge blocking pattern associated with a faltering Jet Stream is what made it very odd.  These conditions would have been highly unlikely in a normal climate regime...

Now go back to your misguided delusions.....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:05 | 4307683 mijev
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  • Your logic has entered a 'huge blocking pattern associated with a faltering intellect.'
Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:21 | 4307739 S5936
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Hey Flakey, no need to explain , just got the inside scoop from Reverand Al. He's on your team .

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:30 | 4307774 Flakmeister
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Naw, I get my insight from people like this:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/hurricane-sandys-huge-size-freak-of-nature-or-climate-change

BTW, rising sea levels leading to greater storm surges are definately part of the global warming meme...

Now crawl back into your hole and leave the heavy lifting to those that can...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:39 | 4307597 mijev
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Sandy was a 1000 year storm. Which means just in the last million years there were 1000 Sandys. For 70+% of the earth 's existence there has been no ice cover. What we are experiencing is called WEATHER. 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:01 | 4307667 Flakmeister
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This is what passes for paleoclimatology here at the Hedge...

\facepalm...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:32 | 4307781 overmedicatedun...
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Flak, as for sea levels not meeting the claims of AGW experts, here is a slap in your face< the first ever withdrawal of a paper published and retracted in this journal..of couse you can explain it, as big oil screwing with AGW experts again: LOL

"the paper – entitled "Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change" – used fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements to reconstruct how sea level has fluctuated with temperature since the peak of the last ice age, and to project how it would rise with warming over the next few decades.

In a statement the authors of the paper said: "Since publication of our paper we have become aware of two mistakes which impact the detailed estimation of future sea level rise. This means that we can no longer draw firm conclusions regarding 21st century sea level rise from this study without further work.

"One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes."

In the Nature Geoscience retraction, in which Siddall and his colleagues explain their errors, Vermeer and Rahmstorf are thanked for "bringing these issues to our attention".

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:51 | 4307859 Flakmeister
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Pretty weak case when you cite a 2009 paper that was retracted becaue it underestimated the sea level rise....

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n3/full/ngeo780.html

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/08/ups-and-downs-of-sea-level-projections/

Yet another example of why peer review works....

----

Finally, do you even understand what you are cutting and pasting???

It would appear not...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:56 | 4307876 Charles Nelson ...
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sorry... I forgot how much smarter you are than all of us?!?

which brings me to my next point.  You're a savvy guy, how bout me and you do a real estate deal.  I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:03 | 4307910 Flakmeister
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Yawn...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:22 | 4307985 Charles Nelson ...
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sorry..... didnt mean to disturb your daily "session" to a 30 year old picture of George Soros 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:41 | 4307601 Dr. Engali
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This weather is no different than what we experienced in the 70s. As far as you "superstorm" I suggest you do some research on superstorms of the past. The climate is alway in a state of flux and weather runs in cycles, it always has and always will.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:23 | 4307745 Blano
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Last time I checked, it was summertime in Australia.

When I was a kid 120 degrees in Phoenix barely even rated a mention in the forecast.  Why?  Because it was summertime in the desert!!!  That's called "normal."

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:48 | 4307849 smacker
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"What it actually does is throw old and expected weather patterns out of balance and we get more "extreme weather events""

Erm. Excuse me.

That's the NEW definition spouted now by the charlatan political slimeballs and their obedient climate scientists, all sucking on the teet of taxpayers. When the GW scare was first introduced they claimed we would all get warmer due to greenhouse gases.

And I vividly remember one Mr Tony Blair, British PM at the time, giving a speech c2005 to publicly relaunch the UN-IPCC (with British taxpayers' money), during which speech he proclaimed:

                 "We Have 10 Years To Save The Planet".

In reality GW was - and remains - all about new taxes.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:50 | 4307856 Calmyourself
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/08/sorry-global-warmists...

Your either a shill or plain ignorant..  You pick..  extreme events at a record low and all these records are compiled by your allies..  Keep pushing, we will push back.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:14 | 4307950 Tortuga
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Say, No.

You're participating in this formum wearing your foil hat and sipping on your koolaide, right. There is a place in Guyana where people like you reach nirvana.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:35 | 4308706 wtf1369
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I thought that summer camp went out of buisiness in the 70's?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:21 | 4307555 Peter Pan
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The issue of global warming has divided people unnecessarily.

Had the debate been about pollution and resource depletion, I am sure that there would have been far greater consensus and collaboration between all parties.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:39 | 4307599 Azannoth
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Ofc but the point is Not to implement a sustainable resource policy but to Tax people to Death literally

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:46 | 4307621 Johnny Cocknballs
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Talk like that could get a body sent to the Hope Camps, Az!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:00 | 4307663 overmedicatedun...
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AGW cheerleaders never address the wrong predictions of the climate experts, they ignore the fear mongering, one cannot take AGW as serious when they cannot admit how wrong they were,that and outright suppression of the reports and science that does not support them, along with climate gate outright made up data.  a few examples:

"1. Within a few years "children just aren't going to know what snow is." Snowfall will be "a very rare and exciting event." Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East

 

"Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.

When it didn't get cold the CRU changed their minds. Now they are saying that the horribly cold/snowy winters are caused by Global Warming

2. "[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Actually if there are crop failures it is because of the cold and bad weather. And as far as the drought NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows that precipitation -- rain and snow -- has increased slightly over the century.

3. "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972. In 2008 Dr. David Barber of Manitoba University said "We're actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time," (ignoring the many earlier times the Pole has been ice free).

Actually Arctic Ice, is thicker and temperatures are not rising."

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:53 | 4308338 Flakmeister
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This is about as relevant as posting quotes about the macro-economy from Jay Leno....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:32 | 4308022 holgerdanske
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He's too busy inventing the last parts of the internet!!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:04 | 4307508 eddiebe
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That's bullish, right?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:04 | 4307512 buzzsaw99
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is #3 manbearpig?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:07 | 4307518 Infinite QE
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Is it just me or is America turning into the land of the wimp? Sure it's cold but deal with it. If Putin was here he'd be swimming in Lake Michigan.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:27 | 4307567 mick_richfield
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He probably has an Akula-class sub in there already.

Sitting off the coast of Chicago, and listening to their Rock and Roll.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:13 | 4307536 therearetoomany...
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I agreed with the photoshop theory....looking at the link you provided, why is it that the all the lines and bridge are ice covered but the lighthouse in the far back is clear with no ice?    

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:03 | 4307674 economicmorphine
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It's not photoshop.  That sort of stuff happens whenever cold air passes over the relatively warm water of Lake Michigan.  It's quite a show if you have the courage to defy martial law and head out instead of cowering under your desk in fear, as directed by your leaders.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:29 | 4307771 MisterMousePotato
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Don't forget to bring your scissors. You know ... just in case.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:10 | 4307526 Skin666
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Global Warming Bitchez!

 

Hahahahahahaha

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:03 | 4307673 Flakmeister
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Yep... that is exactly what is causing the blocking patterns causing massive waves in the Jetstream...

In the spring of 2012, the cold air was in Siberia while we had July like temps in March...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:04 | 4307676 economicmorphine
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Yep, happens every year about this time.  We even have a name for it.  Winter.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:14 | 4307714 Flakmeister
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Winters used to be like this, but Alaska was not simulataneous warmer than the Dakotas back then...

I will post it again: wind fields at 250hPa

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-90.68,91.85,330

and

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-131.41,269.67,330

Clearly one of these is not like the other, can you guess?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:30 | 4307773 S5936
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Flakey, global warming, now climate change. What's the next moniker ?
Your pissing in the wind friend.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:33 | 4307784 Flakmeister
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Go to sleep...

Better yet, go fuck yourself, but even better than that would be for you to bring anything resembling science to the table in a discussion about global climate...

But we know that won't happen, don't we?  You are playing with an unloaded gun...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:54 | 4307870 mijev
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Flak, you should call on your friends at the ipcc for support. Even though 40% of the 95% of scientists aren't actual scientists, the ones who are get their funding directly from taxes supported by the faithful sheep like you.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:05 | 4307917 Flakmeister
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Project much, do we?

Pop question: Does the IPCC do any research?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:20 | 4307964 mijev
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Who cares what the fuck they do apart from lying and cheating? I did enjoy reading their e-mails about how everyone should call skeptics deniers from now on because skeptic implied a genuine concern about the data they were sitting on. And denier would associate skeptics with the holocaust. Why do you ask?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:08 | 4308170 Flakmeister
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As I suspected, you know jack shit about the IPCC and what it does and like to make stuff up because it makes you feel better...

Go play in the traffic...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:23 | 4308226 mijev
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Want me to cut and paste their emails? You obviously didn't read them. I am a lowly engineer but I have been fascinated by the weather since since I could crawl. I wll happily and publicly or privately humiliate you on anything weather and climate related, based on your comments thus far. The world needs more CO2. The world needs less people. The world needs less pollution. The world needs clean water. All achievable goals. None addressed by the fucks at the IPCC. Humans have negligible impact on the weather. 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:43 | 4308289 Flakmeister
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Quit whining and accept AGW for what it is....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 13:03 | 4308389 mijev
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It is ... unadulterated, bullshit, pseudo science. Designed for people incapable of logical or original thought. I accept that. 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:30 | 4308686 wtf1369
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"Quit whining and accept AGW for what it is...."

 

And what would that be...the latest, greatest reason for those at the top of the shit heap to impose draconian rules and excessive taxes on the unwashed masses? Or perhaps the big scary reason to justify a massive herd culling?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:56 | 4307877 Calmyourself
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Keep pushing and we will pushback..  You just cannot fill the empty hole inside can you?  If it was true you would talk adaptation ala evolution of the species funny you all preach human / economic control instead almost like a hidden agenda exists..

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:11 | 4307941 fallout11
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To be fair to it was always climate change among scientists, only uneducated hicks/lamestream media called it "global warming" and it stuck.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:35 | 4307794 Johnny Cocknballs
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Sample size and empirical verification.

Look into them before dispensing statements of apodictic truth.

 

Please.

 

And throw in some Chaos Theory and Information Theory while yer at it.

 

Then stop being such a self assured cunt.  You have nothing like valid cause and effect in a system you can't even begin to get all the contributing information from.

 

Gosh!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:10 | 4307939 Flakmeister
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At least I know the difference between weather and climate, can't say that you have made that leap..

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:22 | 4307988 Johnny Cocknballs
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If you were as smart as you think you are, you'd have grasped that I'm asserting that you not only don't understand the distinction, you don't understand that you don't understand the distinction.

{{You also, it's apparent, don't understand even the basic concepts of Chaos/Information theory.}}

 

Get thee to Wikipedia, Sally.

Men are talking.


p.s. I'm also smart enough to let this serve as my final rejoinder to the likes of you.  It's one thing to be a cunt, but you're also a bore.  I'll leave you to continue confusing belief with knowledge, great epistemologist that thou art.

frowny face!  

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:28 | 4308004 Hippocratic Oaf
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+1000

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:12 | 4308183 Flakmeister
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Long on sophistry and short on real content, I see...

Dropping the terms Chaos Theory and Information theory without any context merely demonstrates that you are posuer....

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:37 | 4308714 Chaos_Theory
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Leave me out of it.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:50 | 4308077 thedrickster
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"that is exactly what is causing the blocking patterns causing massive waves in the Jetstream.."

Pure speculation, as un-scienfitic as saying because it is cold in Chicago today, AGW doesn't exist.

In fact, how timely. Accepeted yesterday by Geophysical Research Letters:

BARNES ET AL.: OBSERVED NORTHERN HEMISPHERE BLOCKING TRENDS
Abstract

Observed blocking trends are diagnosed to test the hypothesis that recent Arctic warming and sea ice loss has increased the likelihood of blocking over the Northern Hemisphere.To ensure robust results, we diagnose blocking using three unique blocking identification methods from the literature, each applied to four different reanalyses.No clear hemispheric increase in blocking is found for any blocking index, and while seasonal increases and decreases are found for specific isolated regions and time periods, there is no instance where all three methods agree on a significant trend. Blocking is shown to exhibit large interannual and decadal variability, highlighting the difficulty in separating any potentially forced response from natural variability.

.......

These conclusions support those of Barnes [2013], namely, that the link between recent Arctic warming and increased Northern Hemisphere blocking is currently not supported by observations. While Arctic sea ice experienced unprecedented lo
sses in recent years, blocking frequencies in these years do not appear exceptional, falling well within their historically observed range. The large variability of blocking occurrence, on both inter-nannual and decadal time scales, underscores the difficulty in separating any potentially forced response from natural variability.

FROM Barnes, Elizabeth A., 2013: Revisiting the evidence linking Arctic Amplification to extreme weather in midlatitudes.** Geophysical Research Letters, 40, doi:10.1002.grl.50880.

We further investigate
whether large-scale waves have slowed down in the recent
decades and find no significant trends except in the Autumn
months, although the significance of this trend is sensitive to
the diagnostic field and the specific averaging domain. Fur-
thermore, no significant increase in blocking occurrence is
detected in any season. We conclude that the mechanism put
forth by previous studies [e.g.,
Francis and Vavrus,2012;Liu et al.,2012],that amplified polar warming has led to the
increased occurrence of slow-moving weather patterns and blocking episodes, appears unsupported by the observations.

 

 

 

"Exactly" might be a bit hyperbolic, don't you think? Not to mention hypocritical for someone who would appear only to be interested in combating junk science.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:20 | 4308206 Flakmeister
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The blocking patterns causing the waves in the jet stream are not in dispute. The cause of the blocking patterns is the subject of active research with modified temperature gradients resulting from the loss of the arctic ice being the leading theory. See the recent of work of Francis et al.  

But it is not the only theory and there may be a number of factors contributing. IIRC, Trenbeth and his colleaques believe that the mid-latitude Hadley cells are slowing disappearing for different reasons... 

BTW, if you ask Ms. Barnes, she will no doubt endorse AGW, the above work is hammering out the details...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 13:03 | 4308324 thedrickster
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You've stepped in it, I am not going to let you get away with obfuscation.

"The blocking patterns causing the waves in the jet stream are not in dispute." Who said they were? You have attributed "exactly" the cause of blocking patterns to AGW.

"The cause of the blocking patterns is the subject of active research with modified temperature gradients resulting from the loss of the arctic ice being the leading theory. See the recent of work of Francis et al.  " In her latest paper, Ms Barnes is directly addressing the leading theory and has found:

"While Arctic sea ice experienced unprecedented losses in recent years,blocking frequencies in these years do not appear exceptional, falling well within their historically observed range. The large variability of blocking occurrence, on both inter-nannual and decadal time scales, underscores the difficulty in separating any potentially forced response from natural variability"

"But it is not the only theory and there may be a number of factors contributing. IIRC, Trenbeth and his colleaques believe that the mid-latitude Hadley cells are slowing disappearing for different reasons... " But you stated it was "exactly" AGW sea ice melting that CAUSED the blocking.

I DON'T dispute the existence of AGW however the devil is VERY much in the details. Your ilk attributes every WEATHER event to climate change and then whines when skeptics do the converse.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 13:07 | 4308415 Flakmeister
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We can continue this elsewhere if you like:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/01/unforced-variations-jan-2014/

I'll check there for a post from you later but I have afternoon appointments...

I will leave you with this

http://climatestate.com/2014/01/05/polar-vortex-jet-stream-and-climate-change/

Qiuhong Tang and Xuejun Zhang, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Jennifer Francis, of Rutgers, decided to look for patterns of atmospheric change correlated with the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the decline of early summer snow cover. Using reanalyses, which generate global datasets based on all the available measurements, they examined how the lower, middle, and upper troposphere responded to variations in sea ice and snow cover from 1979 (the start of the satellite era) to 2012.

They found modest correlations with the behavior of high-level winds and the differences in atmospheric pressure that drive them, more so for sea ice than snow cover. Over most regions, the average position of the jet stream moved a little northward when summer sea ice was smaller, while the opposite was true for the western edges of continents. The high-level, west-to-east winds of the jet stream also slowed a bit.

Those two factors are consistent with the hypothesized link between sea ice and weather extremes. When the jet stream slows, it gets wigglier, with ponderous meanders extending north and south. Because the temperature difference across the jet stream is so large, these slow-moving excursions can lead to temperature extremes. The early loss of snow cover can exacerbate this, as it means soils can dry out earlier in the summer. Not only does that make a region susceptible to drought, but low soil moisture allows temperatures to rise higher.

Another recent paper published in Environmental Research Letters focused on Northern Europe, using different techniques. There, an unusual run of six wet summers left people wondering if Arctic sea ice loss could have contributed.

Looking through the data, University of Exeter researcher James Screen saw that wet conditions are associated with the jet stream coming south from its average position. Conversely, it’s drier when it stays far to the north. Screen ran two climate model simulations: one in which Arctic sea ice was present at its 1979 extent and one at its diminished 2009 extent. Each simulation was repeated for a century’s worth of summers to calculate the average position of the jet stream over Europe.

Consistent with the study by Tang, Zhang, and Francis, the lower sea ice extent in the model was associated with the jet stream moving a little southward over Europe as part of its amplified “wiggliness.” That brought more precipitation to Northern Europe in the model simulations.

However, Screen emphasizes that these things vary quite a lot from year to year on their own, and the simulated sea ice impact was only a slight shift. “This means that whilst low sea ice coverage increases the risk of wet summers, other factors can easily negate this influence and lead to dry summers during depleted ice conditions or wet summers during extensive ice conditions,” he writes. URL

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 13:22 | 4308470 thedrickster
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Yes by all means change the venue, pfft and here is a link to a Yale video LOL. I can read asshole.

You stated categoricallly that is EXACTLY the AGW driven sea ice melt causing polar blocking, driving jet stream excusions southward.

I provided you citations questioning that conclusion (which I assumed you based on Francis), very much a topic of ongoing debate and you completely blew them off, standing by your EXACTLY hyperbole.

"We conclude that the mechanism put forth by previous studies [e.g.,Francis and Vavrus,2012;Liu et al.,2012],that amplified polar warming has led to the
increased occurrence of slow-moving weather patterns and blocking episodes, appears unsupported by the observations."

As far as I am concerned, your posts here on the topic are nothing but propganda. Discussion over.

 

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:12 | 4307530 djsmps
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And it will probably be hot in the summer.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:53 | 4307645 GetZeeGold
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Do you have data to support that hypothesis?

 

Can I please see it?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:19 | 4307544 One And Only
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Time for the government to pivot in their man made global warming scare mongering (which can only be solved with higher taxes) to man made mini ice age (which can only be solved with higher taxes). Que government funded scientists.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:18 | 4307546 Peter Pan
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I guess this is the kind of weather Fukushima can only dream about.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:19 | 4307549 sleigher
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asesblfb4zI

 

This is why its cold...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:21 | 4307556 bdub2
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FORECAST 2014: Bullish 

 

Low temps:        bullish.

Global warming: Bullish.

Taper:                bullish.

Taper-off:           Bullish.

BTFD:                 Bullish. 

Bullish:               Bullish

Bearish:              Bullish

Gold:                  Bearish

Benyellen:           Bullshit

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:17 | 4307965 MassDecep
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Forecast:

John Williams shadowstats states 90% prediction of dollar event occurring first half of 2014. Also in the same 90% prediction..... Hyperinflation, by the end of year.

Are we focused yet?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:32 | 4308024 Uncle Remus
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Soooo, moar "ammo"?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:25 | 4307558 Johnny Cocknballs
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We laugh and poke fun, but we won't be laughing so hard when the radioactive sharknados arrive and fuck up Spring Training.

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:33 | 4307583 Oh regional Indian
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Hilarious imagery overall, thanks for the laugh....snort rather... :-)

ori

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:20 | 4307736 B.J. Worthy
Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:00 | 4307893 Johnny Cocknballs
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I'm not entirely sure - but I think, I mean, if she asked first, and it didn't seem weird in the moment, I'd let Kate Nauta shit in my mouth. 

 

 

 

 

No promises, Kate, if you're out there!  {sheepish grin guy  -- me!  lol}

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:14 | 4308188 mijev
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That seriously cheered me up. I fucked a fat chick last night and I am feeing self-loathing, dirty and guilty today. I let the team down.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:34 | 4308030 Uncle Remus
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."fuck up Spring Training"

MLB doesn't need any help with that.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:46 | 4307619 muleskinner
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Every winter is the beginning of a new ice age and if summer doesn't work out so well, it stays for centuries and eons like it does in Antarctica.  After 100,000 years of snow accumulation at 1 inch per year makes it more than 8000 feet deep in places.

Operation Snowbound took place in 1949, covered 193,000 square miles, snowplows on trains had to be shoveled out by hand after they got stuck in heavy drifted snow, and the Fifth Army was called into service to help stranded farmers across Nebraska.

Snow drifted above the tops of telephone poles, people were stranded on farms, coal and fuel oil supplies were exhausted and people had to burn their furniture to stay warm.

some pictures at this link:

http://www.beepbeep.org/4delos/archives/2010/05/nebraskas-worst-winter--1949.html

 

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:49 | 4307627 Johnny Cocknballs
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Dude that's a picture of Winterfell.

 

Ain't nobody got time for that!

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:27 | 4307763 Blano
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It's too early in the morning to confuse the global warming shitheads with facts.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:51 | 4307637 _SILENCER
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As much as California pisses me off, it'll be in the mid 70s here today. Living in that snow shit is straight up crazy.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:24 | 4307991 moonman
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You live in that craphole and think snow is bad?

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 11:36 | 4308042 Uncle Remus
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Interesting twist on "Stockholm" syndrome...

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:49 | 4308323 _SILENCER
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Interesting twist on "Stockholm" syndrome...

 

I certainly understand what you're saying. I was born here 51 years ago from parents who moved here from Wyoming to join the Aerospace boom during the Cold War. I come from steak eating, gun loving  shitkicker stock. I've spent 30 years in the entertainment industry from music to visual effects, watching psuedo-liberal authoritarian weirdos run around like decapitated chickens, watching the encroachment of Mexico, the rise in taxation, the feminization of what used to be men, the underhanded stealing of second amendment rights, and all the other blasphemies enacted on the citizenry. I've goddamn seen it all, or at least I should say, enough to make me despise the place and the idiotic way it does business. If I had been raised in the Bay Area instead of Ventura County, I would have lost my mind by now.

Just like how a lot of you East Coast Cats get desensitized to being cock deep in snow, scraping ice of your goddamn cars, freezing plumbing, humidity, those weird Massachusetts and New York accents, and being surrounded by concrete towers full of feral negroes, I have learned to deal with the deplorable conditions here.

But man, from March to October, the sun just pumps life into your body like having a Tesla coil hooked up to your balls. The hills in summer, the orchards explode, the hot sand at the beach, dolphins and whales cresting the water, the crazy 300 foot dinosaur trees in the mountians behind Visalia...crazy shit grows here. So occasionally, I can look the other way when I can see all of this. And when I can't, I go to an outdoor range all day with a few cigars and various calibers.

And so it goes.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:43 | 4308743 TeresaE
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Loved your story _Silencer.

And for a long time I too thought the lovely sun might overcome the rest of California's craziness.

But now we have Fukishima and unreported radiation.

I'll stay in the snow, thanks.

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:55 | 4307642 Azannoth
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The Day After Today!    .... say what???

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