while you can't use short term weather to measure global warming's advance, this nina year has been one of the warmest years overall (including non la nina years in comparison) globally and could end in most large cities getting a green Christmas. White Christmases used to be common which is why snow is an important symbol of the season, but latey it is hard for the snow to maintain itself for half the winter. Toronto is in Canada away from any oceans and it often lacks snow at christmas and half of winter. Chicago is cold enough to get white Christmas most years, but if the current weather pattern continues, most other large cities will have a green Christmas.
No it hasn't. Hadley Hadcrut3v global temps: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadcrut3vgl.txt 2010 monthly temps starting in January. 0.478 0.463 0.569 0.559 0.513 0.53 0.537 0.487 0.393 0.397 0.452 0.265 Annual Average = 0.470 2011 monthly temps starting in January. 0.216 0.273 0.328 0.397 0.335 0.424 0.445 0.435 0.363 0.348 0 0 Annual Average so far = 0.356 (note no Nov or Dec global temps yet posted) Note EVERY month in 2011 so far is colder than the corresponding month in 2010. Or consider the average for the first 10 months of the last 10 years, ONLY 2008 is lower than 2011. 2001 = 0.4067 2002 = 0.4731 2003 = 0.4663 2004 = 0.4422 2005 = 0.4848 2006 = 0.4142 2007 = 0.427 2008 = 0.3226 2009 = 0.4371 2010 = 0.4926 2011 = 0.356
Extreme cold weather has only to do with weather and forces that are beyond our control. It is fun to laugh at how wrong the alarmunists are, however.
I wouldn't focus on year-to-year trends, guys. I myself have tended to be on the skeptical side regarding these climate claims, but there's now very strong and thoroughly-corroborated evidence (multiple investigations using multiple completely different methods) that overall global temperatures climbed dramatically over the last 100 years, and have been higher in recent years than at any time in the last 1000. Look up the "hockey stick phenomenon" or read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy It's getting increasingly difficult to brush this stuff aside. Apparently the problem is now looking even worse than climate scientists were expecting, and if we continue along this path for a few more decades and pass the tipping point, there will be a catastrophic and irreversible change in the global climate. All the same, we need a climate pact which will actually reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and not simply chase manufacturing jobs to countries with even looser pollution standards.
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I blame the Christians for fetishizing the appearance of frozen precipitation on the birthday of their favorite mythical character.
Look, the one time we had a white New Year's here...nobody in Houston knows how to drive on it sober , ok??? I don't want a repeat showing of "drunks on ice."Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I just found out on accuweather that the white Christmas 'dream' is based on Christmases from the litle ice age in the 1800's. since then, most needed luck to have a white Christmas because chances are small in almost all major cities in the US.
