The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!
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Though very small compared to the very northern parts of the equilateral hemisphere. This city of Lake Tahoe (in cooperation with the state Of California), push the globule warming agenda.
Even as mother nature say's other wise.
Case in point: Dam the Co2
Climate change documentary, From the Ashes, shown in South Lake Tahoe
_http://southtahoenow.com/story/06/10/2017/From-the-Ashes-shown-South-Lake-Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Sat, 06/10/2017
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Snow added to South Lake Tahoe forecast Submitted on Fri, 06/09/2017
_http://southtahoenow.com/story/06/09/2017/snow-added-south-lake-tahoe-forecast
Even as mother nature say's other wise.
Case in point: Dam the Co2
Climate change documentary, From the Ashes, shown in South Lake Tahoe
_http://southtahoenow.com/story/06/10/2017/From-the-Ashes-shown-South-Lake-Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Sat, 06/10/2017
Red flags and Keeper's of the gates
June 15, 2017 - 7:00pm
The Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group presents a free, advanced screening of From the Ashes, produced by Radical Media in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies for National Geographic on Thursday, June 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Unity of the Lake.
The film provides a compelling and often heartbreaking look at coal and what’s at stake for our economy, health, and climate. Learn more about an industry on the edge and what it means for our future.
From Variety Magaizine - “’From the Ashes’ is an important documentary that underscores one of the most dominant and controversial industries in the history of the United States,” said National Geographic Global Networks CEO Courteney Monroe. “The film explores therealityof coal’s role in climate change while offering insight into solutions that could help revive the struggling economies of dying mining towns and still safeguard the environment. We are thrilled to partner with RadicalMedia and Bloomberg Philanthropies to amplify the complex conversation about the coal industry as well as alternative forms of energy.”
From Appalachia to the West's Powder River Basin, the film goesbeyondthe rhetoric of the "war on coal" to present compelling and often heartbreaking stories about what's at stake for our economy, health, and climate. (fear sells the message)
Unity at the Lake is located at 1195 Rufus Allen Blvd., in South Lake Tahoe. A roundtable discussion follows. Donations graciously accepted.
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Snow added to South Lake Tahoe forecast Submitted on Fri, 06/09/2017
_http://southtahoenow.com/story/06/09/2017/snow-added-south-lake-tahoe-forecast
We just can't seem to get rid of winter. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for snow on Sunday and Monday but the cold temps will be short-lived as the high on Friday will be 78 degrees.
Light snow showers are possible above 5000 ft on Sunday in the Sierra.
Here is the updated forecast from the National Weather Service:
Tonight - A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday - Mostly sunny, with a high near 60. Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Saturday Night - A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
Sunday - A chance of rain and snow showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. West wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Sunday Night - A chance of rain and snow showers. Some thunder is also possible. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Monday - A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Monday Night - Mostly clear, with a low around 33.
Tuesday - Sunny, with a high near 68.
Tuesday Night - Clear, with a low around 36.
Wednesday - Sunny, with a high near 73.
Wednesday Night - Mostly clear, with a low around 38.
Thursday - Sunny, with a high near 74.
Thursday Night - Mostly clear, with a low around 39.
Friday - Sunny, with a high near 78.
I thought this video from a geologist provided a good, brief synopsis on this subject. I like his fact based, plain speaking, no BS delivery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZUZyglfMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZUZyglfMA
Wow pretty significant amounts. Thanks 4 networking your observations.Altair said:
Jun 12, 2017
Edit and added:
Corrected spelling error. Apology's!
JW-UP
Nice Catch.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Road crews around Yosemite National Park in California have been busy plowing and blowing away snow as the summer tourist season approaches. Heavy winter snowfall across the region has meant weeks of work to clear the way. (June 15) AP
Calif. mountain roads still digging out from snow (Video)
http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2017/06/16/calif-mountain-roads-still-digging-out-snow/402574001/
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - There may be no more potent reminder of California's humongous snowfall than the plows still clearing roads that snake across the state's highest mountains as summer approaches.
Crews have been digging, blowing and blasting for months — and the work is not finished, though an approaching heat wave could speed up the process.
"We're almost at the middle of June and we still have lots of passes that aren't open," said Florene Trainor, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.
Few roads traverse the Sierra Nevada, the rocky spine running 400 miles (644 kilometers) up the state that is home to Yosemite National Park. Mountain passes are typically open by Memorial Day.
The only road through Yosemite, Highway 120, remained closed at the park's eastern entrance this week as crews dig out from snows that topped 20 feet (6 meters) and drifted well over 50 feet (15 meters).
On a recent day, the eastern entrance station at 9,945-foot (3,031-meter) high Tioga Pass was buried in snow.
Worst winter storm in 30 years hits Cape Town, causing at least 8 deaths
https://watchers.news/2017/06/07/cape-town-storm-june-7-2017/
Gale force winds and heavy rain associated with the worst storm to hit the region in 30 years brought Cape Town and neighboring cities to a standstill on Wednesday morning. Local media dubbed it 'the mother of all storms,' while South African Weather Service forecasters are unofficially calling it 'one hell of a storm.' Take a look at the image below and you'll see why.
Wind gusts in excess of 80 km/h (50 mph) brought destruction throughout the region, leaving thousands of people homeless. According to the City of Cape Town Disaster Management, around 700 structures in the city have been affected by flooding.
The storm left at least 8 people dead and many injured. A family of four was killed in Kraaifontein due to a fire caused by lightning. One elderly man died in Lavender Hill after his informal building collapsed.
History of Snow in South Africa: 1853 – 2016
http://snowreport.co.za/history-of-snow-in-south-africa-1853-2014/
Calif. mountain roads still digging out from snow (Video)
http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2017/06/16/calif-mountain-roads-still-digging-out-snow/402574001/
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - There may be no more potent reminder of California's humongous snowfall than the plows still clearing roads that snake across the state's highest mountains as summer approaches.
Crews have been digging, blowing and blasting for months — and the work is not finished, though an approaching heat wave could speed up the process.
"We're almost at the middle of June and we still have lots of passes that aren't open," said Florene Trainor, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.
Few roads traverse the Sierra Nevada, the rocky spine running 400 miles (644 kilometers) up the state that is home to Yosemite National Park. Mountain passes are typically open by Memorial Day.
The only road through Yosemite, Highway 120, remained closed at the park's eastern entrance this week as crews dig out from snows that topped 20 feet (6 meters) and drifted well over 50 feet (15 meters).
On a recent day, the eastern entrance station at 9,945-foot (3,031-meter) high Tioga Pass was buried in snow.
Worst winter storm in 30 years hits Cape Town, causing at least 8 deaths
https://watchers.news/2017/06/07/cape-town-storm-june-7-2017/
Gale force winds and heavy rain associated with the worst storm to hit the region in 30 years brought Cape Town and neighboring cities to a standstill on Wednesday morning. Local media dubbed it 'the mother of all storms,' while South African Weather Service forecasters are unofficially calling it 'one hell of a storm.' Take a look at the image below and you'll see why.
Wind gusts in excess of 80 km/h (50 mph) brought destruction throughout the region, leaving thousands of people homeless. According to the City of Cape Town Disaster Management, around 700 structures in the city have been affected by flooding.
The storm left at least 8 people dead and many injured. A family of four was killed in Kraaifontein due to a fire caused by lightning. One elderly man died in Lavender Hill after his informal building collapsed.
History of Snow in South Africa: 1853 – 2016
http://snowreport.co.za/history-of-snow-in-south-africa-1853-2014/
Laura said:
Sure does! Here is a playlist for the most recent discussions between Adapt 2030 and Lee Wheelbarger - a good summary of what this fellow Lee expects over the next few years. Apparently Lee has been studying the onset of the GSM for quite some time.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL51TAr4gmxRDcaXZ6VvldtWsFRSVRzrp3
In northern Norway and Finland it will snow tonight, apparently a low pressure system over northwestern Russia pulls cold air down from the arctic to give an idea of the contrasts here is a heatmap attached. It is a screen dum taken from _www.gismeteo.ru What is surprising are the substantial temperature differences over fairly short distances. Part of it is caused by the night having set in in the east of the map, but since this is the longest day, there will be no night above 66 degrees north.
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Laura said:
Indeed. Considering very high temperatures in Siberia right now (up to 35 °C) it's very strange pattern. Here is a video.
Altair said:
It's already the second week of such heat here in Siberia, while at the same time it snowed today in Kazan and Sochi:
angelburst29
The Living Force
Siberia said:
Warm enough in Siberia to bring out the Butterflies - lots of them!
Since the beginning of June, the Russian cities Tomsk and Novosibirsk have been experiencing a ‘butterflypocalipce:’ a phenomenal amount of Black-veined White butterflies have ‘attacked’ Siberian regions. There are so many of them that the ground is almost shaking!
Butterfly Invasion in Siberia (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201706211054847330-butterflypocalipce-in-russia/
The Black-veined White is a large butterfly which often goes by the more scientific name Aporia crataegus. It has rounded white wings with clear black veins and usually feeds on fruits of the wild bird cherry and apples. The species is common in Europe, Asia and North America, but is extinct in Great Britain and northern Scandinavia, migratory in the Netherlands and retreating from France.
In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences.
Jack El-Hai | Longreads | April 2017 |
https://longreads.com/2017/04/13/in-1975-newsweek-predicted-a-new-ice-age-were-still-living-with-the-consequences/
All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.
Jack El-Hai | Longreads | April 2017 |
https://longreads.com/2017/04/13/in-1975-newsweek-predicted-a-new-ice-age-were-still-living-with-the-consequences/
All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.
Last year was the hottest on record for the third consecutive pass of the calendar. Glaciers and polar ice melt, plant and animal species go extinct at a rapid rate, and sea levels rise. Clearly the consequences of climate change are immense.
Does anyone out there think we’re at the dawn of a new ice age?
If we had asked that question just 40 years ago, an astonishing number of people — including some climatologists — would have answered yes. On April 28, 1975, Newsweek published a provocative article, “The Cooling World,” in which writer and science editor Peter Gwynne described a significant chilling of the world’s climate, with evidence accumulating “so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.” He raised the possibility of shorter growing seasons and poor crop yields, famine, and shipping lanes blocked by ice, perhaps to begin as soon as the mid-1980s. Meteorologists, he wrote, were “almost unanimous” in the opinion that our planet was getting colder. Over the years that followed, Gwynne’s article became one of the most-cited stories in Newsweek’s history.
And Gwynne’s was no lone voice, at least in the popular press. Scores of similar articles, some with even more dire predictions of a “little ice age” to come, appeared during the 1970s in such mainstream publications as Time, Science Digest, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, The Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Popular Science, and National Geographic. A worldwide freeze proved irresistible to feature writers prowling for a sexy news peg. “The media are having a lot of fun with this situation,” observed climatologist J. Murray Mitchell.
We now see that these forecasts were badly off course, but how did climate science go so wrong? The quick answer is that it didn’t.
A Young Science
The scientific study of the climate is not very old. Compilations of global temperature data started in the 1870s, and not until 1963 did J. Murray Mitchell bring together information from hundreds of weather stations around the world to build a modern representation of Earth’s temperature. His work suggested a steady increase in global temperatures from around 1880, followed by a cooling of the planet from about 1940. In addition, satellites of the early 1970s spotted more snow and ice across the Northern Hemisphere, and people were well aware of unusually harsh winters in North America during 1972-73.
Consequently the suspicion of a cooling world spread among a small number of researchers, but a close look at the data revealed flaws in such a conclusion. The cooling was regional, confined mainly to the Northern Hemisphere, whose chilly temperatures tugged down the world averages. In other parts of the world, temperatures continued to climb. Air pollution and the use of aerosols, reduced by legislation to come in the 1970s and ‘80s, may also have been a factor.
Some years before, scientist Charles David Keeling, measuring the atmosphere from posts atop Mauna Loa and in Antarctica, launched an investigation of changes in the levels of carbon dioxide. By 1965 he had found that CO2 was rapidly increasing. A presidential scientific advisory committee that same year advised that a calamitous rise in temperatures worldwide, from CO2-related emissions, could result.
How prevalent then were worries about global warming? An examination of peer-reviewed scientific literature conducted by a group of researchers in 2008, covering the mid-1960s through the 1970s, revealed that papers warning of global warming outnumbered those projecting cooling by a factor of six. So climate change in the form of global warming was a widespread topic of concern during this era, and there was no consensus that the Earth would cool in the immediate future.
Disbelievers Add Complications
In later years, though, climate change deniers latched upon the 1970s speculations of a cooling planet as a way to discredit scientists who raise the alarm over increasing global temperatures. Some contrarians point to an international conspiracy they say is trying to suppress evidence of a supposed consensus on global cooling. Not only is global warming wrong, these deniers argue, but the exact opposite of warming may be happening — and in any case, how can we believe scientists who claim one thing in one decade and something completely different in another? Or who predicted one disaster that never happened, and now forecast another?
The study of the world’s climate was still primitive in the 1970s. Few meteorological scientists then knew how to interpret trending temperature information, and the cause of climate changes was mysterious. The information that climate researchers had collected was incomplete and easy to misread. The biosciences have advanced by huge leaps since then, and many more scientists now study the climate.
Today, with far better technologies and information available, such organizations as the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Climate Assessment, and the American Meteorological Society, to name just a few, have declared that the evidence is strong that human activity is causing climate change and higher atmospheric temperatures. No peer-reviewed article advancing evidence for a cooling world has been published in a reputable scientific publication for decades. Meanwhile, thousands of studies offering evidence of global warming have appeared in those same pages, and observable changes have already resulted. Surveys in 2009 and 2010 showed that 97 percent of climate scientists believe that human activity is causing global warming. That’s an overwhelming majority.
A Humbling Recantation
In this light, the Newsweek article of 1975 is a fascinating and meaningful artifact of a scientific era of the past. True, making fun of wrong predictions is easy and amusing. For journalists, it’s often humbling to revisit old work, especially stories more than 40 years old. But in recent years Peter Gwynne mustered the courage to look again at “The Cooling World.” Writing in Inside Science Minds, an independent editorial publication of the American Institute of Physics in 2014, he explained how he produced the 1975 article.
“While the hypotheses described in that original story seemed right at the time,” Gwynne explained, “climate scientists now know that they were seriously incomplete. Our climate is warming — not cooling, as the original story suggested.” Put simply, he said, climate science evolved and advanced, resulting in new knowledge.
(One of the climate scientists whose research Gwynne cited in the Newsweek article long maintained that some aspects of the story were basically correct. But George Kukla, who had observed the satellite photos showing increased snow cover over North America during the early 1970s, denied believing that a sustained period of significant cooling had been imminent. He told an interviewer in 2007 that “none of us expected uninterrupted continuation of the trend.” Instead, he viewed the warming that followed as a cyclical and mostly naturally occurring prelude to the start of a cool-down that will become apparent in the middle of this century.)
Gwynne admitted that although his article accurately captured threads of meteorological thinking from the 1970s, “I didn’t tell the full story back then.” He left out the suggestive, but not then conclusive, evidence of CO2 increases in the atmosphere. He could not have possibly known that initiatives to reduce air pollution would quickly erase the blip of cooler temperatures in North America and help send temperatures up. Gwynne also said he was over-enthusiastic in writing his Newsweek article and incorrectly suggested a connection between global cooling and severe weather in the U.S. — an unjustified leap. “I also predicted a forthcoming impact of global cooling on the world’s food production that had scant research to back it,” he wrote.
Everyone makes mistakes, science writers being no exception, but Gwynne confessed to feeling most embarrassed by climate change deniers’ strange embrace of his article. For instance, U.S. Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, quoted a 1974 Time Magazine article that asked ‘Is Another Ice Age Coming?’ on the floor of the Senate in 2015 while speaking against climate change — just after holding up a snowball as evidence that it still gets cold outside. Nine years earlier, Newsweek felt it necessary to publish an explanation of the story’s poor prognostications. “I fear that my obituary will be dominated by that single article in Newsweek,” Gwynne wrote.
