Dr. Ricky Rood's Climate Change Blog

Dog gone Great Lakes are to warm.

We need to cool the great lakes off!

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
I noticed that Minneapolis got over an inch of liquid equivalent.  That must be quite rare, given its location near the center of the continent and during meteorological winter.  Cold snows can have ratios of 20-30 per inch of water, so really 'heavy' snow could be light and fluffy up there, and probably usually is.

I wonder what the total weight of that snow on the metrodome roof was.

So, regarding the Mtrodome, which do you think weighs more, a pound of fluffy snow or a pound of dense snow? Maybe you should think that through especially in connection with the series of astoundingly moronic posts just posted.
Funny how last summer, with each new high temperature record the same morons who say no one should make a big deal out of this winters early and strong start posted each and every one of those new highs.what a pathetic bunch.

Still thinking regional hey Martini! Perhaps, you will learn someday.

Quoting martinitony:


So, regarding the Mtrodome, which do you think weighs more, a pound of fluffy snow or a pound of dense snow? Maybe you should think that through especially in connection with the series of astoundingly moronic posts just posted.
Funny how last summer, with each new high temperature record the same morons who say no one should make a big deal out of this winters early and strong start posted each and every one of those new highs.what a pathetic bunch.

Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across US

ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2009) — Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb."Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The ways these records are being broken show how our climate is already shifting."

The study, by authors at NCAR, Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. It was funded by the National Science Foundation, NCAR's sponsor, the Department of Energy, and Climate Central.

If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even. Instead, for the period from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, as the country experienced unusually mild winter weather and intense summer heat waves.



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Quoting MichaelSTL:


And many months this year had a much higher ratio, closer to 5:1. And even then, the U.S. is only 2% of the globe:





So the U.S. wasn't that warm last month. Who cares. Just as they are predicting an ice age because it is cold in Europe (LOL).

LOL! Look how tiny that blue is in that image and they think we are in an ice age. LOL! LOL^1000

See why wee need to cool the great lakes off.

Oh! I forgot and the oceans need some cooling.

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
JF I believe in 'cycle theory'  It's just that it's going to be a vicious cycle.  What with the feedbacks from reduced snow and ice cover and methane releases from the tundra.

We need an accumulator to snub out the cycles.

10 December 2010
Media Advisory: NSIDC Antarctic Scientist at Press Briefing

NSIDC Lead Scientist and Antarctic expert Ted Scambos will join a panel of scientists on December 15 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time for a press briefing on changes on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Please see below for call-in information for reporters not attending the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference. Please visit the AGU Web site for more information: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/newsmedia/index.php.
Press briefing details

Unstable Antarctica: What's Driving Ice Loss?

Time: Wednesday, Dec. 15, 9 a.m. PST
Related Sessions: C22B, C13D, C11A, C44A

New results based on data from airborne and satellite missions show a clear picture of mechanisms driving ice loss in West Antarctica. Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using data from a range of NASA's Earth observing satellites and from the ongoing Operation IceBridge airborne mission, scientists have pinpointed ice loss culprits above and below the ice. Continued monitoring of Antarctica's rapidly changing areas is expected to improve predictions of sea level rise.

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Continued Death of Forests Predicted in Southwestern US Due to Climate Change

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2010) — If current climate projections hold true, the forests of the Southwestern United States face a bleak future, with more severe -- and more frequent -- forest fires, higher tree death rates, more insect infestation, and weaker trees. The findings by university and government scientists are published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Blooming Jellyfish in Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean: Over-Fishing, Warming Waters to Blame

ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2010) — A study examining over 50 years of jellyfish data by an international team, with the participation of the Balearic Oceanography Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) has confirmed an increase in the size and intensity of proliferations of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca. There are several complex reasons for this -- over-fishing and the current increase in sea water temperatures."Since 2002, these organisms have become increasingly frequently found in the north east Atlantic in winter, since winters have been warmer, and they have tended to appear earlier and spend more time in their annual cycle there," María Luz Fernández de Puelles, the only Spanish co-author of the study, and a researcher at the IEO's Balearic Oceanography Centre, said.

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Quoting MichaelSTL:
The Antarctic ozone hole seems to be lasting longer in recent years, even though the peak extent has been lower:



In fact, it appears that 2010 will have an average December extent that is twice the previous record, and 2008 previously had the record for most of the days in the first half (will they soon extend this graph into the second half of December?) of December (at least since 2000, which included the largest ozone hole on record in 2006).

Has everything to do with the longevity of the PSCs...

Colder stratosphere = longer hole event

Consensus ?
I think this is important. In the survey, about 2/3 didn't respond. The author doesn't address why they don't. I have a theory about that. I believe that many of these didn't agree at all, but because of the potential stigma of being branded a denier, they just avoided the issue.
I would also note that some people are easy to fool.
I anticipate that the response to this post will simply be to bring out an assortment of supportive articles about warming as opposed to attempt to discuss what this author has posted, but let's see. The arithmetic is rather simple and should be easy for all to deal with.

Quoting WeatherWx:
Wouldn't "global cooling" harm life as well if it happened? Is there any research that compares the damage potential of colder or hotter climates?

What percentage of "qualified" scientists in the world agree about AGW? And what constitutes as a "qualified" scientist to have an opinion on AGW?

Extremes in either direction would harm life. We need to find the sweet spot and hold it there.

Quoting cyclonebuster:


Extremes in either direction would harm life. We need to find the sweet spot and hold it there.

Yes, "We need to ..hold it there." That would be the natural thing to do.

PS. I'm in favor of keeping the northern hemisphere in summer year around, Cyclone. Maybe you could build a tunnel to get that done.

Quoting martinitony:


Yes, "We need to ..hold it there." That would be the natural thing to do.

PS. I'm in favor of keeping the northern hemisphere in summer year around, Cyclone. Maybe you could build a tunnel to get that done.

I can't do that but Fossil fuels can. We seek the Goldilocks zone.

Quoting meatballa720:
Also we did call corporate too. All they said is they would forward this on to the franchisded owners who we have already talked too. So that is usless, as for the ordering it is not done in a weird way, the workers are just too stupid to understand the order. While we were there wensday the manager told them to fix the 2 double cheeseburgers plain with no cheese. the cook kept trying to put cheese on them. The manager finally told the cook look I need a bun with 2 pieces of meat and nothing else. Even after that he still said not to come back. Their idiots

I think you should teach your family and yourselves to like cheese and pickles. A lot worse could happen. The greenies might start taxing you if you want to eat toast or for that matter even plain white bread instead of whole grains. Then whatcha gonna do?

The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt

by Fen Montaigne

The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the world's ice.

In 1978, when few researchers were paying attention to global warming, a prominent geologist at Ohio State University was already focused on the prospect of fossil fuel emissions trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. His name was John H. Mercer, and when he contemplated what might be in store for the planet, his thoughts naturally gravitated to the biggest chunk of ice on Earth - Antarctica.

"If present trends in fossil fuel consumption continue..." he wrote in Nature, "a critical level of warmth will have been passed in high southern latitudes 50 years from now, and deglaciation of West Antarctica will be imminent or in progress... One of the warning signs that a dangerous warming trend is under way in Antarctica will be the breakup of ice shelves on both coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula, starting with the northernmost and extending gradually southward."

Mercer's prediction has come true, and a couple of decades before he anticipated. Since he wrote those words, eight ice shelves have fully or partially collapsed along the Antarctic Peninsula, and the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula has warmed faster than virtually any place on Earth.

Much attention has rightly been paid to the precipitous warming of the Arctic, where Arctic Ocean ice is rapidly shrinking and thinning, Greenland's large ice sheets are steadily melting, and permafrost is thawing from Alaska, to Scandinavia, to Siberia.

But none of the earth's ice zones, or cryosphere, can compare with Antarctica, which is 1.5 times the size of the United States - including Alaska - and is almost entirely covered in ice, in places to a depth of three miles. The Antarctic accumulated this unfathomable volume of ice because it is a continent surrounded by ocean - the Southern Ocean - which acts like a great, insulating moat around the South Pole. The Arctic, by contrast, is an ocean surrounded by continents, whose landmasses moderate the polar climate.

How cold is the Antarctic? How about -128.6 degrees F cold, which is the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth, as measured at the Soviet Antarctic base, Vostok, on July 21, 1983. The polar plateau, where legendary explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott perished, routinely records temperatures of -70 or -80 degrees F in winter. So it will be quite some time before the heart of Antarctica's vast ice dome begins to melt.

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Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
Flagging that post too Michael, that was sick.

i think that both you and Michael demonstrate conclusive proof that liberals lack a sense of humor. His posts were funny and on a cold icy day out here in the midwest it's a nice break from the monotony of short days and scraping frost, ice and snow off the windshield.