Re: OT: Global Warming Again?

In article <MPG.1fdca77b200bd687989d95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, krw wrote:
In article <qMpch.109$QD3.6@trndny01>, martin_rid@xxxxxxxxxxx
says...

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:45:27 GMT, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian
<null@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was looking at the TeeVee schedule, and it seems that Jeopardy is
being preempted by a 2 1/2 hour news show. "WTF?" I asks meself.

So, I go to the website, and it turns out that O'hare is closed
for the night, because of snow:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ajJ9P_mAZFfQ&refer=us

So, is it time to flip-flop to global cooling again already? ;-)

California is, of course, totally schizo - the TeeVee "weather" Nooz
announced a freeze warning and a wildfire watch simultaneously. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Please, after a quiet hurrican season (following predictions of
mayhem) and horrible blizzards in the Midwest (after predicting global
meltdown) the accepted terminology is "climate change."

It's what we used to call "weather."

John


Well it looks like there isnt much of a climate change yet. The first snow
in New England (NY) is on its way for the 1st week of December. Which has
been typical for the last 30 or so years.

First week in December is typical for New England (NY isn't in NE
;)? I don't think so. It's usually well before this. We had an
inch or six, depending on where one lived, three weeks ago but that
went away in a day. When we were living in the Hudson Valley we
had a foot of wet snow on Oct. 4, 1988 (my son's 9th birthday) and
the year we moved up here (NW Vermont) we had a foot of the crap on
Oct. 31, 2003. Those were unusually early, but the first week in
Dec. is late for the first snow. A couple of years ago we had over
5' by the middle of December.

Are year-to-year variations over 3 years supposed to be data supporting
or opposing a contention of global warming? Global warming is supposed to
be in the degree per decade or half a degree per decade ballpark!

The thermal mass of the oceans appears to me to give a "thermal time
constant" somewhere around a century should atmosphere composition change
in a way that affects Earth's ability to have radiative cooling balancing
solar heating at a given worldwide average surface temperature.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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