[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ast week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.

As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:

“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”

“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
http://blog.algore.com/2011/02/an_answer_for_bill.html

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')He may be right, but I think the trap he's in with "average folks" is of his own making. I don't remember "An Inconvenient Truth" predicting bitter blizzards and frigid cold. Al Gore sold climate change to us as "global warming" and trying to turn that around now to "it's colder because it's warmer" is a tough sell.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')He may be right, but I think the trap he's in with "average folks" is of his own making. I don't remember "An Inconvenient Truth" predicting bitter blizzards and frigid cold. Al Gore sold climate change to us as "global warming" and trying to turn that around now to "it's colder because it's warmer" is a tough sell.

[vision-master]

The wet comes just before the ice age.

[dissident]

That the moist air is coming from the south is obviously too hard to grasp for some.

[vision-master]

I never had much luck @ grasping air, but this place is full of HOT air. lsol

[mos6507]

Climate science is not static. Inconvenient truth was over 5 years ago. We've learned a lot since then. We've learned that the entire planet doesn't just evenly warm up, but that there is this disruption of airflows and water currents that create unpredictable fluctuations, as well as more water vapor in the air causing more violent storms. So for denialists to focus solely on temperature while one 100-year storm after another rocks our world is kind of laughable.

[Lore]

It doesn’t take deep thinking or a PHD in science to understand that adding more energy to any system will excite the molecules, or that anytime moist air reaches a temperature below 32F precipitation falls out in the form of snow.

January will show up to be a rather average month globally in terms of temperature, but above average in terms of severe weather events.

[kiwichick]

meanwhile back at the farm....

Australia being hit by cyclone Lasi

bigger than Katrina

and being driven by record high temperatures in surrounding seas

when will we see the first cat 6??

[kiwichick]

cyclone Lasi expected to still be cat 3 450 KILOMETRES INLAND!!!!!!!!!!!

[dohboi]

Hep, that one's a wopper. (But isn't it called 'Yasi' not 'Lasi'?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ7F8i_haok

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/yasi-already-causing-damage-in-innisfail/story-fn7ik2te-1225999002338

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/cyclone-yasi-head-towards-queensland-australia

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'I')t doesn’t take deep thinking or a PHD in science to understand that adding more energy to any system will excite the molecules, or that anytime moist air reaches a temperature below 32F precipitation falls out in the form of snow.

January will show up to be a rather average month globally in terms of temperature, but above average in terms of severe weather events.

[Vogelzang]

AGW is a scam.

http://sciliterature.50webs.com/Climate.htm

http://www.climatedepot.com

[Vogelzang]

Warm weather creates less snow storms, not more. Proof once again that there is no man made global warming.

[TheDude]

Could I have made some $$$$ on a bet placed in the early 90s that Al Gore would be endlessly demonized? Like one of those derivative instruments based on the current temp in Albany NY vs the price of pork bellies et al?


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')The natural disasters last summer -- including the Queensland and Victorian floods and Cyclone Yasi -- have cost the economy $6.6 billion.

The deadly season has also led to about $9bn in production to be written off, mainly in coal and agricultural losses, or half a percentage point of real GDP.

The disasters are also expected to reduce tax receipts by $1.75bn.

Wayne Swan last night said 2011 had been a difficult year for many who had endured floods and cyclones. "Natural disasters have devastated families, cities and towns," he said.

Over the next six years, $6.6bn will be spent providing immediate relief and helping communities rebuild -- $1bn more than budgeted when the Gillard government announced its one-off flood levy in the wake of the Queensland floods.

The damage from Cyclone Yasi is estimated to cost $950 million, much higher than the predicted $500m.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he deadly season has also led to about $9bn in production to be written off, mainly in coal and agricultural losses, or half a percentage point of real GDP.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbsnews/2009/04/24/image4966456g.jpg[/img]
Al Gore likens Tea Partiers who doubt seriousness of debt debate to climate change skeptics

With just a week to go before the United States risks defaulting on its loans, former Vice President Al Gore is warning Americans not to let "ideological extremists" take control of the congressional debate over raising the debt limit.
In a blog post on Monday afternoon, Gore argued that an increase to the debt ceiling is being held up by "a significant number of Republican and Tea Party Members of Congress apparently hold the view that there actually would not be consequences for global markets or the U.S. economy if we defaulted."

This view, Gore said, is "of course, absurd," and speaks to a greater problem within American political discourse: "Dramatic changes in the way we communicate with one another about issues affecting the common good have diminished the role of reason and fact-based analysis, encouraging ideological extremists to construct their own alternative version of reality and defend it against fact-based reasoning," he wrote.

The longtime environmental activist went on to liken skepticism about the seriousness of the debt ceiling debate - and the consequences of default - to that surrounding climate change.

"Notwithstanding the unanimous opinion of every National Academy of Science in every major country in the world, every professional scientific society in fields related to the study of the climate crisis and 97 percent of climate scientists in the world, many ideologues cling to the view that these facts are wrong, that scientists are perpetrating a hoax, that they are either greedy for more research dollars or secretly promoting the expansion of government, and that authorities such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are more reliable than the global scientific community in analyzing the impact of global warming pollution," he wrote.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20083688-503544.html

[peeker01]

I'm proud of you strings.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'I')'m proud of you strings.

[ColossalContrarian]

Didn't he invent the "Internets"?