Al Gore and global warming

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by scottw

35 zoo animals freeze to death in northern Mexico(AP) – 1 day ago

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region's coldest weather in six decades.

Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama.

Temperatures have dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in the area, the coldest weather in 60 years.

Power outages have affected much of northern Mexico, forcing factories and businesses to close. Dozens of people are in shelters.

Posting individual occurrences of below average temperatures is very scientific of you.

What, no mention of how it was warmer in Alaska this week than it was in Dallas?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Posting individual occurrences of below average temperatures is very scientific of you.

What, no mention of how it was warmer in Alaska this week than it was in Dallas?

why would I do that?...Alaska is a very large state(where the current temps range from 39 above to 29 below) and Dallas is a city...you are aware of that right?

the temps.(this week?)...you know that today is Monday right?...anyway, the Alaska temps are not unprecendeted but the temps in northern Mexico appear to be for at least the last 60 years when a previous bout of global warming(because there can be no other explanation) apparently caused a cold spell...

[scottw]

February 2011 highs and lows
Updated 21h 3m


All temperature information is from the National Weather Service. Locations of each day's highs and lows are shown on the large USA TODAY newspaper weather page map. Temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit.
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February 7

•High:

•Lows: -29 at Northway and Nuiqsut, Alaska (contiguous 48 states: -15 at Thief River Falls, Minn., and at Crosby and Stanley, N.D.) as of 8 a.m. ET

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February 6

•Highs: 84 at Kona and Hilo, Hawaii, and at Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, Fla.

•Lows: -28 at Chicken, Alaska (contiguous 48 states: -11 at West Yellowstone, Mont.)

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February 5

•High: 87 at Melbourne, Fla.

•Lows: -28 at Chicken, Alaska (contiguous 48 states: -12 at Berlin, N.H.)

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February 4

•High: 84 at Plant City, Fla.

•Lows: -28 at Bettles, Alaska (contiguous 48 states: -23 at Berlin, N.H.)

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February 3

•High: 85 at Fort Myers, Fla.

•Low: -33 at Craig, Colo.

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February 2

•High: 85 at Fort Pierce, Fla.

•Low: -48 at Walden, Colo.

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February 1

•Highs: 83 at Honolulu, Hawaii, and Fort Myers, Fla.

•Lows: -43 at Chinook and Opheim, Mont

[Raven]

Crabs moving to Antarctic waters to FEAST

King crabs invade Antarctic waters - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com - msnbc.com

[scottw]

we could send the Deadliest Catch guys down to put a stop to this

Why Antarctica Isn't Melting Much -- Yet
Scientists Explain Complex Climate Patterns

86 comments By FRED PEARCE ABC
Jan. 9, 2010

Antarctica is warming, but not melting anything like as much as expected. In fact, during the continent's summer this time last year, there was less melting than at any time in the 30 years that we have had reliable satellite measurements of the region.

The apparent contradiction is explained by the seasonal pattern of warming, say two glaciologists writing in Eos, the weekly newspaper of the American Geophysical Union.

The continent's winters and springs have warmed most, but it is still too cold in these seasons for anything to melt. Melting in Antarctica happens almost entirely in the summers, which have warmed very little, say Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and Marco Tedesco of the City College of New York.

John King of the British Antarctic Survey, based in Cambridge, warned against misinterpreting the lack of summer warming.

"Climate change denialists will use this work as evidence that Antarctica is not warming, despite the authors saying their works show no such thing," he said.

I love that..."climate change denialists"

[Raven]

where do they think all this extra precipitation is coming from............
the desert?

come on over and deny my snow

[scottw]

sounds like a job for the Deadliest Catch Fleet