It's at 62. We walk around with coats on.
62? Montana? Nearly 2 months after solstice. That means you have your heater going full blast!
It's at 62. We walk around with coats on.
Not political, just a thread for some science geeks to have a conversation. It also revolves around our love of snow and wish for snowy winters to continue.Seems that lately there are bloggers who are getting political. Really sad to me and I wish it would stop. I come here to share the fun of skiing. If I want to depress myself with politics and social justice, there are other places for that.
All I want to know is how can I get colder winters?
Not political, just a thread for some science geeks to have a conversation. It also revolves around our love of snow and wish for snowy winters to continue
Come on. Any discussion of climate change is political unless the participants are all like minded - and even then. I just see a trend developing with this and a recent long discussion of social justice. I'm hoping that it gets nipped in the bud. Maybe a compromise would be to have a category for political posts. Then I'll know not to read them.
As you know, communities like this are like a buffet. There will be some things on the buffet that you like and some that you don't.
I meant in winter. Now it's hot except at night. We're not running any heat or air right now. Just open at night to let the cold air in, then shut everything up at 8am. Stays okay until bedtime. We just have to hope the nighttime air isn't smoky. That's getting iffy.62? Montana? Nearly 2 months after solstice. That means you have your heater going full blast!
Sometimes I think mankind is so narcisstic - our species is not even a spec of sand on the beaches ofx the world compared to the time our planet has existed both in cold, warm and all the variations in between. This little trend will continue.
This is probably a moot point, but many people like to correlate climate change to increasing weather unpredictability - someone earlier in this thread pointed out, rightly so, that weather and climate are different. But there are a whole lot of other indicators of climate change that point to a warming planet etc that have nothing to do with weather per se. Weather is always difficult to correllate to climate change, so perhaps we should be looking beyond weather for other indicators. As my SO points out (he's a microbial ecologist who studies high arctic hydrosystems, including oceans and glaciers), what we really should be looking at is not weather, but decreasing sea ice, and consequent decreasing biodiversity - which has a huge effect on the acceleration of warming (and again, this is water warming, not necessarily air). He argues that decreasing sea ice is one of the most important indicators of what our climate future holds:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddar...l-sea-ice-diminishing-despite-antarctic-gains
He himself has monitored not only the increasingly small presence of multi-year ice (necessary for reflecting heat), but also the dramatic difference in microbial composition of the seas as a result of a lack of multi-year ice. By not having multi-year ice, we're dramatically changing the microbial composition of the seas (http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v6/n1/full/ismej201176a.html), which also means that the carbon cycle on earth is being dramatically altered. For me, the bigger question is not: can we see patterns in weather change that correlate to climate change, but rather, how are we fundamentally altering basic planetary processes, like carbon cycling...
For me, there are more interesting and more convincing data sets than temperature or snowpack change, I guess...
Armchair meteorologists and weather observers, or those who cherry-pick just a few data sets, aren't seeing the whole picture.
It's just, in the meantime, there are billions of people, a large fraction of whom will suffer and possibly die if the water level rises by a meter or two.
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It's just, in the meantime, there are billions of people, a large fraction of whom will suffer and possibly die if the water level rises by a meter or two.
This is quite the alarming statement and I'm not sure there is any evidence that points to it being even remotely true.