Not only an eastern WROD October 16. Colorado WROD Oct. 6. Utah powder Sept. 30. And of course Mammoth's second earliest opening Oct. 16. Just :stir: since I'm always the first to remind people that this week's weather anomalies do not constitute a trend.global warming? wow! t2b on oct 17th.
BUT:
Howard Scheckter, the Mammoth weather guru, is among many who are intrigued with the ongoing sunspot minimum and its possible intermediate term climate implications. The bottom of his page http://izotz.com/dweebreport/ currently has an extensive description of the situation, along with numerous references which I'll post here so they will be easily accessible if/when he takes them down:
DEEP QUIET SEE: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009 ... nspots.htm
1. EXCELLENT SERIES OF ARTICLES AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
COPY AND PASTE:
http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/
2. READ ARTICLES FROM ICECAP.US
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/faqs-and-myths
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog ... r_maunder/
3. READ NEW EOS ARTICLE AT LINK BELOW:
http://www.leif.org/EOS/2009EO300001.pdf
ON THE TOPIC OF GLOBAL WARMING AND GLOBAL COOLING....EXCELLENT COMMENTARY BY DR. JEFF MASTERS; COPY AND PASTE LINK BELOW:
4. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... mp=&page=2
AND YET AN OPPOSING VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCIENTIST AND OTHERS:
5. http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar ... ar2_08.pdf
6. http://www.examiner.com/x-13886-New-Hav ... al-warming
NASA: 7. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/scien ... .html?_r=2
Post #4 above is an excellent analysis of climate variability. The author (as of Feb. 2009) notes that
However, he also lays down a benchmark:even over time periods as long as eight years, the average global temperature is not always a good measure of the long-term global warming trend--particularly if a large volcanic eruption in the tropics occurs.
I don't think it's inappropriate to be raising some questions now. 2018 might be the time we "stick a fork" in global warming theory.We've now gone ten years without unambiguously breaking the global temperature record, which the models say should happen 25% of the time. There is a 5% chance we'll go eighteen years without unambiguously breaking the record, so it is quite possible for natural variability in the climate system to obscure the global warming signal for periods of nearly twenty years. If we still haven't had a new global temperature record by 2018, then it is time to question global warming theory.