I found this article interesting with the Goracle latest flapping about global warming. I tend to agree with Robert Felix with his theory on ocean warming. Check it out at Not by Fire but by Ice link is on the web favorites on the right For more from Icecap check out the link,
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM
With a major snowstorm in China and snow covering much of Asia and parts of the middle east and a decent snow pack in North America (recently NASA reported 60% of the lower 48 states and all of Canada was snow covered), our Northern Hemispheric snow cover is now 2% above normal and the highest level in at least 5 years. A rather amazing 25% of the northern Hemispheric is snow and ice covered. The next two images come from Dr. Bob Hart at Florida State University. In the first, the green line represents the normal snow cover extent for the date and the blue the actual snow cover.
In the second image the actual percent (black) is plotted relative to the climatological (green). We reversed a 2% snow and ice coverage deficit this past summer and now have a 2% excess (above normal).
December sea ice extent in the Southern Hemisphere was a remarkable 15% above normal and the highest of the entire record as was the case in the late winter (it is now mid-summer and the sea ice is diminishing but is still well above normal). This graph is from the University of Illinois National snow and Ice data Center and shows the satellite derived sea ice extent in the southern hemisphere for Decembers since records began in 1979.
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM
With a major snowstorm in China and snow covering much of Asia and parts of the middle east and a decent snow pack in North America (recently NASA reported 60% of the lower 48 states and all of Canada was snow covered), our Northern Hemispheric snow cover is now 2% above normal and the highest level in at least 5 years. A rather amazing 25% of the northern Hemispheric is snow and ice covered. The next two images come from Dr. Bob Hart at Florida State University. In the first, the green line represents the normal snow cover extent for the date and the blue the actual snow cover.
In the second image the actual percent (black) is plotted relative to the climatological (green). We reversed a 2% snow and ice coverage deficit this past summer and now have a 2% excess (above normal).
December sea ice extent in the Southern Hemisphere was a remarkable 15% above normal and the highest of the entire record as was the case in the late winter (it is now mid-summer and the sea ice is diminishing but is still well above normal). This graph is from the University of Illinois National snow and Ice data Center and shows the satellite derived sea ice extent in the southern hemisphere for Decembers since records began in 1979.
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GLOBAL WARMING MY TOE! WE'VE HAD MORE SNOW , ICE AND COLD THIS WINTER THAN IN YEARS. I SURE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHO IS SKEWING THE DATA ON THIS.
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