Climate change? You betcha.

[Blue_In_AK]

This is a picture of my back yard in Anchorage, Alaska, today. It's 45 and very windy (some places around town have had hurricane force, 90-100 mph). We NEVER would have seen this 30 years ago.

[questionseverything]

1. here in illinois, we should have snow too

instead we have flooding (tho not as bad as mo)

[Scuba]

8. Come on up to Wisconsin, you can have some of mine.

[roguevalley]

13. I live 156 miles south east of you, Blue, on the

Kenai Peninsula and there is no snow. There is wind and rain. Global warming is going to kill us all until we overthrow the money madness and greed monsters that are going to kill us all.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I miss the snow so much.

[roguevalley]

34. me too. :( This is some scary stuff.

[questionseverything]

14. lol

love too

[AllyCat]

25. But this is only the second snowfall we have had all season

We are usually buried by now and the little we have will likely melt AGAIN. This isn't right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. But, but, but that cannot be

it is a HOAX!!!! Perpetrated by pointy head scientists... truly... and of course your lying eyes are not seeing right. All that green IS snow...

(I spent a few hours going back and forth with a denialist that is repeating lovely talking points from Heartland)

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. I watch those Alaska shows like 'Gold Rush' and 'Alaska: The Last Frontier", etc., and...

...the participants are awed by the inexplicable changes in the climate there as if they have no idea what could be causing it. They mention it often but climate change seems never to occur to them. Funny, that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Yup. It sure looks like climate change.

Some folks just don't want to see it, or acknowledge it.

[Rex]

7. That is fine, nature will just plow them under like dead leaves.

It amazes me how out of tune some are with mother nature. Oh well, some of us will be more prepared and aware and some will just stand out in the rain and drown.

Hate to be a downer about this, but some have already made their beds and will have to sink with them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. It might be a warm and bumpy Iditarod

How's the weather in Wasila? It's very close to Russia, I hear.



No snow in lower Michigan, either.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. I think they had to change the route last year in order to stay on snow. nt

[2naSalit]

9. They did.

Also the snowmobile race had a lot of problems. A friend of mine was in the snowmobile race and had a really hard time and said they were breaking through the ice where there were lakes.

I'm up in the coldest part of the Rockies, we have a good amount of snow (4' base) and very high avalanche danger, and double digit subzero temps at night.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Yes, that may happen again this year

although they won't determine a route until next month probably. I think there was a pretty good snowpack up north, but it may be disappearing now. Alyeska was looking good for skiing, but I imagine it's too dangerous right now.

[Divernan]

24. Mat-Su (includes Wasila) winds took out power for 20,000 this a.m.

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/12/30/early-morning-mat-su-outage-leaves-up-to-20k-without-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aprn-news+%28APRN%3A+Alaska+News%29

Early morning Mat-Su outage leaves up to 20K without power
By Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage | December 30, 2015

As many as 20,000 Matanuska-Susitna residents have been without power this morning due to wind.

Matanuska Electric Association spokesperson Julie Estey says about 15,000 of those outages are due to a downed major transmission line serving the Palmer, Wasilla and Big Lake areas.

[Squinch]

11. 70 in New York during Christmas week! I know some people like it, but I find it awful.

[lpbk2713]

12. The Weather Crew on the local news don't like to talk about "GW".

I put that in quotes intentionally.

Whenever they bring up the subject they get stacks
of nasty letters and emails from the WingNutz. They
don't even talk about it being a "touchy" subject any
more because they know they will hear about it.

[NightWatcher]

15. It was 83 here today in Jax. We've set records all week

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. North Pole temperatures spike 'above freezing' as Storm Frank sends warm air north

The high temperature should be minus 30 centigrade
for this time of year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/12075282/North-Pole-temperatures-spike-above-freezing-as-Storm-Frank-sends-warm-air-north.html

Storms this strong at this time of year is

NOT EL NINO.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I don't know about "Frank"

but this is the weather pattern we've been dealing with.

[Ichingcarpenter]

35. Let's put these two maps together

And see where they connect to the bigger picture
To me it seems this is not just an Alaskan/Pacific phenomena but a World phenomena........ affecting the northern hemisphere.....yikes

Like my meme says.........Don't Panic.

but shit it does give way to concern.

Everyone grab their towel..

[Duppers]

23. 72° above normal in Arctic!

Has never happened in recorded history!

This will thaw ground in the Arctic circle and thereby release more methane gas which is tremendously more damaging to the climate then just CO2.

We are destroying ourselves. We do not have the centuries left that some thought. It's most certainly unlikely this can be undone or that we can geoengineer ourselves out of this hell.

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/how-much-time-do-we-have-left-halting-climate-engineering-is-a-primary-factor/



I am deeply upset by this.

[Doctor_J]

17. It's fake - a scheme cooked up by al Gore to make money

Are you going to believe Fox news or your lying eyes?

[Electric Monk]

37. Nah, it's really just a giant communist conspiracy to harm the American economy

[bvar22]

18. Hi, Blue.

I'm way south of you, but unheard of weather here too.
On Christmas Day, I was working in the garden...85 degrees.

The grass is greening way too soon.
The buds on our fruit trees are swelling because they think it is Spring. Like last year, I expect a hard freeze next that will kill all of our young fruit.

If this is the New Normal, then we are all fucked.....UNLESS
you let me plant tomatoes and melons in your back yard.

Bad year last year. everything cooked on the vine...few plants actually produced.
I have learned one thing....you can always count on beans.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. My beans did well, too.

Not the peas, though. It was too hot. We had several 80+ days here last summer, which used to be unheard of. In fact, we used to have years when the temp would only be above 70 three or four days. We were all sweltering last summer - we're not used to the heat.

[bvar22]

30. Thank gawd for the BEANS.

I love Beans and Rice, especially if someone throws in a Ham-hock or Ham-bone.

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Mine were purple string beans,

which have been doing quite well here in recent seasons.

[tabasco]

20. Nonsense.

A senator had a snowball in Congress, proving that climate change is a librul myth.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Blue_In_AK.

[Divernan]

27. Talkeetna/Denali area - low snow cover

My son planned to have a week of cross-country skiing in Talkeetna/Denali in November (he was taking a break between 4 months in the Aleutians/Pribilof Islands and returning to the lower 48) - said there should have been enough snow for that in November, but such was not the case this year.

Meanwhile, in southwestern Pennsylvania, my neighbors are still having to mow their lawns in December (unheard of in the 46 years I've lived in the area) and are doing so in shorts.

[onethatcares]

28. I checked into Ft Richardson on 9/29/72

it was snowing. It snowed like I never saw snow before. Sometime in April 73, break up occurred and it stopped snowing.

I was there until 3/76 and never saw the ground after October and before March any year.

I've read about the drunken trees and the houses that are working their way through the perma frost. What a sad state of denial these corporations are in to think what they exude doesn't harm any of us.

That's scary Blue. Good luck in the future.

[Blue_In_AK]

29. Thank you.

Yes, that's the way I remember it, too. The snow came in October and stayed until April. There might be a Chinook or two during the winter, but never enough to melt anything. This is just really wrong.

[Divernan]

36. Corp.s know they're harming us; they just don't give a shit.

All the guys in charge care about is this quarter's bottom line and this year's stock options.

How they look at themselves in the mirror when they shave, I cannot fathom.

[callous taoboy]

32. I lived in Anchorage from '92 to '99

and winter was on starting in October. Lots of snow, lots of very cold temps, and like you said, Blue, the occasional chinook which used to drive me crazy. I remember doing recess duty in the late 90's, it was late April, and I was hating a very cold wind.

Yeah, I just talked to a buddy of mine up there yesterday and he was saying it was such a pretty day, but so wrong. Last time I was up there was at least 5 years ago in June and as I walked out to my friends car it was just hot. I don't remember hot in Anchorage.

[GummyBearz]

33. Also is man mad

Just like when the last ice age thawed out

[madokie]

38. Looks like a good start for a good garden

I assume that is what the mulched area around your fence is all about

Crazy ain't it. It was in the upper sixties Christmas day here this year with a high of 43 today.

Have a wonderful new years eve

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Yes, I mulched everything really well this fall,

not knowing exactly what to expect this winter. Those are strawberries by the fence. The other fence has the rhubarb and columbines and roses in the corner. On the right is the edge of my vegetable garden.

[randome]

40. Republicans killed Christmas. Because what's Christmas without snow?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Blue_In_AK]

41. Oh, great!

Today we have gusting winds and ice pellets. Nice...

[frankieallen]

42. Boston snow fall records

1. 2014-2015: 110.6 inches
2. 1995-1996: 107.6 inches
3. 1993-1994: 96.3 inches
4. 1947-1948: 89.2 inches
5. 2004-2005: 86.6 inches
6. 1977-1978: 85.1 inches
7. 1992-1993: 83.9 inches
8. 2010-2011: 81.0 inches
9. 1915-1916: 79.2 inches
10. 1919-1920: 73.4 inches

Also, I looked up the past years winters as far as average temp in Boston, found an interesting web site.
if someone has historical data that backs up climate change, I would love to see it.

http://weather-warehouse.com/WeatherHistory/PastWeatherData_BostonLoganIntLArpt_Boston_MA_January.html

[rockfordfile]

43. The science have been out there

You sound like a anti science republican. The kind of people that are climate deniers are the same kind of nut jobs that think the moon landing was a hoax.

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. Brew yourself some coffee,

here...

http://www.ipcc.ch/