Here in southwestern Sweden the winter has been long and cold - most winters the last decades have been more or less snow-less, but often below freezing. The little snow we usually have arrive around January 1st, and stays for a week, or so, then melts, and then we get some more, which quickly disappears. Here we had an unusually dry autumn, in some places record-settingly warm, and all here in the south thought we would not get any winter at all. But early in December the snow arrived (so we had a white Christmas - very rare event here), and it is still here (even if some of it has melted inbetween, no bare surfaces), and we've been warned that a snow storm might be approaching! Passing through Amsterdam, on our way to, and back from, Thailand, we've seen that they have been blessed/cursed with even more snow than we, which must be an utterly rare event! In conclusion, it is evident that the jet streams have moved elsewhere than their usual routes this winter, resulting in the Vancouver Winter Olympics taking place on man-made, or man-transported, snow. The world is out of synch, I think! All the best, Tord PS Yesterday a woman ski sprinter fell off the track, which was built on-top of a series of aluminium boxes, so she fell about nine feet, onto the bare ground, consisting of rocks, and more boxes. The gutsy lady, with broken/bruised ribs and molested inner organs, did non the less continue to compete, if not win! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Tord <tord_at_mindless.com> wrote: > Here in southwestern Sweden the winter has been long and cold > Global waring is alive and well in the Northwestern area of North America. Except for a bitterly cold December (with temperatures just above zero Fahrenheit) we're pretty much warm and cozy; if a bit wetter than usual. I would like it more if it hadn't screwed up cross-country skiing. Today they say it will be sunshine and very close to 60F when normal temps in mid-February would be 30-deg (F) cooler. But there was a lot of newer snow in the mountains from a big weather system that pumped through over the weekend. It was nice to see that as I drove west on I-90 yesterday. Speaking of cross-country (Nordic) skiing, the coverage on NBC of this facet of the Winter Olympics has been much better than ever before. As a result we were treated to the unusual sight of that female Nordic skier taking a nasty fall (into a culvert). The Nordic sprints were pretty exciting to watch, too. I just wish they'd cover paddling events as well for the Summer Olympics. Maybe in 3-1/2 years they will. Even with the warmer temperatures I have not been paddling. This is partly due to the rocks that litter my "beach" when the lake is at winter elevations and partly due to the fact that the water temp is still in the low 30s. Getting into, and back out of, a kayak is always a difficult thing for me to accomplish and doing it while the kayak is balanced on rocks surrounded by frigid water is, to say the least, a bit off-putting. Tord.... hope your mom is doing well. We're thinking of her, here. :) Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Perhaps global warming got lost in the shuffle of papers on Professor Phil Jones desk at GW Central! Apparently he has trouble keeping track of his data and such! *http://tinyurl.com/yb2loyt* He does answer Tord's question somewhat by stating there has been no statistically significant warming for 15 years--don't know if he went on to explain how that fits into the GW climate models with the CO2 still rising. I was interested to read he's not so keen on totally dismissing the Medievel Warming Period as an indicator that any current warming may just be part of a normal earth cycle. As he seems to have lost some of the crucial data, perhaps he won't be helping to straighten things out. Mark--who admits he's not partial to equations On 2/18/2010 1:18 AM, Tord wrote: > In conclusion, it is evident that the jet streams have moved elsewhere > than their usual routes this winter, resulting in the Vancouver Winter > Olympics taking place on man-made, or man-transported, snow. > > The world is out of synch, I think! > > All the best, > > Tord *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Here's what Professor Jones actually said. Note that what he means by "significant" is not what most of us mean by the word. To minimize "noise" in climate data from volcanic eruptions, periodic events such as El Nino and such, climatologists prefer to look for trends over 30-year periods rather than the 15 in the question. Paddlewisers who understand statistics can probably explain this better. For the complete interview, go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm. "B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming" "Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods." Chuck Holst ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perhaps global warming got lost in the shuffle of papers on Professor Phil Jones desk at GW Central! Apparently he has trouble keeping track of his data and such! *http://tinyurl.com/yb2loyt* He does answer Tord's question somewhat by stating there has been no statistically significant warming for 15 years--don't know if he went on to explain how that fits into the GW climate models with the CO2 still rising. I was interested to read he's not so keen on totally dismissing the Medievel Warming Period as an indicator that any current warming may just be part of a normal earth cycle. As he seems to have lost some of the crucial data, perhaps he won't be helping to straighten things out. Mark--who admits he's not partial to equations __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4878 (20100218) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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