Originally posted by phoenixvision wow...wow....wow! That is just razy...100 inches.....global warming really should be renamed global weirding....such strange patterns.....anyway....I can smell the cut grass and hear the crack of the bat....
Actually, this winter is more or less what global warming should produce: warmer toward the poles (hence all the melting both Arctic and Antarctic); not much temp change in equatorial regions but perhaps more rain; with modest warming and generally tumultuous weather along mid-latitudes. Record and near-record cold and snow in the northeaster USA at the same time there's been no snow and temps in the 40's around Billings MT and well above average temps, below average snow in Alaska. Next winter the NE may be exceptionally warm & dry while Idaho, Montana, Dakotas etc. get clobbered. Just such extremes in "temperate" latitudes are what global warming should generate. Global warming deniers generally only see what is happening in their backyard this week, but compare averages across the entire country for several years and the pattern/trend is clear. However, one of my favorite platitudes: astonishing numbers of people are ferociously determined to believe almost anything other than the truth.