The data just keeps coming in.
China is experiencing unusual chills this winter with its national average temperature hitting the lowest in 28 years, and snow and ice have closed highways, canceled flights, stranded tourists and knocked out power in several provinces.
Russia, too, is experiencing its coldest winter in seventy years.China Meteorological Administration on Friday said the national average was -3.8 degrees Celsius (25 degrees Fahrenheit) since late November, the coldest in nearly three decades.
Alaska is going rogue, also, with coldest winter in two decades.
The forecast for a one degree rise in global temperatures over the next century looks a bit shaky right now.
How many ships went thru the northeast passage this last summer? I seem to remember 53 from 2011 but have not seen a figure for 2012.
ReplyDeleteIIRC it was 3 in 2010.
NB: They can use it to ship oil to Europe from the North slope , if they can get the Kullak back afloat.
Thank you for taking time to write. You know that I am serious about the Bakken but most other subjects that appear on the blog (including articles about the Honda Civic, Apple, global warming, etc.) need to be taken in context or with a grain of salt, as they say.
DeleteBut I do have to admit that the mainstream media stories on climate change seem to be changing. Few were aware that the Kyoto Protocol expired (I was unaware of that until today and I read a fair bit of news from multiple sources); the mainstream media certainly did not make a big deal out of it. Apparently life will go on even if the Kyoto Protocol doesn't.
But, on another note, the climate change data is, at best, mixed, and there certainly are indications that we are entering a period of colder weather again.
I really don't believe weather patterns are getting worse (e.g., Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, etc), but if one wants to push that argument, perhaps the severe storms were not due to warming weather but rather the turbulence one encounters going through change. In this case, going through a transition from global warming to global cooling.