Great Scott! Batman -- Global Warming Hits The Great Lakes -- February 6, 2018

Updates

February 12, 2018: this is pretty hilarious. Now, this headline from Climate Depot: record snowfall amounts pile up around the globe. Examples:

• Chicago ties record with nine (9) consecutive days of snowfall
• record snowfall in Windsor, Ontario; a record 18.4 cm fell on Windsor on Friday
• snow-covered beaches in Barcelona, Spain -- yes, that Barcelona
• Michigan city's snowfall totals climbing toward record highs
• new snowfall record for Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Arctic dips to 76F below zero; some of the coldest temperatures that people have ever experienced
• record snowfall in British Columbia
• record Montana snowfall for the season
• record snowfall in Japan kills seven
• first snowfall ever in parts of Morocco
• Chicago -- 20 inches of snow by Saturday night possible
• northern France hit by heavy snow
• nearly a thousand fishing boats trapped in ice in NE China

February 7, 2018: to all those snowfall records, we can now add Erie, Pennsylvania.
 

Original Post

 

To all those reports of cold weather overseas, we can now add the US. Over at IceAgeNow: Great Lakes ice reaches "average high" one month early. But you ask, is it really that much? Great question. Yes, the amount of lake ice is almost 4x the amount of ice as on this date last year, the warmest year in recorded history (except for all "those other" years). Percent coverage, on this date:

• 2016: 7%
• 2017: 11%
• 2018: 43%

A trend?

Posted yesterday:

The headlines keep coming: now, this -- snowfall around the world --

• Moscow: heaviest snowfall on record blankets Moscow
• Grand Prairie, Alberta: snowfall nearly doubles the previous record
• China: heavy snowfall snarls world's largest rail network  
• Moscow, again: once-in-a-century blizzard
• Spain: snow brings chaos to roads in Spain -- again

Posted yesterday but re-posting

• global warming crisis fails to appear; scientists bewildered; sea level rise grinds to a crawl; half that forecast: 3.0 mm/ year? nope, now down to 1.5 mm/year
• global temperatures drop back to pre-El Nino levels: "temps drop to levels not seen in six years"
• no link needed: Trump delivered first SOTU address in 8 years that did not mention "global warming"
• EU turns to razing forests; will produce lots of CO2 (FWIW): and in the 21st century the EU is burning wood chips from the US 
• China's CO2 emissions (FWIW) jumped 4% last year: and it' gonna be worse this year, see next story
• coal futures jump 10% in China as sever cold sweeps the country
• by the way, all that talk about "demand for oil" going to go away? LOL. Asian demand for 16,000 airplanes will drive requirement for more jet fuel (i.e., US crude oil) through 2100; all that talk about the end of the fossil fuel age is just that talk: talk fake news.