The Political Asylum

crazy greek · Moderator Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 77

It's been snowing here all morning Very Happy

It's the first time ever, i have seen snow like this in April Shocked

Is it because of global warming?? Rolling Eyes

BlueEmperor · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

Where's Costal?

I'm sure this will all be linked to 'climate change' by the Scientific Taleban. Just about every change in the weather is now.

B.E.
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Jen · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 64

I've seen snow and hail in June...snow in April is not all that uncommon up here in the north.

SilverMiniCooperS · Inmate of the Asylum Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 195

On another board I belong to, a poster who lives in North Dakota had to cancel plans for today because of a snow storm.

kitchenwitch · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

Snow. Four letter word to me. We've had snow this late in the year before. My brother was in Canada at a remote cabin in the woods and they had 14 inches of snow plus another 3 of ice. It's not unusual, just more random.

Mpls Druid · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

I remember many years ago having snow on the 4th July when I was working in Yellowstone Park. And not one of those annoyance snows of 1 or 2 inches either. Enough snow to knock out electricity and close roads.

SilverMiniCooperS · Inmate of the Asylum Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 195

When we lived in Colorado in the late seventies my parents came to visit in July. We took them up to Mount Evans where it was snowing like crazy!!

adrien · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Vintage Girl · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

So what's the weather like in Italy, adrien?

Do you come from a mountainous region and do you have snow right now?

I have to say that I really don't believe this global warming nonsense. That is to say, I don't believe that mankinds contribution to it is as great as the scientists would have us believe.
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adrien · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

Actually, Ive been back in France for about ten days... I forgot to update my profile.

I've been in the North, in Turin and Milan. I don't think it's been snowing there recently - it's not cold enough in the plain, though the Alps may have had snow if the weather was rainy.

It's been snowing in France, in the North. Of course, not in Marseilles...

As for global warming, oponents to the theory claim that there has always been warmer and colder periods, and that solar variations account for the recent warming. But these natural sources of climate change are taken into account by scientists. They are mentionned in the IPCC reports. It doesn't seem to be sufficient to explain the current trends. In particular, computational models that take into account natural "forcing" can pretty well fit the temperature data till the mid-twentieth century, but need "anthropogenic" forcing to account for the recent evolution.

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