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An attentive reader from our country’s warmer parts pointed me to a piece that should send a chill up Al Gore’s hind quarters.  It seems that in recent winters the Baltic Sea has been getting extra icy.  The northern parts of that sea freeze regularly near land and the harbors.  But during these years of man-made global warming things have gotten so chilly around my native Estonia that the country is now having to add another icebreaker to its existing fleet of two. Estonia uses its icebreakers to help keep open the sea lanes of commerce in the Gulf of Finland and approaches to harbors like Tallinn.  (More here on EUreferendum.com from where I filched the photos below.)

EstonianIcebreaker 

Russ Steele (NCMW) has been keeping us abreast of climate change doings for years now, and he should be able to explain to all of us how big of a pile of weathers is required before we can call it climate change.  Of course, if we do conclude that all these weathers are really harbingers of climate change, then we bump into the inconvenient truth that it’s the politically incorrect kind of climate change.  You know, the kind that gets Big Al on the phone to his office to see what can be done to set matters straight again in people’s minds.

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3 responses to “Weather Again Upstages Global Warming”

  1. Russ Steele Avatar

    Well, according to conventional wisdom we have to stack up thirty years of weather before we can call it climate. It is interesting that the Pacific PDO cycles last on average about 30 years. A recent study found a 33 year cycle in warming and cooling weather patterns. In the Al Gore ira we were in a 33 year warming cycle, and now we have entered a 33 year cooling cycle. As the cooling continues, we will see more sea ice and the glaciers will start growing again. As the weather years continue to stack up we were going to see less and less of mentally challenged Al Gore.

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  2. Dixon Cruickshank Avatar
    Dixon Cruickshank

    Of course the MSM here and in Briton never mentioned the 30+ day rescue of 3 ships stuck in ice off russia about a month ago. With 2 of the worlds largest icebreakers having a brutal and life threating time getting them out. That area had been a pin up spot for ice loss, might have been why

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  3. Greg Goodknight Avatar
    Greg Goodknight

    Sorry Russ, but only cooling needs decades of consistency to move from ‘weather’ to ‘climate’. Remarkable hot weather can be declared climate in a day or two.
    Solar cycle 24 remains way behind even the revised Hathaway prediction. IIRC the original expectation, back when cycle 23 was still raging, was that the 24 peak would be in ’09; looks to me that ’14 is now likely.
    http://www.solarcycle24.com/sunspots.htm

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