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Originally posted by Seraph:
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anybody that looks around and says, "Mr. Gore, last Feb may have indeed been warm somewhere", a fact that has been attributed to El Nino, "but I had more snow in my home town this year than I've had in 30 years", is considered to be in league with anti-environmentalists, and in league with the oil companies.
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The "I've had lots of snow, so global warming isn't a problem" is a strawman argument. The relationship between temperature and snowfall is increadibly complex, and most of the time is isn't possible to come up with a simple relationship between the two. So, unless there is a lot of reasearch behind it, attempts to use snowfall as evidence that the climate is/isn't getting warmer should be treated as an attempt to deliberatly confuse the issue. [/QUOTE]I don't think so. Global Warming science will fall back to melting ice to say that it's a major problem, but, as has happened recently, little demonstrations about how warm it is get cancelled, because it's too cold. What makes snow fall may be a mystery, I'm no climatologist, or meteorologist, but I do know that if it's above freezing, existing snow will melt. There was more snow on the ground here in Wichita, for longer, than there has been since 1974. That's not based on calculated records, but by personal observation. I was here in 74, and I'm here now, and I was and am in a position to be able to see the snow on the ground, when it was. There is no strawman here. Snow on the ground will melt if it's above freezing, or even if it gets enough direct sunlight, at temps below freezing. Strawman indeed.