Alyeska Exceeds 700 Inches; Rare April Snow Hits Boise; Montreal’s Snowiest April Since 2010; Clearing Crews Reach Baralacha; Antarctica At -75.8C (-104.4F); + “There Is No Climate Emergency”
Alyeska Exceeds 700 Inches; Rare April Snow Hits Boise; Montreal’s Snowiest April Since 2010; Clearing Crews Reach Baralacha; Antarctica At -75.8C (-104.4F); + “There Is No Climate Emergency”
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23 Thoughts to “Alyeska Exceeds 700 Inches; Rare April Snow Hits Boise; Montreal’s Snowiest April Since 2010; Clearing Crews Reach Baralacha; Antarctica At -75.8C (-104.4F); + “There Is No Climate Emergency””
As someone in Montreal, I could attest two things:
1. The headline should be “Montreal’s snowiest April since 2010” – “April” instead of “winter” – because the actual winter (December to February) was among the least snowy that I remember in all my years of living in Montreal.
2. The snow that fell on April 4 is by now all but melted – some piles left at the sides of the streets but otherwise all melted.
They reformatted Windy.com controls overnight. Somebody spent months of hard work to make it so we have to click four time instead of one to get the same thing. Cute new little symbols in a different arrangement than original flavor. They fixed it so it works less better like everything else on the planet fricking kids nothing better to do than frack everything up rethinking everything.
I watch Youtube on TV, different format than on the pute. They are always adding new layers to access watching. It’s now seven clicks instead of one click. The format is run by AI which gets more unintelligent by the second. Inverse, it’s worse every time I turn it on. Garbage.
Like Bing Search, tell you everything except want you want to know. Garbage.
Another record cold day in EU. Record snow everywhere, Thee #1 problem there for sure. https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?temp,34.261,35.358,4,i:pressure,m:e7Gagyy
Once upon a time, before the PC and the Internet, people went to their books for the answers. My Dad had an impressive collection of reference books. He had dictionaries in English and other languages, a couple of sets of encyclopedias, Almanacs from every year, and loads of college textbooks on every imaginable subject. If you wanted to know the average rainfall in Timbuktu or anything else, you’d call Dad. He died about the time the Internet started picking up the slack.
The new Windy menu takes up a quarter of the screen with all this crap on it. On a global map how many thousand miles is that? Have to click off the menu. Then click to go back on the menu. They made the letters too small to read on the menu.
Remember that movie where the guy threw his TV out the window and yelled,”I’ve had all I can take, and I’m not going to take anymore!” Or words to that effect.
If everyone would toss their technology, we could still fix this thing. But it ain’t gonna happen.
One hour 46 minutes I’ll never get back, and well worth it. (The video on Missoula floods.)
Brings back earlier conflicts in my life, like the battle between academia and survivalism as lifelong paths to follow (in my life, survivalism won), the conflict between living in the place I most love (the Northwest) or the place where most of my family lives, Missouri.
I don’t care what they say, you can’t have it all. Everything is a tradeoff.
But of course nothing is ever completely off the table when you agree to let God direct your life. As the good Book says, Nothing is impossible with God.
Eg: if I added up all the minutes I spend picking things up that have slid to the floor… have you noticed how slippery everything has become? Books and phones are some of the worst. Doesn’t sound like much until you start adding it up. More clicks on the puter, not to mention trying to find things that get moved and unfamiliar new formats. It’s a nightmare for me every time I have to get a new phone.
Then add in all the lost time due to health issues that didn’t even exist 100 years ago. And practically everyone is suffering from lack of energy. No nutrition in the food. Pharmaceuticals that kill you slowly instead of quickly, ad nauseum.
Satan has some pretty clever brains in his paddock.
Cap, I was looking at the NASA chart of the energy balance.
It holds that 51% of insolation heats the ground and that only 6% rises into the atmosphere by convective heat transfer. This seems highly unlikely. If you calculate the heat loss from a flat plate, a round horizontal pipe or a vertical cylinder, radiative loss is much mess than 50% of the total. The three paths normally calculated are radiation, convection and conduction. Conduction through air is very little. Convention to the air dominates and radiation is also present. When I determine the quantities for each the radiation accounts for about 18% of the total. That is a far cry from the tiny value in the NASA graphic.
I have an underlying reason for bringing this up. NASA says that if there were no GHG’s in the air, the temperature would average -18 C just like the moon, which no one needs reminding has not atmosphere at all. That means the comparison is not valid. The influence on the atmosphere should be made with and without GHG’s not no atmosphere and an atmosphere with GHG’s.
If there were no GHG’s all of the insolation would strike the surface instead of 51%. There would be some reflection of course, based on the emissivity. However the greater part of that insolation would heat the atmosphere directly by contact. And, there is no way for the atmosphere to cool by radiation, because no GHG’s. So the temperature of the air would rise and rise with no way to cool except to heat the surface at night when it radiated without insolation. The equilibrium temperature when that effect balanced the in and out, would be well over 150 C with the temp in the mid altitudes very high.
It is simply not true that the air would be -18 C without GHG’s. There would be no radiative contribution to the temp, but there would be massive heating by convection. So the whole notion of “33 degrees of heating” is nonsense. The influence of the first 50 ppm of CO2 or water vapour is massive cooling as the atmosphere gains the ability to cool radiatively to space.
If you heat something that cannot cool, the temperature rises dramatically. The idea that adding GHG’s will “continue heating as it did from -18 C” is based on ignoring the convection from the ground. In short, the con is larger and more obvious that is generally thought.
Climate has also been redefined by the WMO as only 30 years of weather, not the thousands to millions of years people were taught in school, so it is always changing.
When the level of CO2 in the air drops below 150 ppm photosynthesis stops and the land plants die and go extinct and the land animals do the same.
In the last glacial period, the oceans cooled and could dissolve more CO2 and the level of CO2 in the air dropped to 180 ppm. That’s only 30 ppm above the extinction point and that level has been dropping in past glacial periods.
The Earth is still in a 2.56 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation which consists of very cold glacial periods that last around 90,000 years and alternate with cold glacial periods, like the present, which last around 10,000 years
The sun has entered a Grand Solar Minimum with less output and a weaker magnetic field which will block fewer cosmic rays allowing more clouds and cooling the Earth. That may be the trigger for the next glacial period.
It has been about 12,000 years since the last glacial period so another one could start at any time. We had better have enough CO2 in the air.
Aloha Cap:
We need darker fonts here to make easier to read.
And, you may have missed this: “Across the state, [2023-23] snowfall continues to impress–not least in Anchorage which is edging ever closer to a seasonal record.
This winter’s totals at the NWS offices on Sand Lake Road (near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport) were measuring 130.5 inches as of last Friday, which is a mere 4 inches off the all-time record of 134.5 held by 2011-12.
This season already stands as the third snowiest on record, just 1.9 inches behind 1954-55:
Ak snow from volcanos from solar flares since the cycle started. Storm after storm all from volcanos from solar flares for three years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMA1DkDHx8
I was looking at the solar polar field chart this morning, neg polarity turned up on the chart. I had to zoom in to see it wasn’t the black line which is the way it looks. Trajectory opposite of what I thought I saw last week on there.
It did that same thang eleven years ago on the chart and that’s when flares were going strong for another year. You can see the peak when neg turns back the other way. https://solen.info/solar/polarfields/polar.html
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Once again: Cap, thank you for your work!
As someone in Montreal, I could attest two things:
1. The headline should be “Montreal’s snowiest April since 2010” – “April” instead of “winter” – because the actual winter (December to February) was among the least snowy that I remember in all my years of living in Montreal.
2. The snow that fell on April 4 is by now all but melted – some piles left at the sides of the streets but otherwise all melted.
An error in the headline. Now corrected. Thank you.
Cap
They reformatted Windy.com controls overnight. Somebody spent months of hard work to make it so we have to click four time instead of one to get the same thing. Cute new little symbols in a different arrangement than original flavor. They fixed it so it works less better like everything else on the planet fricking kids nothing better to do than frack everything up rethinking everything.
I watch Youtube on TV, different format than on the pute. They are always adding new layers to access watching. It’s now seven clicks instead of one click. The format is run by AI which gets more unintelligent by the second. Inverse, it’s worse every time I turn it on. Garbage.
Like Bing Search, tell you everything except want you want to know. Garbage.
Another record cold day in EU. Record snow everywhere, Thee #1 problem there for sure.
https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?temp,34.261,35.358,4,i:pressure,m:e7Gagyy
All part of the plan to keep us so busy with BS that we don’t notice what they are up to or don’t take time to do anything about it.
The dumb know-nothing AI receptionists that all the companies are installing to save money are driving me bonkers.
That’s why I like paperback books.
Once upon a time, before the PC and the Internet, people went to their books for the answers. My Dad had an impressive collection of reference books. He had dictionaries in English and other languages, a couple of sets of encyclopedias, Almanacs from every year, and loads of college textbooks on every imaginable subject. If you wanted to know the average rainfall in Timbuktu or anything else, you’d call Dad. He died about the time the Internet started picking up the slack.
The new Windy menu takes up a quarter of the screen with all this crap on it. On a global map how many thousand miles is that? Have to click off the menu. Then click to go back on the menu. They made the letters too small to read on the menu.
Remember that movie where the guy threw his TV out the window and yelled,”I’ve had all I can take, and I’m not going to take anymore!” Or words to that effect.
If everyone would toss their technology, we could still fix this thing. But it ain’t gonna happen.
Geology of Yellowstone Hotspot and the Olympic Mountains. Siletzia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUkgCKkWpc&t=29s
Ice Age Floods series, Ice Age Geology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqBgiozZs4
One hour 46 minutes I’ll never get back, and well worth it. (The video on Missoula floods.)
Brings back earlier conflicts in my life, like the battle between academia and survivalism as lifelong paths to follow (in my life, survivalism won), the conflict between living in the place I most love (the Northwest) or the place where most of my family lives, Missouri.
I don’t care what they say, you can’t have it all. Everything is a tradeoff.
But of course nothing is ever completely off the table when you agree to let God direct your life. As the good Book says, Nothing is impossible with God.
Maybe I’ll see Mt. Hood again one day.
Eg: if I added up all the minutes I spend picking things up that have slid to the floor… have you noticed how slippery everything has become? Books and phones are some of the worst. Doesn’t sound like much until you start adding it up. More clicks on the puter, not to mention trying to find things that get moved and unfamiliar new formats. It’s a nightmare for me every time I have to get a new phone.
Then add in all the lost time due to health issues that didn’t even exist 100 years ago. And practically everyone is suffering from lack of energy. No nutrition in the food. Pharmaceuticals that kill you slowly instead of quickly, ad nauseum.
Satan has some pretty clever brains in his paddock.
Cap, I was looking at the NASA chart of the energy balance.
It holds that 51% of insolation heats the ground and that only 6% rises into the atmosphere by convective heat transfer. This seems highly unlikely. If you calculate the heat loss from a flat plate, a round horizontal pipe or a vertical cylinder, radiative loss is much mess than 50% of the total. The three paths normally calculated are radiation, convection and conduction. Conduction through air is very little. Convention to the air dominates and radiation is also present. When I determine the quantities for each the radiation accounts for about 18% of the total. That is a far cry from the tiny value in the NASA graphic.
I have an underlying reason for bringing this up. NASA says that if there were no GHG’s in the air, the temperature would average -18 C just like the moon, which no one needs reminding has not atmosphere at all. That means the comparison is not valid. The influence on the atmosphere should be made with and without GHG’s not no atmosphere and an atmosphere with GHG’s.
If there were no GHG’s all of the insolation would strike the surface instead of 51%. There would be some reflection of course, based on the emissivity. However the greater part of that insolation would heat the atmosphere directly by contact. And, there is no way for the atmosphere to cool by radiation, because no GHG’s. So the temperature of the air would rise and rise with no way to cool except to heat the surface at night when it radiated without insolation. The equilibrium temperature when that effect balanced the in and out, would be well over 150 C with the temp in the mid altitudes very high.
It is simply not true that the air would be -18 C without GHG’s. There would be no radiative contribution to the temp, but there would be massive heating by convection. So the whole notion of “33 degrees of heating” is nonsense. The influence of the first 50 ppm of CO2 or water vapour is massive cooling as the atmosphere gains the ability to cool radiatively to space.
If you heat something that cannot cool, the temperature rises dramatically. The idea that adding GHG’s will “continue heating as it did from -18 C” is based on ignoring the convection from the ground. In short, the con is larger and more obvious that is generally thought.
Climate has also been redefined by the WMO as only 30 years of weather, not the thousands to millions of years people were taught in school, so it is always changing.
When the level of CO2 in the air drops below 150 ppm photosynthesis stops and the land plants die and go extinct and the land animals do the same.
In the last glacial period, the oceans cooled and could dissolve more CO2 and the level of CO2 in the air dropped to 180 ppm. That’s only 30 ppm above the extinction point and that level has been dropping in past glacial periods.
The Earth is still in a 2.56 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation which consists of very cold glacial periods that last around 90,000 years and alternate with cold glacial periods, like the present, which last around 10,000 years
The sun has entered a Grand Solar Minimum with less output and a weaker magnetic field which will block fewer cosmic rays allowing more clouds and cooling the Earth. That may be the trigger for the next glacial period.
It has been about 12,000 years since the last glacial period so another one could start at any time. We had better have enough CO2 in the air.
The last full glaciation started to end 19 thousand years ago.
The end of the Younger Dryas very cold period only happened because of a comet strike.
Should read ,the Younger Dryas happened because of a comet strike.
Aloha Cap:
We need darker fonts here to make easier to read.
And, you may have missed this: “Across the state, [2023-23] snowfall continues to impress–not least in Anchorage which is edging ever closer to a seasonal record.
This winter’s totals at the NWS offices on Sand Lake Road (near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport) were measuring 130.5 inches as of last Friday, which is a mere 4 inches off the all-time record of 134.5 held by 2011-12.
This season already stands as the third snowiest on record, just 1.9 inches behind 1954-55:
Ak snow from volcanos from solar flares since the cycle started. Storm after storm all from volcanos from solar flares for three years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMA1DkDHx8
Thanks for William Happer’s talk.
It connected lots of evidence that has been mentioned in isolation.
I was looking at the solar polar field chart this morning, neg polarity turned up on the chart. I had to zoom in to see it wasn’t the black line which is the way it looks. Trajectory opposite of what I thought I saw last week on there.
It did that same thang eleven years ago on the chart and that’s when flares were going strong for another year. You can see the peak when neg turns back the other way.
https://solen.info/solar/polarfields/polar.html
Edit, Pos polarity, the blue line hooked up on the chart like last cycle. You see last cycle when it went back the other direction that was the peak. So, if that repeats there’s still a way to go.
Iceland erupted 12 hours ago, still putting out SO2 at 3AM’ere. Etna still erupting.
https://www.windy.com/-SO2-tcso2?tcso2,57.396,14.582,4,i:pressure,m:fxvafrZ
76F now in Russia just East of Estonia way up by the Baltic. Summer weather on the WW3 Map.
https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?temp,39.583,30.981,4,i:pressure,m:fgnagXL