We're all doomed.

Not that I lack sympathy, but pretty much isn't living in Alaska year round a life threatening experience in the first place? I've been there. You don't want to be there in the winter.

or" what Storm is not life threatening"??

Bring it on! Ain't no "fraidy cats" here!

11/1/2011 Associated Press
Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press.
The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars. The report says costs will rise and perhaps some locations will become "increasingly marginal as places to live."
Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says.
The report from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be issued in a few weeks, after a meeting in Uganda. It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases.
his marks a change in climate science from focusing on subtle changes in daily average temperatures to concentrating on the harder-to-analyze freak events that grab headlines, cause economic damage and kill people. The most recent bizarre weather extreme, the pre-Halloween snowstorm, is typical of the damage climate scientists warn will occur — but it's not typical of the events they tie to global warming.
"The extremes are a really noticeable aspect of climate change," said Jerry Meehl, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "I think people realize that the extremes are where we are going to see a lot of the impacts of climate change."

Not that I lack sympathy, but pretty much isn't living in Alaska year round a life threatening experience in the first place?

Nope. Lived here all my life and I don't consider it life threatening at all. Maybe if you come from a state that completely shuts down after an inch of snowfall, you might think so. Here in south-central Alaska, we have milder winters than many places in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

This is a freak storm and nowhere near the norm up here.

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The Study of Global Warming is a well established Science that has been a part of college curriculum's for over a quarter of a century. Adding energy to normal temperature osculations will change the amplitude, and also appears to change the period of the resulting oscillation. What can be stated from an Engineering Thermodynamic Analysis it that Global Warming Climate Change will increase the severity of storms because more energy into the Worlds dynamic weather system increases temperature oscillations. The earths nominal temperature is 273 degrees Kelvin above Absolute-Zero. (Absolute-Zero is the state where all kinetic energy motion of molecules stops. The Kelvin scale has a different starting point, but the same measurement delta as the Centigrade temperature scale.) Even a temperature fluctuation of 5% beyond normal variances will create extreme weather conditions, capable of changing the face of civilizations beyond what we are presently capable of imagining or understanding. How foolish do we want to be regarding altering our presently benign planet climate?

"Climate change"...sort of a misleading and not very clear terminology. When someone tells me, "climate change is causing all the floods, storms tornadoes, etc. that we are seeing", I say "No sh!+ Sherlock!" I mean, every day is different even if that difference is slight. Climate change is a given.

Maybe better terminology should be used to clarify what point people are actually trying to make. "Human induced climate manipulation" would be more accurate if that is what one is, in fact, implying. "Climate change"..."No sh!+ Sherlock!"

The storm heading for Alaska is bad, but it happens. Bad droughts happen. Bad hurricanes happen. Flooding happens. Earthquakes happen. Ice ages happen. Ages of warming happen.

No doubt, we humans need to be conscious of what we do and how we do it and no doubt we are contributing to creating an environment that is not as friendly to us. But the two biggest climate influences are the sun and the Earth. One major volcanic eruption could send us into an ice age. The sun, which is growing ever so slowly will continue to heat up the Earth until eventually it will look something like Venus.

In any case, humans should, as a rule, be aware and practice good ecology as best we can to limit our impact on our environment. But one day, we will get hit by a meteor or a comet or a major volcanic eruption or a tsunami and it won't matter. With major damage to nuclear power plants and oil rigs and not enough trained humans to fix them, they will leak and poison the environment and leave very few places on the planet where any living thing could survive. there are at least a dozen nuke plants on the East coast of the US that could be hit by a major tsunami. A tsunami can be caused by an earthquake, volcanic eruption, meteor or comet strike or a major landslide. All have happened in Earth's history and all are still possible.

As far as our people up in Alaska, get prepared and don't underestimate the power of a strong storm. I live in South Florida and have significant experience with hurricanes. If you prepare your homes and businesses and store a week worth of food and water and do what authorities recommend, your chances of coming out with your lives are very good. Be safe and stay out of the water...NO FISHING!

By the way, I don't have a job. So if you need help with the clean-up after, respond to my post here and provide some info on who to contact. I'll come up and help.

Good luck!

Prospect Survival: You do realize that the cost of flight out to that part of the world is around $2k and then you'd have to rent bush planes to reach the communities (averaging about 400 per town).

Not a gold mine for rebuilding.

Jay-538516: Awesome review of the science. My hats off.

Curious what you think about how we fair now to other extinction periods, in terms of how CO2 concentrations. I heard that a possible trip wire for heavy methane release is around 500ppm, as scene in the distant past, and that could cause dangerous spikes in greenhouse gases. Curious what you think.

It's a blizzicane !

Okay Obama Whiners and complainers.... can't wait to see you blahime him for this one.

As for the people of Alaska, Hope everyone stays safe up there.

Monkey...

You do realize I need work and will be flown there, if needed, by the US government?

My late uncle was sent out west from NYC to work in logging during the Great Depression. Paid for by the US Government.

Many people get "shipped" to locations where help is needed...Katrina, Andrew, Haiti, etc...paid for by the government.

Maybe I wasn't clear. Additionally, I have experience in Arctic survival. I've lived in tents for weeks at a time. I've experienced -30 degrees Fahrenheit in the mountains of Germany. If they need me, I will go.

Bring it on! Ain't no "fraidy cats" here!

Gortex has made you people crazy. ;)

Dear Anchorage Smirks. Hang tight! Can alot of you catch crabs during a storm like this?

Derek- that's right, you don't want to live here year round. So stay down in the lower 48. We like it just fine the way it is. Leave it to MSNBC to attach their Global Warming expos'e to this article.

Climate change might be a misleading expression. It would be more accurate to call it accelerated climate change.

I'm really tired of all the gloom and doom about Global Warming. The republicans have a good program to deal with Global Warming. They go out from their office buildings, stand in the street, and shout in unison, "What! me worry?" This strategy works, I am told, as long as you don't corrupt it with facts.

So if Shell is drilling out in the ocean off Alaska and they get a storm like this, what happens? If oil is spilled in the oceans off Alaska and they get a storm like this, where does the oil end up? How do they clean up oil that is spilling into a storm like this? Those who are advocating more and more drilling in our oceans, are they considering that this type of storm is happening more and more often and becoming more and more likely? I have a bad feeling about this.

Exactly what I was thinking.... I hope everyone is safe!

Right on....

Their show is pretty much based on these types of conditions, I say weather out the storm and good crabbing. I'm pretty sure this storm is only slightly more powerful than others they've encountered.

Hey, John, tell that to the widows of the 'Perfect Storm' crew.

It was the Andrea Gail, shows how little you actually know. "The perfect storm crew" I saw the movie too, if that crew wasn't so hungry for money they could have easily avoided the storm, but with a full load swordfish they decided to challenge the storm, that was their deadly mistake.

I don't think their crab seasons starts until Dec. 1

and it is usually over in about 24-36 hours......

Yup.

But there are still flatlanders saying this like: "I saw a storm like this when I was 15." and they know they are lying. Mile-wide tornadoes have never been normal, but they are becoming so now. Rains that are like gulley-washers rather than garden rains happen more than often. The irresponsibility toward future generations is obscene.

I think the proper terminology is Climate change.

An..."Mile-wide tornadoes have never been normal,.."

LOL! Never? How would you know if you haven't been alive for tens of millions of years?

There is no global warning Just ask any Tea Partier.

only a dumass leftard could make this political.

hs321: The human species has only been around for (max) 3 million years and in that time, we've had relative stability in CO2 levels (until now), so it seems safe for AnIndividual to assume that mile-wide storms are rare.

And you don't need to be alive 1 million years ago to know about life 1 million years ago. That's what makes science so powerful.

Many points for the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald reference!

You guys are smarter than me. I had a blank look when I read that. :)

Yeah.. but that was on the lake they called the big Gitchee-Goomee

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind.

3rd verse of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

I think it's a good song, even if it's a sad song.

There is a great video version on YouTube.

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.

I was about 7 years old here in Michigan when she went down.

I was 12, living in Detroit and my father died the same week the ship went down. I've always thought of him and that sad time in my life when I hear that song.

Interesting to note that the seas of Superior are worse than any ocean when each does its worst.

My Uncle was a tug boat capt on the St. Mary's River and knew the Captain of the Fitz very well. I remember when we'd visit his "camp" in the summer it was a big deal to run out on the dock to watch the Fitz go by. So sad. It must have been terrifying for those men. I hope any fishermen/women out there on the Alaskan coast get the heck out of the way of this one!

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Glad to live through it.

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Interesting, yet I can't seem to find a connection between it and an Alaskan storm. :)

There is a great deal of theory about celestial abnormalities affecting weather.

But this one probably aint it.

So, "man induced climate change" is affecting astroids now!!!!

Attention: "The entire western seaboard of Alaska is apparently about to be covered with asteroid spooage. Now back to Yu 55."

I survived the Great Yu 55 impact of 2011

http://youtu.be/psuyEAodSQA

The video posted above is VERY interesting!! Regarding Elenin

Yeah they are watching Elenin very closely

I suspect most of them are at home or in a bar......Not much going on there at this time. Crabbers arn't out....

I fully agree economy.........looking back as far as the Cambrian Period, the earth is now in a cold period although the trend seems to be warming up. Good old mother earth doing her thing regardless what the "experts" say is happening.

Global warming will cause dramatic swings. This is an example.

Take your global warming doubt and pack it up with the flat earth and creationism.

Stop doubting science. Or would that make you NOT a member of the GOP?

SRS

You may want to take a look at the history of the earth and the periods of warming and cooling that it has gone throught. The last 50 or so years are a drop in the bucket and have very little to do with earth's temperature cycles.

If the surprising acceleration of the Artic melt is not enough proof that man is speeding up climate change for you, then you must live in a cave and have no education at all. Proud of it? A fool's folly.

GC; agreed. I do think that some extremes with solar flares and storms, expected to dwindle down by 2013 have something to do with weather patterns/ winds aloft as well. A few good hurricanes, violent enough and properly placed earthqueakes and weather patterns shift, both in the atmosphere and at the origin, the prevailing ocean currents.

Just say no when it comes to responding warming and climate change deniers - to comment is to give them audience. When one can not see the incredibly obvious (and is backed by virtually all of the worlds credible scientists) then they are either on the payroll of the API and Exxon, (even if indirectly) or they are religious fanatics. Ergo, there is no use responding to them.

The changes you talk about happened over a long period of time, the changes that have happened over the past 100 years are NOT normal.

Climate change is real, and it is man made.

Anindividual

It is difficult to argue with a fool because you will beat me everytime with your vast experience.

John....proof please that they are not normal.

John,

And your vast knowlege of the climate comes from where. Mann's falsified data or the UNs report written by the expert college students in the field?

Obviously, Economykiller doesn't know much about our global warming, or the relationship between climate change and weather. With a nick like Economykiller, and his absurd assumption, one can surmise that his scientific information comes from Fox News, thus the ignorance on matters of science. After all, Fox News is all about climate change denial, not to mention evolution.

Climate change is very real and has been since Earth's formation. We've a fairly violent history early on, but most has leveled since and drastic changes wane more and more. This doesn't mean there's no change, and what's become quite subtle in terms of Earth's history do not seem so subtle to man at times. In fact, we've been spared the worst.

Fact is, tropical fauna has been found fossilized within glaciers. The Earth was very, very different at different times in Her history. Many earthquakes have been shallow relatively speaking, and this makes it hard on mankind; they tend to do more damage. But, there have also been some deeper, some shallower quakes on the floors of the oceans and this has more impact on prevailing currents.

What we're seeing is mild; Earth is stretching some, a bit of getting out some stiffness. No one knows where it'll land, we may be here to see substantial change, we may see only some degree as human animals. We're barely a blip on Earth's timeline. However, I believe and the dinosaurs would agree; one or two massive asteroids changes the game altogether.....

A hurricane is a low pressure system. Its fuel is warm water. Logically, the warmer the sea the bigger and more intense the storm. So there it is, warm Arctic equals bigger and stronger storms. Contrasts of cold and dry and warm and moist. And now, here is Bianca with Sports.

Warming puts extra energy in the system, energy that can manifest itself as stronger winds. Warmer water also means that there is more moisture in the air. Moisture that will precipitate out as either snow or rain. Basic science would have told you that much.

Like many on the right, they don't know what's taught in 3rd grade; there is a difference between weather and climate.

Economykiller - you're right about Brian Williams not knowing about snow in October - I remember trick-or-treating in the snow on more than one Halloween!

As for this storm, I spent 8 months in Alaska and these people are a strong, caring community - I pray they'll be OK and have confidence they will be since you have to be tough to live (and survive) in this beautiful, rugged country.

I've lived in New England my entire life and I don't recall ever seeing snow on Halloween.

I think you're all ignorant. To outright accept man-caused climate change as fact is just as stupid as to completely deny it. We have regular records for barely 100 years of a 4 billion year old Earth. The farther you go back in time, the fuzzier the climate data gets. Yes, we can have good evidence that climate was "x" from 10 million to 15 million years ago. But it's just a generalization of a multi-million year period! We have NO ability to pick up single year or even 50-yr changes past a couple thousand years.

Yes, the climate is changing (those who deny that are just being obstinate). But, again, to just blindly accept that it is man-caused because your politicians want a reason to increase gov't bureaucracy is just as STUPID as to outright deny it because your politicians think that man can't adversely affect God's planet.

Matt, I thinkl the more important issue is, given we don't know what if any affect humans have, do we do nothing or do we begin to reduce those actions which we know are the cuplprits if indeed we are causing global warming.

In other words, do we do nothing or do something (knowing the "something" will invariably cost money).

I read a report that said addressing global warming to the extent we can would cost about 2-3% of GDP, worldwide. That's like saying do we risk the possibly cataclysmic effects of global warming to gain another 2-3% in our standard of living? I'd say no.

John,

And your vast knowlege of the climate comes from where. Mann's falsified data or the UNs report written by the expert college students in the field?

Most recently it was climate study funded by the Koch brothers. Also I am pretty sure I know more than most of you on this subject.

Denial for some of you, is a terrible thing to waste.

That's it! I'm updating my disaster plan tonight!

Mark, I agree. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. The problem with climate change legislation is that it is tied to unpalatable politics for well over half the country. The folks who fight hardest for cap-and-trade laws are the exact same people who want a complete destruction of anything resembling capitalism. Many folks, including Obama, have been clear that they want to send energy prices sky-rocketing causing an implosion of the system.

Until a supporter on the Right can gain traction in other issues (thereby, bringing a responsible environmental policy along) or a supporter on the Left separates themselves from nefarious plans to remake the system, this will be an unsolvable problem.

Warming often leads to more snow in cold areas. Like Alaska, or the arctic. Do some reading before you post nonsense.

So obviously you need more than just cold weather to make snow. The other thing you need is water vapor. Nashville has plenty of that, thanks to its relative proximity to the warm Gulf of Mexico (500 miles to the south) and the prevailing westerly winds that bring moist air all the way from the warm Pacific. The South Pole has none of these factors. It is farther from open water, the water around Antarctica doesn't evaporate as readily because it's so cold, and the prevailing winds tend to carry what moisture there is parallel to the coast, and not toward the interior. Barrow is in pretty much the same boat as the South Pole, but to a lesser degree. It gets several times more snow, and summers there are warm enough that the snow melts every year.

Another thing to consider is that frigid air can "hold" less water vapor than merely chilly air. I put "hold" in quotation marks because the air doesn't really hold or support the water vapor in any real sense. The nitrogen and oxygen coexist with the water vapor in the same volume without interacting with each other very much. It is the temperature of the volume, not the presence of other gases, that determines the saturation vapor pressure of water. Saying the air is "saturated" is another way of saying the dew point has been reached, or that the relative humidity is 100%. "Saturation vapor pressure" is also a rather misleading term, but it hasn't yet been overtaken by the arguably more appropriate "equilibrium vapor pressure." For most practical purposes, saturation can be thought of as the greatest amount of water vapor that can exist in a volume at a given temperature without some of it becoming liquid or solid, but see below for important exceptions. The higher the temperature, the higher the saturation vapor pressure. If you could turn all the water vapor in a volume of saturated frigid air into snow, you would get less snow than if you did the same thing to a volume of saturated chilly air. How much less? A lot less. At 32°F (0°C), a cubic meter of saturated air (strictly speaking, saturated with respect to ice) contains about 2.7 grams of water vapor. At 0°F (-18°C), it contains six-tenths of a gram (only about a fifth as much as at freezing), and at -40° (on either scale), it contains only 0.07 grams (only a fortieth as much as at freezing). This helps explain why the heaviest snowfalls almost always occur when the temperature is not far from freezing, about 24° to 32°F (-4° to 0°C).

CGCal, apparently you have much older National Geographics than I.

economykiller....with a comment like that, it proves either you are an absolute moron OR you are just a political hack.

take your pick

To refute that climate change is occurring is as ignorant as believing in trickle-down economics. It's no small wonder that the tea party worships both of these sacred cows.

Well I think there is a volcano in Oklahoma based on latitudes of other Calderas.

You really are an imbecile.

Meanwhile the nations of the earth are racing to stake out mineral and petroleum rights in the newly ice-free arctic ocean. The oil companies, who employ thousands of scientist and who known perfectly well that climate change is happening. are laughing at pathetic dupes like you. Get a clue.

Matt-1145746: Prove to me with ONE link (not Fox) that Obama is trying to "send energy prices sky-rocketing causing an implosion of the system".

You can't, because he is not.

For all of the global warming friends or is it fiends there is just as much research that shows that the weather has happened before and before humans caused anything. So it will happen again and again, and the earth is just getting to the mid point in the long period between ice ages.

That said I hope everyone is going to be OK.

Monkey@Keyboard: First, I should have been more clear. Obama words are "send energy prices sky-rocketing". My words are "causing an implosion to the system".

wtf. My link disappeared. I'll try again.

GAH. Just google "under my cap and trade plan" and click on the first youtube video.

Everyone knew there'd be one, and voila.... like a moth to flame. Same kind you don't want to let in on secrets or surprises.

Please consider the added dangers of the floating icebergs, some huge, from the accelerated melt of glaciers in the past 5 years.

That is where my ignorance comes in; granted, it's not a pansy of a storm, but doesn't sound to be as much as most hurricanes are. Perhaps the ice/sea surge changes things up, but this is why I was thinking that for limited sea area and it's colder location storms such as this are not very common at all. Could be several earthquakes recorded out in the seas earlier this year have disrupted ocean currents, thus warm/cool air currents as well....

Not to worry! Cantor will gut the life out of any relief effort...

These aren't areas where the Red Cross or FEMA can hop in their trucks and help out. There is no road system to these areas and with nasty weather, there will be not air traffic for a while either.

Most Alaskans except the transients who live in Los Anchorage are pretty adept in weird weather...including very cold weather....After all, many of us play in -40 and have worked outside in -60......You learn early that there is not a lot of room for error and we have great clothes for that kind of weather. Our dogs are bred to be outside...our people are bred to be strong and resilient....FEMA rarely helps those in need....ask any hurricane victim....I moved to Alaska after loosing a couple of houses in Florida....Much better up here....

That's why I was wondering why such a severe warning? It didn't sound to be a common occurrence for AK, so I assumed that was part of it. So storms like this aren't uncommon in your neck?

Is a storm in your neck sort of like a pain in the neck?

That might be Cheechako.....:) Right now it is about -5 and I have been out all day....That storm is 1000 miles away from 90% of Alaska.....We have 40 dogs and we want some cold.....and you have to remember....There is no place like Nome.....:)

Sounds like getting ready for a hurricane. Strap down what you can, board up and get ready for the ride.

This should have been a separate comment - sorry.

your son at elmendorf AFB? if so he'll be fine. im no climate expert but I stayed at a holiday inn once and watched the history channell. I have been telling people for ten years its not getting warmer you have to worry about, 5 degrees warmer change in sea temps can bring on an ice age, so dont buy sunscreen, buy a bearskin coat and cook yourself 100000 years worth of jerky.

We get very serious storms in Alaska. We also get a lot of pleasant weather and some increidble weather in the summer. I live in the Anchorage area (about 40 miles from downtown Anchorage) and, at the moment it is calm and cold as we expect November 8 to be. I live directly on Turnagain Arm and it is a weather created wind tunnel from Portage to Cook Inlet. So far I have never been unable to drive between Girdwood and Anchorage.

Our weather is much different from the contiguous states, of course. This is not one of the best times to visit Alaska, but neither is it one of the worst. We trade away the pollution, traffic, etc. of other American cities to live in a climate that is just as it has been for a very long time.

Our air is clean and our water is very pure and great to drink or make coffee with. I have animals coming to my house each summer. We have almost no insects and most of us never get colds, etc.

I have lived here for 50 years on February 10. I am 82 and will live out my life in this amazingly beautiful place. Our state is more than twice as large as Texas and has the smallest population except for Wyoming.

Hi Don, Believe it or not, I know just about where you are. I was there this past July (Turnagain Arm). I was headed down toward Seward. I was fascinated with the avalanche crossing signs, though. Fortunately, we didn't experience anything like them while visiting.

Thanks to everyone for the updates. He'll be fine, but he does have several people who work under him. He tries to keep some of these "wet-behind-the-ears" kids updated on the weather, especially the newbies to the state. He doesn't always get all the weather reports, so I try to keep him informed when I hear something. Sometimes I know his weather comings and goings before he does! And I'm in Ohio.

Alaska is incredibly beautiful, but truly, I don't know if I could "do" the winters there. They are bad enough here in Ohio. However, late spring, summer and early fall are fantastic seasons in Alaska. (I suppose if you like cold and snow, winter would be fun, too, but it's not for me.) Best Wishes to all.

Zapper, I live in Anchorage. Staring out my office window at clear blue skies and sunshine. It's chilly but not windy at all. Winters are beautiful here! Just a little darker than most places :)

We have almost no insects

Oh come on, I've seen the mosquitoes there. They can carry off livestock and if one bites you it's like getting shot by a .45.... ;)

it is about 10 degrees in ANC right now.....we are expecting snow flurries tomorrow....That storm is 1000 miles away from us....Sorta like if a hurricane scroes a direct hit to Washington DC, you probably won't get much in Maine....

No mosquitoes in the Winter....No ticks, fleas, or snakes either....summer or winter....

PS... I went to graduate school in Cleveland....I was never so darned cold in my life.....Could not wait till I got back home to Alaska. Winters much worse there....and they don;t clear the roads as well.....

Thanks to all of you. I appreciate your updates.

As far as (summer) insects--my only complaints were the mosquitoes. They were dive bombers! Fortunately, we had a good supply of repellent.

I saw that the storm was far to the west of Anchorage, but those things have a way of working their way to the east. 100 MPH winds can close that gap in a very short amount of time.

George--sorry about Cleveland and all the lake-effect snow. I don't like Cleveland--winter or summer!

tuned, calm down. "Biggest amount on record..." doesn't mean forever. We have only been collecting weather and "detailed" climate stats for approx. 40 yrs, or, since the implementation of weather satellites. Prior to that weather and climate accounting was done at a highly unorganized level. Ice core sample have shown periods in Earth's history with CO2 levels 100 times greater than today's. The ice sheets have been retreating since about 10K yrs ago. 7 billion people can't help But, put an ice cube on your table and watch it melt; notice that it melts slow to start but faster the longer it sits out, until the final 1/10th melts away quickly (all while the temp in your room remained relatively steady); same applies with our ice sheets. "Global Warming" was initiated millennia in the past. if this melt had not corresponded with the advancement of our culture we certainly would not have prospered as we have.

With the "internet" age comes information from around the world, on land, sea, and space, faster than we have ever known. Soooo; Has all this weather commotion been going on and we just weren't aware of it? or, Does the fact that more people know about something make it more dire than it actually is?

Tom

How would you qualify Batty Bachmann;s comment on the east coast earthquake as a message to the leaders in Washington by God that they are being punished for bad governing? Republicans make stupid comments too.

For a deep low to be that strong that far up north is amazing. 85mph winds, it's a snow hurricane. We have been seeing alot of strange weather, I think that we are starting to see the first hints of the new iceage.

Ed

The Study of Global Warming is a well established Science that has been a part of college curriculum's for over a quarter of a century. It is just the flat earth crowd that wants to argue otherwise. Adding energy to normal temperature osculations will change the amplitude, and also appears to change the period of the resulting oscillation.

What can be stated from an Engineering Thermodynamic Analysis it that Global Warming Climate Change will increase the severity of storms because more energy into the Worlds dynamic weather system increases temperature oscillations. The earths nominal temperature is 273 degrees Kelvin above Absolute-Zero. (Absolute-Zero is the state where all kinetic energy motion of molecules stops. The Kelvin scale has a different starting point, but the same measurement delta as the Centigrade temperature scale.) Even a temperature fluctuation of 5% beyond normal variances will create extreme weather conditions, capable of changing the face of civilizations beyond what we are presently capable of imagining or understanding. How foolish do we want to be regarding altering our presently benign planet climate?