It's official - winter is here!

For Southern CA, it's Brrrrr too. it was 26 degrees f this morning at 7:30 am. Now, it's 44 degrees f. It's supposed to rain through Wednesday with the snow level down to 2,000 ft in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Here's some info on ice ages, and what's going on in the north and south poles....for us global warming buffs in the audiance.

Ice Age Now ( I'm not sure if this is an authorative site, so enjoy)

... Ice Age Theories (noaa website)

World Climate Report Antarctic Ice: A Global Warming Snow Job?

Enjoy! (teeth chattering)

Dorothy

Dot - The south cap does have some melting but it isn't global warming - it's sitting on a mantle plume (i.e. molten lava - as in volcanic). They think that the whole pole has an archipelago sitting under it - a conglomeration of islands, some of which are volcanic cones. The mantle plume might just activate these volcanoes so it will be interesting to watch. Also - there are some glaciers in Africa that were publicized melting due to global warming which are also sitting on top of a mantle plume. You bet they are warming - you'd be warming too if you were sitting on molten lava. Plumes are localized phenomena and not entire planet though so the hype is trash.

Thanks Sal, Dorothy: I needed those sources and that input. I have never understood how global warming got its start or rose to an ascendency in the face of so much solid evidence. It's like the sky is falling all over again. Everybody is saying it so the world must be warming and it must be man's fault.

OMG - that is cold - we have had -2 in little ol england and that was bad enough ! I think I would have to hibernate if it went that cold!

Brrrrrrrrrr....

Though, I do want it to show because we got our toddler some sweet snow gear

It's getting cold here as well it's down to 14C at night now. And it's down to 20C during the day, cold enough for a jumper :p

First Snowfall in Vancouver, BC as well! Winter is finally here.

We have had crazy weather here in Ohio so far this winter. We got snow in about mid October. This morning it was almost 60 F it has gotten a lot cooler as the day is progressing and tomorrow is supposed to be in the 30's again with freezing rain.

Here are a couple of charts. The Population one I did from information from statics from the US Census. the other is from the USGS:

http://www.acreativetouch.us/media/water_distribution.swf

http://www.acreativetouch.us/media/world_population_graph.swf


Dorothy

In Oklahoma we got the first snow this last Tuesday.

I would have sworn that Washington would have got the first snow before down here in Oklahoma.

Here in Crazy Northern California - it is cold at 50 degrees F with the sun shining and raining at the same time - just little spits, but none the less raining in the sunshine.

The wind is 15 mph making the 50 feel like 45 which is coooooolllldddd!

whine, sob, waaaahh.

Thank God summer finally ended a week or so ago.

yeah winter is definitely here! When I got in my car to goto work today at 1630 it was 20F and felt like 4F with the wind chill. Just a little cold still waiting for those days when it will be in the negatives for actual temps.

Terrific links Dot.

Did you guys catch that dudes book on magnetic reversals and evolution? The magnetic field has been linked with consciousness and evolution, so I'm tending to agree with him. Think I'll be ordering that book.

Here's a review of it, which I'll paste in full. (Ohhh I really hope it's fast as I really can't stand the friggin' cold!) <whimpers>


23 Nov 08 - Charles Darwin got it wrong. This is not to disparage the man. Science is an ever evolving process and scientific theories are subject to being replaced by newer knowledge. Most certainly, Darwin (1809-1882) got everyone thinking about evolution, but the problem is that evolution is not a slow process. It happens very fast.

Indeed, Darwin's friend, the famed biologist, Thomas Huxley, supported aspects of Darwin's theory, but didn't believe that evolution was gradual. Then, too, Darwin had to contend with those who believe that Noah built an ark and put two of all the creatures of the Earth on it. Religion is a great comfort, but it is no substitute for science.

I first became acquainted with Robert W. Felix through his book, Not by Fire, but by Ice, that pointed out that the Earth is on the cusp of a new ice age. Insofar as the Earth is now fully a decade into a new cycle of cooling, one that could last several decades or evolve into a new, full blown ice age, Felix not only got it right, but, in the course of writing his book, discovered an even more frightening scenario.

Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps: The True Origin of the Species is Felix's new book (available from www.iceagenow.com) and, were it not for fans like myself and others, it is not likely to make it to the cover of leading news magazines or become a segment on "Sixty Minutes." It will be largely ignored by the mainstream news media for the same reason they ignored his first book. Enthralled by the bogus "global warming" hoax, the mainstream media will find his new book equally appalling for its presentation of facts that run contrary to their ignorance.

Felix is far from alone in this view that new species are not the result of a long accretion of changes. The late paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) popularized that field of science with articles and books. Gould noted, "Gradualism is not a fact of nature. Most new species appear with a bang, not a protracted crescendo." Fossil records demonstrate that a species remains unchanged for millions of years before abruptly disappearing, "only to be replaced just as rapidly with a species that is, though clearly related, substantially different. Nature does take leaps."

Felix's great talent comes both in his ability to read and absorb the writings of scientists from different fields of study, and in his ability to explain complex issues to people like myself. I always remind readers that, while I am a science writer, I am not a scientist. Felix is a science writer and one who brings a great deal of passion to his quest to understand the history of the Earth and the life that appears to distinguish it from others in our galaxy.

While researching ice ages for his previous book, he became intrigued by a phenomenon that always coincides with them, magnetic reversals. In addition to mass extinctions of species that always accompanied magnetic reversals, Felix and others noticed that new species replaced them. For example, human beings are, in the long history of the Earth, 4.5 billion years, are "blindingly new", having existed a mere 200,000 years.

"Mass extinctions," writes Felix, "have been the rule, rather than the exception, for the 3.5 billion years that life has existed on this planet. Almost identical, each extinction was abrupt, each was extensive, and each was caused by some temporary, unexplainable event."

Permit me to pause at this point and note the vanity and idiocy of those who demand that humans must conserve every species on Earth, no matter the cost involved. This nation has spent billions via the Endangered Species Act. In a similar fashion, the notion that humans are responsible for a non-existent "global warming" is the justification for measures that will wreck the economies of nations and cause untold losses of human life thanks to famines that should be avoided.

The next time you hear or read the word "environmentalist", you should also hear and read "fascist" for the core of the environmental movement is the belief that human beings are "a cancer" on the Earth and should be reduced to a minimum.

The real threat to life on Earth are magnetic reversals, as revealed by magnetostratigraphy, the study of the magnetic properties of ancient layers of sediment (strata) now hardened into rock. Major reversals "appear to occur in sync with ice ages" and other measurements of time. "And it happens fast!" says Felix.

The Earth is at the end of a cyclical interglacial period. Such periods are about 11,500 years in length and it has been 11,500 years since the last ice age. That portends that another magnetic reversal is due as well.

Though decried as "deniers", those of us who have been skeptical of the claims of Al Gore and the legion of global warming charlatans, the real deniers are those refuse to acknowledge the facts put forth and explained in Felix's new book.

Those who would have you dramatically alter your lifestyle, by ending the use of oil, natural gas, and coal for energy, by installing thousands of wind turbines and miles of solar panels, are willfully ignoring the signs that the Earth is poised to enter a new age in which life as we know it--including our own--will be dramatically changed and to a large extent even exterminated.

There is nothing humans can do about this.

Darwin Got it Wrong and It's Not What You're Thinking

Yes - the magnetic pole is shifting at the moment - and rapidly. It is moving to Siberia. But, it shifts often. (about 3 times in the last 800 years). And it has reversed without event in the past as well - so a reversal of the magnetic pole is obviously not the only factor in the extinctions. I believe that only shifts which subsequently cause geographical pole shifts (true polar wander) are the ones that accompany the extinctions. If extreme cold is a symptom, that would make sense as extreme volcanic activity will block sunlight and also spew more material to align with the new pole (such is why the magnetic pole and the geographic one are usually in close proximity) and cause an imbalance large enough to make the geographical pole shift (which is a misnomer as it is the land and not the pole that is shifting).

Dot - it relates to your Darwin got it wrong post. Give me a link to find out what Nibru is about and I can tell you if and how it relates. LOL.

I used to live in Washington and I don't miss it...at all. The winters there were bruttal. I'm currently in Texas. It snowed here too. I couldn't believe it! I just can't seem to get away. Brrrrr is right.

Dot - LOL. I am one of the planet x non-believers. There isn't a website out there that can change my mind on that one.

Christie - yeah the winters are cold, but the summers don't fry you either. And I'm on the dry side of the Cascades. It's give a little take a little I guess. It's particularly cold this year - but that seems to be just on our side of the globe because sunconsultancy just said winter is missing where he is. I find it hard to feel sorry for him right now.

Dot - isn't sitting on a fence rather an uncomfortable position? I have images going through my mind of some of the fences I have seen -- OUCH! Please spare yourself and move to one side of the fence or the other. The worst that can do is prove you right or wrong eventually - while sitting there on the pickets and barbed wire might do actual damage. You can always climb over the fence at a later date if you so desire.

HeySal,
Its officially summer here in Australia, currently 31c at 7.30pm and looking to 37c on x-mas day.
Never had a cold x-mas before, must try it one day.
cheers,
the newnorcian