Study: Snow foolin’: Blizzards still likely despite ‘global warming’

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/08/27/snowstorms-blizzards-global-warming-climate-change/14685911/

Big snowstorms won’t be a distant memory, even with global warming, says a new study out Wednesday.

The study finds that extreme snow events will still occur, even in a future with significant man-made climate change.

“In some regions, it is possible for average snowfall to decrease, but the snowfall extremes actually intensify,” said study lead author Paul O’Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The study was done with computer model simulations, which found that while yearly average snowfall declines due to climate change in most regions, it actually increases in regions with very low surface temperatures.

For instance, even though places like Boston may see less snowy winters overall, some years will still see blizzards that drop a foot or more of snow.

The findings suggest that changes in extreme snowfall are not a good indicator of climate change.…

‘The Chinafication of America’: Reaction to Obama Bypassing the Senate with UN Climate Treaty: ‘Obama is taking a page from China’s government’

Marc Morano statement on Obama bypassing Senate ratification of UN climate ‘deal’. Morano is publisher of Climate Depot, former staff of U.S. Senate Environment  & Public Works Committee and producing and writing the new global warming documentary ‘Climate Hustle.’

Morano: “This is the Chinafication of America. Many global warming activists and the UN have previously praised China’s ability to impose climate and energy regulations without the messiness of democracy. See: NYT’s Friedman lauds China’s eco-policies: ‘One party can just impose politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward’

UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres laments U.S. democracy is ‘very detrimental’ in war on global warming — Lauds one-party ruled China for ‘doing it right’ on climate change

President Obama is taking a page from China’s government and is seeking to bypass democracy’s ‘very detrimental’ hurdles and just impose a new UN treaty on Americans. The Administration with both its EPA climate regulations (no climate impact) and the UN treaty has essentially declared ‘We don’t need no stinkin legislature.’

Sec. of State John Kerry is pushing the hardest for a UN agreement. See: Flashback NYT: John Kerry ‘hopes to use his position as secretary of state to achieve a legacy on global warming that has long eluded him’

We have known for years that the Obama administration was seeking no Senate ratification. See: Flashback 2009: Chris Horner: Kyoto II as Congressional-Executive Agreement: The Emerging Strategy?

Under EPA rules, the American people already face an increasingly centrally planned domestic energy economy and will now face one dictated from the United Nations without the Senate’s consent. The U.S. is currently heading to an energy deprived future. See: Winter blackouts could hit Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, regional grid operator warns

And we may end up like our European counterparts: See: Flashback 2011: We’re All North Koreans Now: ‘Era of Constant Electricity at Home is Ending, says UK power chief’ — ‘Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available’

Of course, eliminating plentiful energy is what the Obama administration officials have stated is their goal. See: Flashback 1975: John Holdren Says Real Threat to USA Is Cheap Energy: ‘The U.S.is threatened far more by the hazards of too much energy, too soon, than by the hazards of too little energy, too late.’

All of this comes at a time when the evidence continues to show that …

Geologist Rebuts Media-Hyped Draft Of New UN IPCC Report As ‘Nonsense Totally Contrary To Real Evidence’

NYT: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Growing, and Growing More Dangerous, Draft of U.N. Report Says
AP’s Seth Borenstein: UN panel: Global warming human-caused, dangerous – ‘The report used the word risk 351 times in just 127 pages’ – Global warming is here, human-caused and probably already dangerous — and it’s increasingly likely that the heating trend could be irreversible, a draft of a new international science report says. – Borenstein excited: ‘UN report uses word irreversible 36 times: ‘the risk of abrupt & irreversible change increases as the magnitude of the warming increases’
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Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook takes apart point-by-point the new draft of UN climate report: “What is really astonishing, is how the discredited IPCC can continue to put out such nonsense totally contrary to real evidence and still pretend to be scientists.” 
Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, a UN IPCC expert reviewer, has authored ten books and 150 journal publications. Presented 31 research papers at international meetings in 13 countries outside the US
UN IPCC draft report claim: “Global warming is already cutting grain production by several percentage points, the report found”
Dr. Easterbrook: “With no global warming in 15-18 years, how can ‘global warming’ cut grain production? Canada’s wheat production is down ~25%, not because of global warming but because of global cooling that has affected the growing season.”
IPCC claim:  “and that could grow much worse if emissions continue unchecked.”
Dr. Easterbrook: “The total increase in atmospheric CO2 during the only period when both CO2 and temp increased (1978-1998) was a whopping 0.004%.  That’s going to cause a lot of warming?”
IPCC claim: ‘Higher seas’
Dr. Easterbrook: “In areas cited as ‘drowning (Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh), the sea level in the Maldives has dropped a full meter since 1979; sea level in Kiribati is not rising faster than coral is growing upward; sea level change in Bangladesh is due largely to compaction of delta sediments, and on and on.  In the next 50 years (2064) global sea level rise will be only about 3 inches!” [Climate Depot note: Also see: Latest Peer-Reviewed Studies Demolish Warmists’ Sea Level Rise Scares: ‘Decelerated 44% since 2004′ – ‘Global sea levels have been naturally rising for ~20,000 years and have decelerated over the past 8,000 years, decelerated over the 20th centurydecelerated 31% since