Here in Vancouver BC, Canada they have had to truck in snow from higher elevations for the winter Olympics. So while it is warm here, it is cold where you are. It proves nothing on a global scale.I don't know how they did it, but this has been one long, cold, winter here in Florida. Been here for about 30 years, and can't remember a time when we had more than two weeks straight of cold weather, but its going on three months, almost non-stop
Here in Vancouver BC, Canada they have had to truck in snow from higher elevations for the winter Olympics.
https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2010/02/julia-slingo.pdf
Q:
You mentioned models in your last answer, and people have asked whether we can really rely on models to tell us about the future of our climate?
A:
It’s a very good question, but of course we have to remember they are the only thing we have to tell us about the future. We are trying to look into the future to predict what’s going to happen based on the best science and our best understanding of how the climate system works. The only way to do that is through using these models.
I think what people find difficult to understand is what is this thing that we call a model? Well, it’s a huge computer code and it’s about solving the very fundamental equations of physics which describe the motion of the atmosphere, the motion of the oceans, how clouds form, how the land interacts with the sun’s rays, how it interacts with rainfall and so on and so on.
So what these models are is hundreds and thousands of lines of code which capture and represent our best understanding of how the climate system works. So they are not in a sense tuned to give the right answer, what they are representing is how weather, winds blow, rain forms and so forth, absolutely freely based on the fundamental laws of physics.
How do we know that they’re good? Well we continually test them against observations of the current climate in lots and lots of ways. At the Met Office we use the same model to make weather forecasts as we do to make our climate predictions, so every day we are testing the model and saying, ‘how well did we do with the weather forecast?’ We know that on many occasions our weather forecasts are incredibly skilful and that’s increasingly giving us confidence that the science in our models is fit to do this ‘crystal ball gazing’ into the future to say what will happen to our climate as we go really into uncharted territory. Because we are taking this planet to somewhere where it has never been before, or at least for millions of years.
I live around the Great Lakes and I've gotten about a foot of Snowfall this entire winter in 1 inch increments.
The taxpayers in BC are feeling ripped off alright.I feel I got ripped off, you know what I mean.
I don't think they payed the bill in full
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