and I think to myself thank heavens for all that warmist propaganda from the Nobel Peace Prize winning Al Gore and IPCC. I am so glad they nailed the cause of all of this planetary warming that's going on. I'm pleased as punch they discovered it was CO2 - the source of all food, and hence life, on the planet. A trace gas making up just 0.0387% of our dangerously polluted atmosphere and for them not to claim it's caused by something stupid....like changes in the Sun.

I woke up this morning to yet another day of inconvenient truth for Al Gore

another round of Man Made Global Warming lies are falling in huge white flakes from the sky, another consecutive day where we don't make it above freezing in Brussels

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EBBR.html

so I have a read on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009%E2%80%932010_in_Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_storms_of_2009%E2%80%932010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_American_blizzard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_snowstorms_of_2009-2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009-2010_in_the_United_Kingdom

NRDC Director of Government Affairs David Goldston told CNSNews.com Tuesday that the “cold winter” weather could teach people a lesson about global warming -- that “weather and climate aren’t the same thing.”

"And I think the same thing is true in weather. Month to month, you can have variations and, you know, place to place you can have variation, but the long-term trend is clear and what NOAA says, long-term, is that this is the warmest decade that we’ve ever had on record. The oceans this summer were warmer than they’ve ever been, and the ice in the Arctic cap -- ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. And there is just widespread evidence that it’s a real issue," he said.

Sek on the subject of snow...


Just thought I would plot out the NH weekly snow cover values as found here

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=2

From 1968 to the 1st Week of 2010

(there's some missing data from the early years which is why they are less than sinusoidal)

clearly an unmitigated disaster is being unleashed upon us all ;-)

Enjoy (it's in sq kms)



Sorry I should have said, so there isn't any confusion, clearly an unmitigated climate disaster is being unleashed upon us all.....not


Wrap up warm folks

Dave

We can remove the average annual pattern to compute snow cover anomaly:

I’ve added a smoothed curve, which indicates that snow cover has decreased over the decades it’s been tracked by satellites. We can confirm the decline by fitting a trend line to the data:

This indicates that on average, for the last four decades snow cover has declined by about 45,000 km^2 per year. In fact the average northern hemisphere snow cover has declined during this time interval by about 2 million km^2. And yes, that decline is statistically significant.
Springtime snow cover tells a different story:

This time there is a statistically significant trend, snow cover declining at about 68,000 km^2/yr. This is due to higher temperature causing earlier, and greater, springtime snowmelt.

The trend is even stronger in summer:
Average summer snow cover has declined at a whopping 99,000 km^2/yr. Again, higher temperature is the reason. The lowest average summer snow cover yet recorded was for 2008; the 2nd-lowest was 2007.

But the rapid decline of springtime snow cover over the last four decades, and the even more rapid decline of summer snow cover, show the mark of global warming unambiguously. And despite what some like to shout, the statistically strong trends are what’s important, not the statistically normal noise.

But I don’t expect any of this to reduce the noise we’ll hear from denialist blogs.