It's not dead yet...

How novel this soothing observation, for you, but oddly, that % is continuing to decrease, year after year... needless to observe once more that you continue to miss that bit about extent versus area and surface versus thickness... thickness thickness thick ness... think we've seen that for the month of February... right on the button, continuing on that downward trend.



Betting 10 quatloos that March will be on the downward trend too.

Whatever, if the coldest winter in many years for UK CET is 0.3C colder than mean [DA's gob smack], than I must say to feel for the English high sensitivity to climate change... which proofs the point that just a little change is enough to get the 2 legged local British organisms to go bonkers over "it's so cold". In Northern Italy, Lombardia and Veneto it was probably colder this winter, with the Alps and Dolomites on their doorstep.

Ocean current change... hmm wonder why the North Sea was at the new years dive, 3C warmer than last year... more vapor to make snow when it goes high up... and it did.

Actually, it seems that virtual pump [called something like the NADW (Nrth Atlantic Deep Water pump] over near Greenland just kicked back in full gear last year, so don't worry about your MGS... but the main cause was the Arctic Oscillation reversal that had a longer than DA lifetime negative pitch of -3.41, which pushed that several times mentioned cold Jetstream down to you / northern Europe. Combo'd with El Niño driven H2O air content it turned all white.

A side effect was that where marysduby lives, somewhere east coast USA, they had a coastal sea level rise due to slowing... the amazing effect of gravity and pull some having gauged period of 60cm SLR. When the Antarctic coastal high rise land-fast Ice plates are going [stacked thousand of years snow compilation], some monsters just slipped off floating to Australia, The Antarctic gravity pull will reduce causing SLR elsewhere on the planet... just like that... yes gravity also works sideways... long as there is enough offsetting mass.

Another variable, but we've know that one for longer too. Just waiting on that new miracle variable that has been missed by those 10s of thousands of researcher, physicists included, that will proof that added GHGs, mainly CO2, will magically not do their work starting at the 15 micron wavelength. If we stop today with all fossil fuel burning it's thought that at least 30 years are needed to have the atmosphere re-equilibrate... at a higher global temp. That part of stopping FFB is a pipedream of course. Summary we're already committed to continued climate change for the next 30 years. The Ain't True-ist by their nature will thus posit: "Why then do anything ?" Well, question is, what about our kids?



I'm in total suspense on that peer reviewed opinion, but that you will be smacked with heavier more acute down pours had been predicted too, for longer. Not good for farmers... they like regular English drizzle. Think you had an exhibition some months ago in Cumbria what climate change has in store for the Albion... yes it's happening.

Warming oceans btw let loose more vapor before the surface water is being sucked under near Greenland... more salt content in the surface layer, getting cooler and heavier, the size and weight to keep that pump going, self propelling almost. It's kind of the mechanism that drives ENSO too, the alternation of deep ocean, cold water, yes it used to be just 1C being pushed up to take in all those atmospheric extra joules.

PS: Yes, it's the same ~1366 Watts/Meter square at TOA, except there's more never saturating CO2 to bounce the earth's reflected IR around and back again and hand off and bounce back again and again and again, handing it off to anything else in the atmosphere, time and again... yes this CO2 molecule is very dangerous when left as trace gas in the atmosphere. It's used to be okay, once it settled on 280 ppmv... now we're heading fast for > 400... 2015 or there abouts and CH4 adding too, lest that was missed.

When a volcano erupts on Iceland (a stumble-upon quote)...



Some will say brrrr, dress up warm, some will go weak in the knees... it might be in the UK if events repeat itself... the effects come with a few month lag, if they come. Some of the aerosols such as from Pinatubo helped plant growth by diffusing light... also a variable we know and put in the multi-run GCR emulations.