Global Warming Hits The Rockies Hard

Reuters understates it a bit in their headline,"Record snow, cold, slams northern U.S. Rockies with winter-like weather," but the article notes that:

       [A]s much as 4 feet (121 cm) of snow fell in places and hard-hit Montana declared a state of emergency to clear blocked roads.

      "You have to go back to the 1930s before you find another storm like this, this early in the season," said Josh Weiss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center.

      "A pretty good swath of the northwest got 2-3 feet (60-91 cm) of snow," Weiss said. "It's a pretty good storm."

      About 19 inches of snow fell in northwestern Washington state, and light snow also fell in areas of California, Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon and Idaho, forecasters said.

      Another 1-2 inches (2.5 - 5 cm) of snow was expected by mid-Monday in spots, with winter storm warnings in effect for western Montana and the mountains of northern Washington and northern Idaho.

 Although we did not have snow where I live, we had our first frost warning, and I woke up this morning to the sight of frost on the ground and on vehicles that were parked outside.

     Forgive the mocking tone in the title to this post, but there is little evidence that global warming is occurring as climate scientists (and I use that term loosely) believe. All of their models have been wrong and it is increasingly become clear that they are ignoring and/or unaware of many of the important variables affecting the climate.

     John Wilder goes into the gory details of the failure of the various climate models and predictions in his article, "The Global Warming Memo They Don’t Want You To See (Okay, I wrote it.)." Recommended reading.

    Part of the problem is that climate researchers know so little about climate forcing that they don't know what they don't know. But that hasn't stopped the mass hysteria about global warming. Someday, historians will look back on this period of time and group it together with events such as the Salem witch trials.