[Vision2020] Record Warm Temps In Edmonton

[Ted Moffett]

Most of the Northern Hemisphere is ocean, not land.  Therefore for most of
the northern hemisphere to be experiencing the weather you indicate was
happening, you would have to provide data on weather over the
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, et. al.

I continue to be amazed at how often public discussion of anthropogenic
climate warming focus on the 30 percent of global area covered by land, as
though this mostly sums up global climate, while little data on what is
happening in the 70 percent of global area covered by oceans is given.  All
of the land masses on Earth could be experiencing colder than historical
average weather, while the oceans are experiencing warmer than historical
average weather, in sum resulting in a warmer than average global climate.
I am not saying this extreme event separating land and ocean could happen,
but only pointing out that what happens over and in the oceans is more than
double the Earth's climate that occurs over land masses.

I suppose it is understandable that people focus on the weather where they
live on land as though it defines our planet.  But it mostly does not.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Northwest has been an anomaly as far as the rest of the country and
> most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is concerned.  A quick Google
> search for "record snowfall 2010" finds news stories about record snowfall
> in the following places (just from the first few pages):
>
> Washington DC, Vermont, Texas, Britain, China, Russia, Pennsylvania, New
> York, Maryland, Indiana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Florida, South Korea,
> Delaware, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Virginia,
> Georgia, and Germany.
>
> The East Coast and the South were hit especially hard.
>
> Ted did a great job predicting our winter here.  Did anyone predict the
> massive snowfall seen in the rest of the world?
>
> Paul
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> --- On Sun, 3/7/10, Gier, Nicholas <NGIER at uidaho.edu> wrote:
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> > From: Gier, Nicholas <NGIER at uidaho.edu>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Record Warm Temps In Edmonton
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 10:47 PM
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> > Record Warm Temps In Edmonton
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> > Greetings:
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> > Late this afternoon I checked the temperature in Edmonton
> > where my daughter and her husband live and work at the U. of
> > Alberta.  It was 45 degrees F.  Last year at this
> > time my daughter bundled up to go to her office and the
> > temperature was a -22 degrees F.
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> > Happy Early Spring,
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> > Nick Gier
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