I agree. Anyone who thinks that there will no snow in ten years is insane. Good thing that he doesn't think that. Because if he did he would just as idiotic as someone who thinks a local cold snap and some snow cover over the nation has any relevance at all to decades-long climate change or somehow disproves GW even in the slightest. But hardly anyone is so moronic as to suggest such a thing. Well, maybe a few Fox News anchors.
Yeah, kinda like the AGW nutters blaming a WEATHER event on GW, uh???
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=hurricane+sandy+blamed+on+global+warming
No, not really. One can rightfully say that every weather event is being effected by GW because all weather events are now occurring in a higher enthalpy (heat content) and unusual atmospheric system. However one cannot rightfully say that any weather event dictates climate trends. Only after decades of considering ALL weather events can anything be said that is meaningful about climate trends.
as they could at anytime since the thaw from the last ice age.
Wrong.
There has never been a comparable period in history as today. Never before has 9 billion tons per year of the greenhouse gas CO2 been released as is now occurring. The rate of warming and CO2 increase is unprecedented. Certainly within the past few thousand years. The state of the climate is unusual.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...lowdown-due-to-pacific-winds-study-shows.html
Tradewinds? Something else not predicted? According to this article there has been a hiatus. Sounds like a trend to me, and I don't know of anyone who thinks a single weather event equals a trend change. As indicated in this article, the warming has not panned out over the last decade. That's not me saying it. See last paragraph.
Yes, as the article says....." A paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in May found that ocean waters below 700 meters (2,300 feet) have absorbed more heat since 1999. "
And while the temp rise in the atmosphere has paused, global warming, which to be accurate must include the oceans, has not even slowed down.