Since the air is warmer and has more water vapor precip events are getting more extreme. Yes this storm was effected by global warming, as all weather events now are. Just a hint of what's to come. Batten down the hatches.
I don't know. Here's an interesting look at the climate science behind it... http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/26/3615330/blizzards-climate-scientists/
On Climate Change, 'Not A Scientist' Not Enough For Some Republicans Reuters Posted: 01/27/2015 7:00 am EST Updated: 3 hours ago By Valerie Volcovici and Amanda Becker "WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Rick Perry's farewell speech to the Texas legislature listed the accomplishments expected from an outgoing Republican governor of the country's largest oil-producing state. But his Jan. 15 speech also did something less predictable: touting his environmental record, from lowering Texas' carbon emissions to turning the state into a global leader in wind energy production. "We have expanded our economy while protecting our environment," said Perry, who is openly exploring a second White House run in 2016. "It was a greener message than the one he delivered ahead of his last presidential campaign, when he called climate change a "contrived phony mess," and it reflects an expectation among some in the party that voters in 2016 will want Republican candidates to develop a more sophisticated climate change message. "'I'm not a scientist' won't be a winner in the presidential field," Republican strategist Ford O'Connell said of the now common response Republican lawmakers and candidates offer when asked about climate change. "With the national party largely silent on the issue, conservative environmental groups like ConservAmerica are stepping up efforts to sharpen the Republican message. In recent months they have held meetings for like-minded conservatives and met with lawmakers and aides in a bid to help craft a new Republican environmental platform. "Attempts to strike a softer tone will collide with entrenched resistance, primarily from the donor network in the orbit of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who oppose any attempt to regulate the oil, gas and chemical industries that are the backbone of their empire. "Conservative political advocacy groups supported by the Kochs plan to spend $889 million in 2016, the Washington Post said on Monday. "Those pushing the party to adopt a more palatable message on the environment say it is possible to stake out environmental positions that can appeal to young and independent voters without offending the party's free-market, anti-regulation base. "Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said the outgoing governor has long called smart regulations in Texas "proof that economic growth and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive." ELECTORAL SHIFT "The search for a new message on climate change is driven by electoral math. "While leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress have vowed to block regulations to control carbon emissions, a poll by Yale University earlier this month found that 56 percent of Republicans support regulating climate-warming greenhouse gases. "Red state disputation of science isn't going to work," said former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis, noting that voters..." Continue >>
This is greatly amusing because all the reputable scientists and meteorologists already predicted that due to the a hurricane season that produced nearly no major storms that the Atlantic ocean would remain warm this winter because the hurricanes did not suck all the heat out of it. This leads to the increased likelihood of strong winter storms on the Atlantic seaboard because of the heat remaining in the ocean. This situation is the exact same as last year when we had a weak hurricane season. That Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a well-known global warming alarmist, in the article tries to make out that "there is a “big part” played by “human-induced climate change,” especially warming-fueled ocean temperatures" is simply the height of absurdity. This weather phenomena has been going on for 10s of thousands of years and has nothing to do with man-made global warming.
We dispute the assertion you are trying to make with the photographs that all the glaciers are shrinking due to "global warming". Some glaciers are increasing in size, others are shrinking - no different than any other period in the earth's history.
real conservatives... conserve. we should be conserving our oceans, our air our water.... intelligently. Not wasting billions on trying to ban something which is plant food... which is greener the earth... which may be needed to feed all these people. If the choice is warm or cool we should all hope for a bit warmer. If the choice is stay the same or warm a bit... its an interesting call. Certainly we one we can most like adjust too. But with the prospect of 10 billion people on the earth... we better start protection our source of fish, our drinking and cultivating water and our air. When the establishment on the right and left are both on board with these co2 schemes... you really have to suspicious. Amnesty obmamacare global warming higher taxes more spending vs freedom intelligent conservation -- where did all the intelligent conservationists go? why do we here so little about protecting our oceans? I will tell you why.. the activists are all getting the agw money. the real conservationist liberals have been mostly cut off from the govt spigot... you have to ask yourself why?