Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

February 09, 2014

Global Something Caused by Canada! Or, Is Being Anecdotal Invalid, Now?


Great Lakes ice cover spreading rapidly; see which lake set a new record

Mark Torregrossa | For MLive.comBy Mark Torregrossa | For MLive.com 
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on February 06, 2014 at 4:21 PM, updated February 07, 2014 at 7:08 PM
Ice continued to build this past week on the Great Lakes due to the cold air and temperatures staying below freezing, and Lake Superior's new record shows it.
The lake is 92 percent frozen, toppling a 20-year-old record of 91 percent set on Feb. 5, 1994. That statistic helped total Great Lakes ice cover soar, and we can expect to see more form in coming days.
The air temperatures this past week averaged around five degrees below normal for the Great Lakes area. This amount of deviation from normal means it was a fairly cold week.
As of February 5, 2014, the entire Great Lakes system is now reportedly covered 77 percent with ice, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Last week at this time the ice cover was 66 percent. The 77 percent ice cover now still lags behind 1994, when the entire Great Lakes system had an average ice cover of 84 percent on February 5. This data is according to Jia Wang, physical oceanographer at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Center in Ann Arbor, MI....


Not By Fire, But By Ice.

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August 20, 2013

End Times: North Pole In Freakish Cold Spell. Did Gene cause it by not driving enough?

EcoPress: NY. Cunningham avoiding the press. Promises to drive to the mountains, soon, to spew out more poison gas. He reports he is worried because the sun comes up when the cock crows and the freakin' bird died. More on the end times, soon.  Maybe.

Clearly, man made CO2 is not sufficient to keep the earth at what scientists voted was its proper climate. A law has to be introduced into Congress to set up an End Times Fund.  The issue is whether weather is coming to an end. Can we run solar panels after  Armageddon? Would it help if we induced more volcanic eruptions?


Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record
“Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that,”  says Steven Goddard website.


Graph courtesy of COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut       Thanks to F. Guimaraes for this link
“The Arctic ice extent is showing a remarkable recovery from the great oscillations of 2012,” says Guimaraes. “Compare with the previous years listed there, you’ll see that 2004 is the year that is closest to 2013 in terms of average temps during the summer.”
(You can compare by looking at the Archives (Arkiv) on the left side of the page.)
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I told you the Canadian scientists said it was the wind.  It is black and white on the net.  You can also find how polar bears love swimming, the poor stupid creatures. They should be drowning in hot water like that frog we keep hearing about.

CO2 Nears 400 ppm – Relax! It’s Not Global Warming ‘End Times’ —Climate Depot Special Report: Renowned Climatologist: ‘You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide’

PS: What the hell does that graph mean.  I am not going to read the article. 

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