Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update – small dead animals

This snow has flatten all the standing crops around Olds. It's still coming down. #flatcrops pic.twitter.com/ppHlvU3iii

— Jack Payne (@trouttroller) September 8, 2014

Guardian: “All is going as was not predicted, but could have. Or something.”

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The rabbits started turning white mid-August this year. I guess they didn’t get Michael Mann’s memo that there would be no snow this winter. It’s still snowing here in Hanna, AB, as I type this, but not as bad as Olds, thankfully.

Still coming down in Calgary, albeit lightly at present. It’s supposed to pick up again tonight.

What a great thesis.
Essentially, “If I knew what the future held, I could predict it with 100% certainty.” Brilliant!
If I had known, in 1990, the 2014 share price of Apple stock, I would have written a program that told me to buy their stock.

Still coming down lightly here, out east of Olds. Mostly melted on the gravel and pavement, but the grass and the crops are heavily covered. I don’t know what effect it will have on the standing canola crop near me. Some nearby fields have already been swathed.

“Like a weather prediction system, the models just need appropriate initial conditions, and then their skill on the decadal time-scale comes through.”
Bwahhahahah…..chaos theory, anyone….

I feel sorry for those fellows with standing crops that now look like that. We had similar situations twice in the 1980s, although a little later in the month, and it was not fun trying to swath once it was dry enough. No pickup fingers in those days. Today they have well functioning pickup reels that will get most of this downed material. But, there will be losses and quality downgrades.
Slightly off topic and somewhat related to the snow, but it does not seem to matter what the topic is, the AGW cultists have to throw in their religion, as in the “Franklin” thread above. In the “circa” link in the thread there are all kinds of references to global warming. How did Franklin’s fragile wooden sailing vessel get that far in the first place?

Lots of “This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn’t abide by our community standards” at the Guardian article. Gee, I wonder why?

Wow, the straw-grasping at the guardian is getting comical. We didn’t know XYZ in 1990 and, if we had, we would have predicted this.
Bullspit.
I guarantee there are many things still not known about the climate system, it’s forcings and feedbacks. Over time, we will know more but, as jcl astutely put it, chaos theory will invalidate all forecasts. I have yet to have any man made climate change doomsayer give me a good answer as to why computers should be able to solve differential equations with approximations and fudge factors. Weather models are predicated on them, are useful (but never exactly right) for about a week, 10 days at the outside, and climate models must be the same. All I get is a slack jaw and then I get called that vile slur, “denier”.
Ah well, such is life.

If only we listened to the warnings of climate scientists in the 1970s and prepared for this new ice age…

I smell blood in the water. “If I knew then what I know now, I’d have been right.”
That’s right up there with predicting the past. They’ll probably have to go back to cooling the past and estimating the present.

Just in to hold a press conference in these snow covered fields to announce his policy to implement a carbon tax to fight global warming.
A clever Conservative war room would make that a campaign ad.
I can see it now, a Just in snow man advocating a carbon tax to fight global warming. Dated Sept. 8th.

That Aussie genius is trying to tell us “if we’d known there was going to be a hiatus back in 1990, we could have predicted a hiatus.”
Some scientist.