Yes increased snow can be caused by warmer temperatures; except the last ten years have not really been significantly warmer.
I recently read from a UN Scientist that cooler temperatures are also a "by-product" of global warming (I guess he is so smart he understands that and the rest of us utilizing common sense just don't get it). In the future I imagine that hotter summers will be explained as a by-product of global cooling. While global warming can be used to justify any weather deviation, it is proving more and more to be bull.
What is not bull and is easily provable is changing land use patterns. The increase of corn production to feed the ethanol to solve so called warming is a big factor in habitat loss. The retasking of land to corn and other grain production unlike supposed warming is a provable fact. In discussion with farmers this last week in SD I heard at least three times that when the current CRP contract is over the land is going into corn. After all the local ethanol plant needs so many million bushels a year to stay busy.
Not only is the global warming issue bogus, but taxpayers are subsidizing what would otherwise be an uneconomical feel good tree hug in ethanol. It is sad that so many can be fooled so often.
Even those not fooled become willing dupes or worse yet coconspirators in order to profit from it through participation in subsidized programs that would be otherwise economically unfeasible.
Watching the fleecing of the taxpayer by both sides of the aisle to pad the pockets and reinforce the dubious beliefs of their key backers is sickening. Living with the byproduct of beltway profitiers and others???? Long term I wonder why I bother.
Last edited by old colonel; 10/23/13 09:53 AM.
