Allee Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 10 hours ago, SunSurfer said: In contrast the ski areas in the South Island have had more snow this year than for 20 years. I heard that, but I didn't know about Ruapehu. The weather in the South Island (and a lot of the North Island) this winter has been interesting, to say the least. Parents live in a no precipitation zone in Blenheim, and they had a year's worth of rain in a week. Meanwhile in Calgary, this has been consistently the hottest summer I can remember since I moved here 20 years ago. We don't usually get that many days over 30C, and this year we've had weeks of them. It will be interesting to see how this winter shapes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west carven Posted August 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 howdy normally our weather comes from Siberia and pushes down thru Alaska so this is a bit concerning... Lakes are disappearing in the Arctic as the region warms nearly four times faster as the rest of the planet... the last sentence in the article shoud be "The tumbleweed is already rolling," not "The snowball is already rolling," ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/new-zealand-weather-warmest-wettest-winter-on-record-aotearoa Cold enough down south for about 6 weeks for much of that rain to fall as snow there. Farther north it fell as rain (see Allee's comments above). The cold enough window gets shorter, year by year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west carven Posted September 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 howdy from earth.org ... Glacial Melting in Greenland Will Raise Sea Level by 10 Inches: Study ... and from the south ... A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 Good news for our European brothers. All that cold water will stop the Gulf Current, resulting in a mini ice age in Europe. At least, that's how it went last time around... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 USA air quality plummets as a result of wildfires made more likely by global heating. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/22/air-quality-wildfire-smoke-pollution-health-risks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Ruapehu Alpine Lifts goes into voluntary administration. This is the operator of 2 commercial ski fields in the North Island of New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300710275/ruapehu-skifield-operator-placed-in-voluntary-administration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 On 10/11/2022 at 7:22 AM, SunSurfer said: Ruapehu Alpine Lifts goes into voluntary administration. This is the operator of 2 commercial ski fields in the North Island of New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300710275/ruapehu-skifield-operator-placed-in-voluntary-administration That is peak snow-sports season?! Looks more like peak bike-park season. I'm a little nervous about our local bump that just splashed out on a new high-speed 6-seater with wind-shield and heated seats. Energy prices in Europe are going to skyrocket this winter and the water reservoirs that supply the snow cannons have been shrinking every year for the past 3 or 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 That is peak snow sports season on a field that was opened in 1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted October 13, 2022 Report Share Posted October 13, 2022 No surprise for those people who had their eyes open. RAL did not explicitly acknowledge climate change as a risk to their business in their annual reports. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130146363/ruapehu-ski-field-crisis-a-climate-change-wakeup-call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west carven Posted January 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 howdy Can Swiss ski resorts survive climate change? ... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 There is a current warm spell of weather in Europe that has caused quite a number of resorts to close for lack of snow midseason! https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2023/jan/06/alpine-ski-resorts-snow-shortage-in-pictures 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWM Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 (edited) Quite dramatic, and completely unsurprising. And yet... Waiting just offstage is 3*C warming, mumbling something to his drunken self about "hold my beer." Edited January 6, 2023 by TWM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Donnelly Posted January 7, 2023 Report Share Posted January 7, 2023 additional photos: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/europe-snowless-ski-slopes-photo-scroller-1.6705657 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmoore Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 5:21 PM, Pat Donnelly said: additional photos: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/europe-snowless-ski-slopes-photo-scroller-1.6705657 Sobering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted April 1, 2023 Report Share Posted April 1, 2023 http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/131658460/aerial-survey-shows-worrisome-trend-as-new-zealand-glaciers-shrink Annual aerial glacier survey for end of summer 2023 in New Zealand just completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted April 8, 2023 Report Share Posted April 8, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/08/headed-off-the-charts-worlds-ocean-surface-temperature-hits-record-high 3 year long La Nina in the Pacific coming to an end. That has slowed the sea surface temp rise for those years. Warmer water surface = stronger storms and heavier rainfall when they come ashore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted April 8, 2023 Report Share Posted April 8, 2023 On 1/6/2023 at 11:49 AM, SunSurfer said: There is a current warm spell of weather in Europe that has caused quite a number of resorts to close for lack of snow midseason! https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2023/jan/06/alpine-ski-resorts-snow-shortage-in-pictures You can go now, they don't know what to do with all the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryj Posted April 8, 2023 Report Share Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) I found this to be a exceptional read on the global impact that the Boreal treeline (which encircles the earth via Scotland, Norway, Finland, Russia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada and is significantly much larger and more effective as the heart, lungs and circulatory system of the earth than the South American Rain Forests) is actually moving because it's following global warming! After reading it I bought additional copies for friends ........and especially the naysayers! Edited April 8, 2023 by barryj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted April 8, 2023 Report Share Posted April 8, 2023 45 minutes ago, BlueB said: You can go now, they don't know what to do with all the snow. Sadly I got to visit Europe (Val d'Isere) in late Feb when new snow was still scarce. My next snow is hopefully in August, in New Zealand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted June 22, 2023 Report Share Posted June 22, 2023 More than 50% of people in USA have had "extreme weather" alerts in the last 6 weeks! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/us-extreme-weather-six-weeks-heatwaves-storms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/something-weird-is-going-on-search-for-answers-as-antarctic-sea-ice-stays-at-historic-lows While the Northern Hemisphere burns, Antarctica is not freezing the way it should in our winter. Something weird, and worrying, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmoore Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 13 minutes ago, SunSurfer said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/something-weird-is-going-on-search-for-answers-as-antarctic-sea-ice-stays-at-historic-lows While the Northern Hemisphere burns, Antarctica is not freezing the way it should in our winter. Something weird, and worrying, indeed. Disturbing trend. Very well written article, Thanks for sharing it. It wraps up with: High stakes Losing Antarctica’s sea ice would have major knock-on effects – not just for the krill, fish, penguins, seals and other animals that rely on it. Melting sea ice doesn’t itself raise sea levels because it’s already floating. But Dr Ariaan Purich, a climate scientist at Monash University and an expert on the continent’s sea ice, lists three reasons to be concerned. Loss of ice means less of the sun’s energy is reflected back to space, causing more warming of the ocean. Antarctic sea ice also influences the way the ocean circulates oxygen and nutrients around the globe. But the sea ice also protects the ice attached to the land by buffering waves, and this is what many scientists find the most troubling. “Without it, the waves break on the ice shelves and cause them to break away faster. Then the ice sheet could slide into the ocean faster, raising sea levels globally,” says Purich. “I think everyone’s asking what’s happening right now. It’s unbelievable. There’s this worry about what kind of world we’re coming in to. “Given the evidence, I feel like it would be irresponsible not to be linking it to global warming, with a warmer atmosphere and a warmer ocean.” All the scientists Guardian Australia spoke to said there was a desperate need for more research and funding to help them to provide answers. “I’m genuinely worried,” says Hobbs. “As a scientist I’m worried that I can’t find the answers, or that we might have missed something. And it feels like the stakes are very high in getting this wrong. “If – and it’s a big if – this is a functional collapse of the system, that means we need to reappraise our sea level projections, and that affects a lot of people. These are the stakes we are playing for. As scientists we have a real responsibility not to mess this up.” _________________________________________________________________________________ The following article isn't getting much attention but should be. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-sea-level-rise-climate/index.html "If Greenland’s ice sheet were to melt completely, sea levels would rise by about 7 meters (23 feet) causing devastation to the billions who live along the world’s coasts." Edited July 29, 2023 by patmoore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted July 29, 2023 Report Share Posted July 29, 2023 33 minutes ago, patmoore said: Disturbing trend. Very well written article, Thanks for sharing it....... The Guardian is not your typical newspaper/news website. Wikipedia summarises - "The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959.[4] Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited.[5] The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference".[6] The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders.[6] It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK.[7][8]" Its overall editorial slant is left wing in the context of British politics. It is an excellent source of worldwide news with several "editions" depending upon which part of the world you come from. While it can be read for free, I pay a very modest amount each year to support its news gathering. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted July 30, 2023 Report Share Posted July 30, 2023 On 7/29/2023 at 1:19 AM, patmoore said: The following article isn't getting much attention but should be. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-sea-level-rise-climate/index.html "If Greenland’s ice sheet were to melt completely, sea levels would rise by about 7 meters (23 feet) causing devastation to the billions who live along the world’s coasts." For that to happen, the entire surface of Greenland would have to be covered by more than 1.2 km thick ice. It's hard to buy, no matter what Wiki says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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