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Rethinking the mystery of stratospheric cooling

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
This paper claims that stratospheric cooling is the work of "greenhouse gases". Saying: "An extended satellite temperature record and the chemistry‐climate models show weaker global stratospheric cooling over 1998-2016 compared to 1979-1997."
Stratospheric Cooling
Figure 1 from the paper. Time series of global monthly mean temperature anomalies (K) for the period 1979–2016 for the data sets andaltitude ranges stated in thefigure. Anomalies are shown relative to a baseline of 1979–1981. The number of individualensemble members plotted for each model is shown in the legend. The multimodel mean is shown in thick purple.Note that only the CESM1(WACCM), GEOSCCM, ULAQ-CCM, and UMUKCA-UCAM models include the radiative effectsof volcanic aerosols over the hindcast period in the refC2 experiment. Note the UK Met Office SSU data set is shown as6-month averages. (a) SSU channel 3 (~40–50 km). (b) SSU channel 2 (~35–45 km). (c) SSU channel 1 (~25–35 km). (d) MSUchannel 4 (~13–22 km). SSU = Stratospheric Sounding Unit.

Comment: See also: Temperatures have dropped to -91°C (-131,8°F) in the stratosphere!

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Indonesian tsunami - Record snow - More Grand Solar Minimum signs?


Adapt 2030
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:04 UTC
A gigantic tsunami has crashed into the Indonesian coast
A gigantic tsunami has crashed into the Indonesian coast

With the Indonesian 7.7 earthquake and tsunami, at the same time Krakatou awoke with over 50 eruptions in the W. Java island area.

All time coldest days in Germany and Netherlands, snowiest September in Alberta and massive frost damage to Australian crops in spring.

Do you think the intensifying Grand Solar Minimum is the cause of the changes we are seeing?


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Snowflake

Snow hampers harvests in Saskatchewan and Alberta

Diego Flammini
Farms.com
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:14 UTC
Fields across much of Alberta have been hit hard by both snow and rain
© Jeffrey Heyden-KayeFields across much of Alberta have been hit hard by both snow and rain
Early signs of winter are keeping some combines idle in Western Canada.

Parts of Alberta received several consecutive days of snow, putting grain harvest on hold.

Alberta farmers harvested 31.3 per cent of their spring wheat crop as of Sept. 18, an Alberta Agriculture report says. That number is well below the five-year average of 55.9 per cent.

Canola producers are also feeling the effects of the early snowfalls.

"The snow is slowing wheat and canola farmers down," Denis Guindon, a director with the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, told Farms.com. "The snow is pushing the wheat down so farmers can't harvest the crop. And there's not much canola being harvested because of the snow and fluctuating temperatures.

Comment: See also: A taste of the future: 'Disbelief' as snow hits and northern Alberta farmers scramble to save crops worth millions

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Snowflake

Up to 6 inches of early snow blankets the Black Hills, South Dakota

Shawn Cable
ksfy.com
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:25 UTC
Black Hills snow on Friday morning, Sept 28, 2018.
Black Hills snow on Friday morning, Sept 28, 2018.
Our weather will be cooler and a bit fall-like this weekend, but that's nothing compared the weather some residents of the Black Hills woke up to on Friday morning.

4 to 6 inches of snow blanketed higher elevations of the Central and Northern Black Hills Thursday night into Friday morning. While most places that got snow received between 1 and 4 inches, the snow was a bit heavier in the highest elevations. The National Weather Service Office in Rapid City reported 6 inches of snow near Hill City and 6.5 inches of snow near Deerfield.

The snow will end by early Friday afternoon. It won't stick around for long, either. Temperatures will warm back into the 50s by Saturday afternoon.

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Snowflake Cold

Germany - Coldest September morning since weather records began!

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:31 UTC
COLD MAP
Not just for the day, mind you, but for the entire month.
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Greetings Robert! I am a follower and Reader of Iceagenow living in Munich Germany and I think this bit of news is worth posting on iceagenow.

Just like in the Netherlands, Germany is also experiencing record low temps for September! Just days after Summer officially ended, an unusually strong Polar Air mass with record subfreezing temperatures has settled across West Central Europe.

Here is the Graphic and Translated Text from Wetteronline.de
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Snowflake Cold

Ice Age Farmer Report: Time is short - Record colds globally - Cover-up in overdrive - Prepare NOW


Ice Age Farmer
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:14 UTC
A view of a snow-covered hills, at Keylong
© PTIA view of a snow-covered hills, at Keylong in Lahaul-Spiti district, Monday, September 24, 2018. Over 1,500 tourists are stranded in the district due to heavy snowfall even as rescue operations are continuing.
All-time cold/snow records in Netherlands, France, Germany, India, Canada, Aus, NZ.

Establishment is frantically changing the data, rewriting history, and censoring opposition, but the crop losses are impossible to hide.

Start growing your own food and preparing immediately.


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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Arctic methane release & 50% crop losses in W. Australia


Adapt 2030
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:44 UTC
WA wheat crop losses
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Sydney Morning Herald has a spooky headline Arctic Methane seeping from lakes its runaway global warming greenhouse gasses, oh wait, its a remote lake off the Brooks Range in Alaska's North Slope oil and gas production areas. It gets better, they blame humans for causing permafrost melt but then say this methane isn't from permafrost melt its an oil field seep, all they while forgetting record cold and crop losses in W. Australia during the same week. So much for unbiased media.

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Snowflake Cold

Young man dies of hypothermia after early blizzard in Romania's mountains


Romania Insider
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:25 UTC
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A 22-year old hiker died at the hospital in Sibiu after a blizzard caught him on a ridge at over 2000 meters in the Fagaras mountains.

The mountain rescuers brought him and the girl who was with him down from the mountain, but the doctors couldn't save him, local Digi24 reported. He suffered from extreme hypothermia and was in critical condition. The girl who was with him was also admitted in the hospital with hypothermia and frostbites.

The mountain rescuers said the hikers had mountain equipment suitable for this period of the year but that the weather conditions were extreme and only winter equipment could have saved the young climber.

The weather in Romania got very cold at the beginning of this week and it even snowed at over 2000 meters. The famous high-altitude roads Transalpina and Transfagarasan were covered in snow and the mountain rescuers were called to help some tourists who were blocked by snow on Transalpina and had to sleep in their cars.

Comment: See also: Early snowfall hits Sibiu, Romania

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Indonesia earthquake: Powerful shallow 7.5-magnitude quake strikes east of Borneo - one of 6.1 hit 3 hours earlier

Tom Barnes
The Independent (UK)
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:15 UTC
EARTHQUAKE
Earlier tremors destroyed houses, killing one person and injuring at least 10

A powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning.

The huge 7.5 magnitude quake was recorded near the island of Sulawesi, east of Borneo, the US Geological Survey said.

Authorities lifted an early tsunami warning within an hour, although officials warned those in the area to remain vigilant as a number of aftershocks hit.

Comment: Earthquake Track reports the depth as being just 10 kms and the event having 5 strong aftershocks in the subsequent hour.

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Avalanche sweeps away climbers on Mount Athabasca in Alberta as early snow depth hits one metre in some high alpine areas

Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:33 UTC
Two climbers were buried in a 2.5 size avalanche on Mt. Athabasca, Sept. 19. Both suffered serious, but non life-threatening injuries.
Two climbers were buried in a 2.5 size avalanche on Mt. Athabasca, Sept. 19. Both suffered serious, but non life-threatening injuries.
An early season avalanche swept away two climbers on Mount Athabasca in Jasper National Park last week, prompting Parks Canada to issue an early season avalanche warning.

The two climbers from Jasper were roped together on the Silverhorn route when they triggered a 2.5 size avalanche around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 19). The female leader was partially buried, and her male climbing partner helped dig her out.

The avalanche dragged them 600 metres down the side of the mountain before they came to a stop below the ramp of the north glacier. They were flown by helicopter to the Jasper hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.

"The leader described the climbing as 'styrofoam like' snow," according to a report by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG).
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