About a day left to go in the Kickstarter fund drive to put Climate Crocks on ice.
The gig is fully funded, right now – but any additional funds will be plowed into upgrading my tools, with the hope of even more ambitious field trips in the future. I’m dutifully trudging up and down the stairs at my local football stadium in preparation for humping it up Easton Glacier on Mount Baker just a few weeks from now.
Have been getting some good tips from pros in the field on what types of gear to pick up and advice from my guide, Dr. Mauri Pelto, as well.
As of midnight, friday, july 13th, the campaign will close, and the pledges will be processed. Deepest and humblest gratitude to all those who kicked in. I’ll do my best to make it worth your while.
Peter should greet this one with a certain amount of excitement.
20 Biggest Snowfall Totals in North America | The 2011/12 Season
#1 – Alyeska, AK = 962”
#2 – Mt. Baker, WA = 800″
http://unofficialnetworks.com/top-20-biggest-snowfall-totals-north-america-201112-99030/
Peter is not interested that I have been to the top of Huayna Picchu in Peru and was astonished to see that the Inca (Quechua) had terraces all the way to the very top of this mountain with steps carved in the solid rock so that they could take advantage of the climate at that altitude. He is also not interested that I also paid my own way to hike across the Grand Canyon in Oct. when it was cold on the North Rim but 100*F at the Bright Angel camp ground. His report on the shrinking glacier will be interesting to read.
Nobody is really interested in your ranting.
jdouglashuahin I’m interested!
On your expeditions did you accompany a team of scientists undertaking field research?
Did you record and document that work?
Do you run a website or blog where your work and informed presentation of Climate Science and related issues is available for everyone to view and comment?
Or were your expeditions self-funded adventure holidays?
I can’t speak for Peter or 141 other backers but I find your comments insulting and ignorant!
My adventures have all been self funded other than when I got a paid for adventure in Vietnam many years ago that was provided by a far left president, LBJ.
I could care less if you find anything that I commented on regarding this to be “insulting and ignorant!” If you are insulted by this, then you are easy to insult and you need to get a life away from the blog scene.
I worked in the arctic at a resource extraction job (a zinc mine and I well imagine you are horrified at that and do not understand that if there was no demand for the product there would be no one extracting the zinc and it is the most remote site in the U.S.) for 14 years that required 12 hour days for 28 days straight with no days off. I then had 14 days off plus vacation time that allowed me to go where ever I desired in the world and I did not ask one person for one thing to pay for these “Or were your expeditions self-funded adventure holidays?” and for sure nothing came out of your easily insulted hip pocket; so, why does it matter to you that I have been to over 54 countries and many of them more than once, such as nine times to Denmark, and paid for it all MYSELF? I have good friends that live there and that is something that you have probably never had, a good friend.
That global warming is really kicking AK’s hind end this year and since I lived in AK for 24 years, I know that it is part of the US. I doubt that you will even be able to see the glacier on MT Adams for all of that damn snow on it. That Jet Stream is quite a thing to have to try to enter into your alarmist answer of how the WEATHER performs.
“By Alaska’s summer standards, it’s been cool in Southcentral Alaska this month and especially this week. (By Lower 48 standards, it’s flat out cold). It’s been so cool in Anchorage that … high temperatures have been colder than Barrow, the ninth northernmost city in the world.
On July 11, Anchorage’s high was 56 degrees. A day later, it maxed out at 54. To date, Anchorage has not seen one day this month at or above the projected average high of 65-66 degrees.”
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/could-be-coldest-july-history-anchorage
I know a number of people who have traveled and learned nothing.
I’ll add you to that list. As a matter of fact, I have spent a lot of time recently talking to actual scientists who study the jet stream, and its recent behavior.
Your appraisal of me and my knowledge is as off base as the video that I watched that was presented by agenda driven folks that do not know enough about this to even ask the proper questions, such as: Where was the Jet Stream during the devastating 10 year long drought of the 1930?
“Over the 11-year span from 1930-1940, a large part of the region saw 15% to 25% less precipitation than normal. This is very significant to see such a large deficit over such a long period of time. This translates to 50 to 60 inches of much needed moisture which never arrived that decade. For an area which only averages less than 20 inches of precipitation a year, deficits like this can make the region resemble a desert. Deficits like this are the equivalent of missing three entire years of expected precipitation in one decade.”
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/?n=dust_bowl_verses_today
“Severe drought in 1934 covered 80% of the country, compared with 25% in 2011
In June, 1934 the entire country had triple digit heat. We didn’t come anywhere close to that this summer.”
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf
This site has some credible information on the Jet Stream and what it does to the WEATHER to effected areas of the earth and you will see from this information that this not a NEW thing. Please notice that these sources do not have an old Chinese woman with a goat horn in her forehead.
“Perhaps the strongest nor’easter of this century struck on March 5-9, 1962. It is known as the Ash Wednesday Storm. It caused over $200 million (1962 dollars) in property damage and major coastal erosion from North Carolina to Long Island, NY. In New Jersey alone, it was estimated to have destroyed or greatly damaged 45,000 homes.”
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/winter/DC-Winters.htm
“Winter of 1779-1780: This winter was so cold that ice was piled 20 feet high along the Virginia Coast and stayed there until spring! The upper portion of the Chesapeake Bay was frozen allowing people to walk from Annapolis to Kent Island, Maryland. In March, a regiment of the Virginia Infantry marched from Falmouth to Fredericksburg. They walked across ice on the Rappahannock River which had been frozen since the previous November.”
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/winter/DC-Winters.htm
Have a nice time wading through the deep snow on Mt. Baker and be appraised that you probably not even see the glacier that is your focus because of it.
My appraisal seems ever more accurate with each of your tone deaf, brain dead,
puffed-up postings.
I tolerate you here primarily as an object lesson, an example of
clueless denial and ignorance in action. Thanks for ably filling that role, but
my patience has limits.
Don’t overestimate your entertainment value. There is no shortage of
pompous blowhards on the internet.
If you have trouble tolerating me it is because you are afraid to get other opinions regarding basically anything and I remind you of this from Popper:
“The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement” — Karl Popper
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
Dust Bowl
Evidence suggests the jet stream was at least partially responsible for the widespread drought conditions during the 1930s Dust Bowl in the Midwest United States. Normally, the jet stream flows east over the Gulf of Mexico and turns northward pulling up moisture and dumping rain onto the Great Plains. During the Dust Bowl, the jet stream weakened and changed course traveling farther south than normal. This starved the Great Plains and other areas of the Midwest of rainfall, causing extraordinary drought conditions.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream
Now, was that so hard?
A nice, civil, short, succinct comment.
You make a point. You support it. You wait for a reply.
It’s called a conversation.That’s what I encourage here.
I will re-categorize you in the “educable” column, provisionally.
In regard to the jet stream – of course the droughts of past decades have had the same familiar causes that we know of today. Jet streams, la nina, etc.
What is different this year, is that we are also looking at unequivocally rising global temperatures, shrinking arctic ice, melting ice sheets, a cooling stratosphere, rising temps in polar areas, in winter, and at night – all predicted indicators of human caused global climate change.
the metaphor is that climate change raises the floor of the basketball court.
It’s the same game that we know, the same players – but the stats are gradually getting larger, there is more scoring, and more slam dunks – as the floor from which everything is launched gets higher.
looking at this paper now
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/03/13/0810200106.full.pdf