It’s always something with these pseudo-religionists
Climate Change Could Bring More Lake-Effect Snow – For a Few Decades
Lake-effect snow occurs every winter downwind of the Great Lakes and several other large bodies of water, as long as the necessary conditions are met: cold air crossing over a relatively warmer lake surface, which picks up moisture to condense into clouds and dumps heavy snow downwind of the lakes. But as the Earth’s climate changes, how much longer will these ingredients continue to come together? (snip)
If our planet’s temperatures are getting warmer, surely that must mean there will be less lake-effect snow in the future. If the air isn’t cold, how are we going to get lake-effect snow to form?
Actually, it’s the opposite, according to a recent study by NOAA’s Tom Di Liberto. The study suggests there will actually be more lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes snowbelts, at least for a while.
Lake-effect snow is directly related to how warm and ice-free the lakes are, as well as the difference between the lake temperatures and the temperature of the air blowing over them.
Ok.
There is one hiccup in the hypothesis of a warmer climate leading to increased lake-effect snow, said Di Liberto: “The cold air that flows over the lakes will also be getting warmer over time, which would favor less lake-effect snow. It’s like an epic game of climate change tug-of-war.”
So, eventual doom for lake effect snows, which, apparently, will increase up till 2050 (they love that year), and then fall off from climate change doom.
Regardless, Di Liberto said recent research has suggested lake-effect snow totals along Lake Superior and Lake Michigan have increased from 1927 to 2007. Previous research found increases for the entire Great Lakes region between 1931 and 2001.
Have you ever noticed that their “science” always supports their notions, and always ends in doom? And that mankind is always to blame?
