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(01-03-2014, 05:37 PM)Island Chris Wrote: Yesterday, I walked to the local hardware store to buy a snow shovel and walking back, some geezer was walking down my street the other way and made some crack about Al Gore.

There is a LOT of misunderstanding of what the effects of global warming are. People don't understand that this temperature rise is for the overall average temperature of the earth. They don't understand that adding that energy causes the climate system to become more vigorous, kind of like (but not exactly) turning up the heat on a pot of water causes it to boil. There will be areas that get hotter and/or drier. But there will also be areas that get colder and/or wetter.

I've been re-reading a book on chaos (Chaos by James Gleick) and one of the first people to discover chaos was a meteorologist trying to model weather on a computer.

BTW, I had not heard the term "arctic sea smoke" before so had to look it up. It's what I thought it might be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_smoke

Brian