weatherpruf

As one trained in the social sciences I find it very sad, because science is not liberal or conservative. Ecological issues should not be a matter of wedge issue politics, it's bad for all of us.

Thank you. Facts, in the words of John Adams, are stubborn things. You're at Fordham IIRC?

Denial is strongly linked to a tribal identity with a particular segment peculiar to the United States. There is no point in arguing with these folks. It is like trying to convince someone to convert to another religion.

Without us it does not happen so rapidly. Which means we have the ability to change it. But some people find that inconvenient.

You can make a lot more money spewing drivel if you take it from the energy cartel, way more than the paltry stipends real, peer reviewed scientists get. The Pentagon and the insurance industry sure don't think its a hoax, and those are some mighty serious people. The facts are true whether you believe them or not. If the doctor says you have a disease, you don't have to believe it. But it will not change the diagnosis.

Sorry, but I do not argue about established facts.

No, the writer says they can't be sure without more study. And that's the case. But I think we all suspect climate change has a lot to do with it. It would have been nice for the reporter to ask a few climatologists to weigh in. But they probably would have said the same thing, we can't know for sure etc. Still, you quote the experts....that's what I learned in journalism.

It was far from epic in my region.....

How about standing on a party boat offshore with frozen snot on your lip? With a stiff wind and being tossed up and down? Would that count?

And just west across the Hudson we struggled to hit 8, I think we had 6 locally.

Remember a documentary about a guy who got stuck there during a snowstorm years ago. Dude starved to death in his van. Apparently some roads get closed in the winter there. It was really sad, the guy wrote letters of farewell to everyone.

Not much to disagree with there, TBH.

After doing a little research, I found AZ fishing does leave something to be desired. Not bad, but not a retired angler's paradise either.

I think he means south of Flagstaff? Too lazy to check.

Yeah but they get more regular 8-10 events than we typically see. You really need to be prepared for snow in those regions.

Not interested in being that far from the coast. I like my saltwater fishing too. So that leaves the west coast, and that ain't cheap. So it's the south. But it seems like a nice place, I've looked at it before.

Probably not affordable for a retired public employee and a wife with no pension and minimal 401k savings

NYC did manage a Feb record though....

Ice on the wings, the ultimate disaster in DC in 1982...

All the storms missed my area to some extent that year, but even the "misses" left me with 8-12...with the exception of that one.

2/6/10...the ultimate heartbreaker. At least those others delivered a decent snow if not an all out crush job. I had a 2 inch mini blizzard that day, complete with mini drifts of 4 -5 inches.

Well you shoulda been here for 2/6/10, when you only had to go 10 miles down the NJ turnpike to see a foot, and more the further south you went....Boxing Day was also a mostly coastal event; 10 miles or so from the coast there was a huge cutoff.

A late friend had a place where he called it the "little" Adirondacks, which still got a ton of snow compared to here. He actually lived there but worked here in NJ, living in a trailer court in NJ. I get the feeling NJ is a place to work but live somewhere else....definitely retire somewhere else. For me, that will be someplace I can fish all year. Figure I can live without the snow, even though I enjoy the storms. Thought about going further north at one point, decided, ME in particular, just didn't offer enough milder weather. I don't like the heat either though. So looking at places like NC, SC, northern GA....but not FL. Or, maybe not....

It is also a place that attracts more than its share of those looking to get away from the rest of the world, and boy do they.....and Stephen King is not considered to be in the company of those you mentioned, even he wouldn't put himself there. His writing was once described as the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. He would not argue with that: " If you wrote something and someone sent you a check, and it didn't bounce, I consider you talented."-Stephen King. By the way, he does love ME and once told students at a graduation there not to bother to even leave, because nothing else compares. I'd agree with him, in July and August....stunningly beautiful.

we went from 1983-1996 without getting more than a foot....( March 93 topped out around 10 of snow-sleet-zr ) so don't expect a HECS every few years. It is far more likely that we won't see one any time soon. But, it would be cool if we did....