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Day 16 without a drop if rain here. Local corn crops are drying up.

It started I think in 2005. 2005 was an extreme warm September at least where I was in NY

My personal opinion is that there are forces at work from both sides of the coin. AGW doing it's thing on warming (3.7 w/m² for doubling of CO2) but the "sun" and "GSM" doing it's thing on trying to cool the planet (decrease TSI (very minor), cosmic rays and the relationship to cloud cover and rain and increased volcanic activity). Question is though, by how much? If there was no AGW warming at all, what would the average global temperature be at this point in time? On the flip side, whatever the issue is, we still have to shy away from fossil fuels. For the simple reasons of pollution and dependency. Even if AWG did not exist, fossil fuels will run out and that in itself would be catastrophic if we do not start our process of going to renewable energy sources now.

Greenland was very close to be entirely above freezing - wonder if that's ever happened before (in modern times)

I guess I'll consider myself lucky for the 6" in December

crazy-

I just moved down here from Suffolk County. I was there for the 11/15 event and am most prepared with all of the big snows NY has received over the past 10 years.

Professor Valentina Zharkova recently gave a presentation and suggested at the worst of the GSM, the forcing loss could be as low as - 8.0 W/m2.

December 1989 was just so phenomenally cold- I always think about how cold December 2010 was- but then I go look back at these records from 12/1989 GHCND_USW00004781_1989-12-1.pdf

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