Climate change

[Swordmaster1982]

If we are heading into an ice age when will it start?Will temps get cold again like the 70s back?Im in South Carolina and we havent had any true winters in years n years.Closet one was dec-early feb 2011 but it ended way too soon before it got too warm for that time of year.I keep hearing about volcano Katla.

[ghouck]

We're having record snowfall in several places in Alaska, here in Seward being one of them. Cordova had 10 feet of snowfall in about three weeks, we have easily 4x what we normally have. Add to that in between the snowfall were seriously cold bouts, Moose Pass was around -30 for several weeks straight several times this winter, usually they touch -15 a couple times in the winter. It was -20 here for a couple weeks, then it warmed up to the 20's and snowed 6 inches a day for a week, then dropped right back down. I have friends who talk about not needing a ladder to get on their roof to clean their smokestack, there's even a picture of a moose that simply walked onto someone's roof because the snow was so high.

[claws]

At least we now know where all the snow went.

[JaseSF]

We had a snowstorm yesterday but today it rained most of the day.

[claws]

In some way it frightfully amuses me that our regular normal good old fashioned summer thunderstorms have over the years changed into violent intense 'tropical disasters'. It's like expecting a cyclone any minute.

[indianasmith]

Once you buy into this idea, no matter WHAT the weather does, you blame it on climate change.  The Great Lakes freeze over for the first time in decades? Oops, there goes climate change again!

[Trevor]

In South Africa it's warm in summer and cold in winter. No change here, although it did snow in Pretoria in August 2012 which made me go