Saturday, January 3, 2015

HERE ARE THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR


If anything is more predictable than the weather in California, it's Watts annual attempt to equate winter's first cold day with a turnaround in  anthropogenic temperature forcing.

The Cisco weatherman's latest effort extrapolates a snow squall in Palermo into a generation-long "Mini Ice Age" extending out to 2036 :

There is more to life than Groundhog Day in Punxatawny,  and Frederico Fellini didn't dream what follows. At age 8 he witnessed the  escape of  the Count of Rimini's peacock into the snow as a wind that made Caesar shivver, the Bora, blew down the spine of Italy yet again :