NY Times: "Unusual amounts of snow or lack of snow are all signs of global warming"

Jonathan Rose is chairman of the board of the Garrison Institute, president of Jonathan Rose Companies and board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Earth is warming, which is changing weather patterns and often causing localized weather volatility as opposed to localized warming. Extreme storms, droughts, intense rains, unusual amounts of snow or lack of snow are all signs of global warming. People know the weather is getting less predictable. They call it “weird weather.”

KENNEWICK, Wash. - The Pacific Northwest is not yet suffering greatly from climate change, and it's a leader in producing renewable energy. .... Claudio Stöckle, a Washington State University professor, addressed climate change during a panel discussion, "Harvesting Clean Energy 2020: A View to the Future." He said greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. ... "The climate change picture for this region is really not too bad," Stöckle said. ... "For our region to move a little more south is not a bad thing," he said, speaking figuratively...

A video of Rajendra Pachauri with some startling statements about the recent IPCC scandals. Apparently the Himalayan glacier melting thing is the only error in the IPCC reports. The other issues aren't errors at all. Oh yes, and it's OK to use non-peer reviewed literature in IPCC reports.

...historically, sea level was more than a meter above its present height. This data implies that temperatures were as high as or higher than now, even though the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was much lower.