Long-Term Data Show Strong Climate Shift In NE States, Esp. Last 30 Years

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"The climate in the north-eastern parts of the USA has changed significantly, with those changes accelerating over the last 30 years, according to scientists.

Using long-term data on temperature, precipitation, frost dates, snowfall, bloom dates and other annually measured occurrences, experts from Clean Air: Cool Planet (CAAP) and the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) pinpointed changes to the region's climate in their report, Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast.

"This report is probably the first to present a picture of how dramatic changes are occurring across a region of the US using a broad range of key indicators," executive director of CAAP Adam Markham stated. "When data from all of these natural sources are viewed together, they are remarkably consistent, showing that warming is occurring and that it has been changing the climate in our region for some time."

New evidence for climate change uncovered by the report includes:


A significant decrease in snowfall (up to 60 inches annually)

A decrease of 16 days with snow on the ground over 30 years

Lake ice-out dates earlier by nine days in northern and mountainous regions and 16 days in southern parts of the region

An average advance in spring bloom dates of between four and eight days

Climate researcher from UNH Cameron Wake said that the data also clearly showed an accelerating pace of change over the last 30 years. "The consistency of change across the region in a number of these indicators is particularly important, because this is what has not been shown before," he explained. "This is clearly the canary in the coal mine in terms of climate change for the north-east."

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1. Oh come on, our president says this is not a problem...

... and he is much smarter than 95% of the scientific community.
We here in the U.S. do NOT believe in science.

God help our planet.

(Do I really need to identify this as sarcasm?)

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2. No, not really . . .

Unless you're Michael Crichton in disguise, visiting the hive of the eco-wackos!!!!

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3. No, no...

I can tell the difference between science and science fiction.

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4. Yeah, but who are you going to believe?

Thousands of the world's top climate scientists, or the man who wrote the gripping thriller "Congo", about a clan of super-intelligent killer gorillas??

[etherealtruth]

5. How many dinosaurs...

...have these climatologists you refer to cloned?
I didn't realize what a "crazy" Crichton was 'til I heard him on public radio a while ago.