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Blizzards In Rocky Mountains: History Of El Ninos Shows Increasing Cooling Since Medieval Warm Period

may 12 2014 snow storms unusual cold hammer western US

Snow, severe storms barge into West, central USA as winter continues to hold an iron grip on huge parts of the North America continent.  Here, where I live, it finally warmed up some and all the trees that normally leaf out one after the other are doing it very swiftly, simultaneously due to the very delayed spring. And the cold fronts push warm air and concentrate this right next to the front so we see high winds and  the Texas panhandle wildfire 75% contained due to dry grass left over from last fall.  It is snowing in the Rockies, big time.

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Brazil And Indonesia Rainforest Destruction Shoots Upwards, La Nina Cold Continues

La Nina cold Pacific Ocean

Something is happening in the Pacific Ocean: the cold water La Nina portion is actually colder, not warmer.  Climatologists are predicting an el Nino event but I think history says otherwise.  There are many mega trends going on that are an interaction of human behavior, the sun’s shifting output of energy, volcanic activity or inactivity, earthquakes in the ocean’s floor such as the three 9.0+ quakes off of Japan, Chile and Indonesia and salinity of the oceans going through various cycles where salt content increases or falls.  All of this creates difficult to interpret weather conditions which cause local shifts that seem quite large close up but when viewed through the lens of history, are actually rather common.

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