The perils of a shrinking winter

Winter is becoming warmer and shorter, and boy would I like to discuss sea ice cover on the Great Lakes with a couple of nasty climate change deniers right now.   The shortening of the winter season is distinctly at odds with any claims that temperature records for the past 120 years or so have been faked or manipulated, because nature shows us exactly what is happening, if we pay attention.

Here's another take on this subject, from the Los Angeles Times, with a West Coast perspective:


Winter is shrinking, study finds, posing new fire and water risks

"Climate models have predicted the snowpack would diminish earlier in the season and melt more gradually as the planet warms. [Amato] Evan affirmed those projections through an analysis of data from 1982 through 2017.

“There are theoretical models that say as the planet continues to warm, this is what should happen; snow melts earlier in the year, and doesn’t melt as fast as it does in the springtime,” he said. “We went back to the mathematics, and said, that’s actually exactly what we’re seeing.”

And the problem is, seeing it means that it's happening, and quibbling over temperature data is not going to change the FACT that it is happening.