[ale] unusual global warming experiment

[William Fragakis]

That was fun(ny).

For more laughs, decided to look up what Anthony Nunan, the Mitsubish
oil trader who supposedly predicted the end of civilization (winter
chaos -> worldwide famine, etc.), actually said:

"“The weather is cold everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere with Europe
getting walloped and China as well,” said Anthony Nunan, an assistant
general manager for risk management at Mitsubishi Corp. in Tokyo.
“Anything that’s positive for heating oil and middle distillate demand
has to be a positive for crude oil. The inventories have basically come
off their peaks in the last few weeks.”"

I'm sure he's getting a big kick out of googling his own name and seeing
it attached to oddball comments all over the blogosphere.

wf

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:14 -0500, Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> The unusual amount of snow this year isn't being caused by global
> warming.  It is a result of experiments that we conducted in Norway
> which have punched a hole in the thermosphere.
> 
> There is a good writeup about it in Pakistan Daily:
> http://tinyurl.com/y9u4lru
> 
> -Rev. Johnny Healey
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> > Snowfall is not an indicator of temperatures, necessarily. Rather it's a
> > better indicator of the jet stream, ocean temperatures and currents
> > (think, el Nino). Most of the tundra of Alaska and Canada is actually
> > desert, it receives very little precipitation. However, with less ice in
> > the Arctic waters, more can evaporate causing more snow. As residents of
> > the Midwest can tell you, the amount of snow on your front door tells
> > you more about the prevailing wind and where you live in relation to the
> > Great Lakes than the temperature outside.
> >
> > Much of the snow, iirc, in the Eastern US is caused by el Nino and a
> > much stronger southerly jet stream which is carrying weather systems
> > further south than usual. Much of the snow on the ground came from
> > warmer Pacific waters and the Gulf of Mexico. And, as I mentioned
> > before, snow in your neighborhood, doesn't mean snow in places it
> > usually occurs, like Vancouver.
> >
> > "
> > Kirk Mellish's Weather
> > Commentary
> >
> >
> > El Nino powered jet stream puts weather in the news"
> >
> > http://wsbradio.com/blogs/kirk_mellishs_weather_commentary/2010/01/el-nino-powered-jet-stream-put.html
> >
> > regards,
> > William
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 05:12 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >> On Wed February 10 2010, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >> > Anyway all of these show 2009 globally as cooler than most of the last 10
> >> > years.
> >>
> >> 10 years? the DC area just set a record snowfall of 65 inches! broke a record
> >> from the 1800's!! New York broke a record older than 10 years. It seems like
> >> all I've heard so far this winter is " 10 degrees below normal"... it's DAMN
> >> cold out there!!
> >>
> >
> >
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