Man I'm watcing skiing on espn and the usa is doing really bad but i nted
one thing the top two racers from the USA came from stowe
Could that mean something???
too bad they didn't make the second run..
Patrick
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From: CHris Davies <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [SKIVT-L] Winter? or "Definitely Losing It"
> Oh man i sure as hell hope hes right. I heard that global warrming has
been
> happening for thousands of years, anyone else hear about this, i think i
saw
> it on abc news or something. I would take another bad year of snow for
an
> ice age, hell yeah!
> ~CHris
>
> Skip King wrote:
>
> > Jim wrote:
> >
> > > pretty. :-) Rumor has it that we are going to have a very snowy
> > > December that will help but supposedly the rest of the winter is going
> > > to suck. If scientists are correct about what's happening with the
> > > globe in the upcoming years then even eastern areas heavily dependent
> > > on snowmaking may not survive. Can anyone imagine prime mid-winter
> > > conditions being like what's at Killington right now? Scary thought.
> > > Jim
> >
> > This all goes into the FWIW category.... it is a scary thought
> > indeed, but there're other schools of thought regarding some of
> > Jim's points... there are indications that the NAO (North Atlantic
> > Oscillation, for lack of better terms, Atlantic equivalent of the
> > ENSO/La Nina cycle) is going to have a negative tilt this year and
> > may have a negative tilt for a good long while.... these negative tilts
> > are VERY favorable to lotsa snow in the Northeast. (suggest a look
> > at http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1103/ for a deeper
> > understanding -- Dr. D. is pen name of intellicast chief
> > meterorolgist Dr. Joseph D'Aleo.
> >
> > One of my local meteorologist buds, by the way, is just finishing up
> > his doctorate in global climatology.. his thesis, based on extensive
> > study of ice core samples on the Greenland ice sheets, is that
> > we're actually overdue for the start of a mini-ice age. Scratched my
> > head about this four years ago when he told me that we were in a
> > five year period which would signal the changeover... predicted then
> > that winter weather in New England would be wildly variable and
> > pretty frustrating for ski resort operators during that period.
> > Obviously, too soon to tell if he's right or not, but he had that four
> > year thing pretty well nailed... on recent query, he allowed as how if
> > global warming was in fact a result of human activity all it was
> > doing was forestalling the inevitable.
> >
> > FWIW, in a private correspondence regarding last winter's weather,
> > Dr. D'Aleo told me:
> >
> > "In addition, the eastern tropical Pacific was especially slow to
> > cool. It really didn't drop and stay below normal until this spring.
> > Now it is cold. And so is the atmosphere. The global mean 500mb
> > temperatures are near the coldest since satellite measurements
> > began in 1979."
> >
> > It's that last that I find intriguing with regard to global warming
> > theory...
> >
> > Time to go split wood?
> >
> > skip
> >
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