Arnold and Calif. billionaires NB, USGCRP recommended by Mr. Schwarzenegger not a reliable source, eg Alaska has cooled 2.4F since 2000, record-breaking snow continues to fall in Alaska reaching south to Kenai Peninsula, 2013 a foot above avg. for Anchorage

4/7/13, "Storm expected to drop 9-15 inches of snow on Anchorage," Anchorage Daily News, Lisa Demer

"Just as Anchorage is digging out from Saturday's record snowfall, forecasters are predicting another big storm has arrived.

This storm is expected to deposit 9 to 15  inches of fresh snow, on top of the 6 to 10 inches that accumulated Saturday in Anchorage, according to the National Weather Service....

The 6.2 inches of snowfall measured Saturday at the National Weather Service office on Sand Lake Road topped the prior record of 4.6 inches for April 6, set back in 1949. The Hilltop ski area got an estimated 10 inches, while Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson saw just 4 inches, though that measurement was as of 5:30 p.m. Saturday with snow still falling.
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As of Sunday afternoon, the official Anchorage snowfall this winter measured 84.1 inches, which is more than a foot above average, Ahsenmacher said.

The coming storm is expected to center on Anchorage but reach north as far as Talkeetna and south onto the Kenai Peninsula." via Tom Nelson, via iceagenow.info

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Peer reviewed scientific study finds Alaska cooled 2.4F degrees
between 2000 and Dec. 2012. Also, 1926 was Alaska's warmest year recorded to date:

2012, The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska,” benthamscience.com, G. Wendler, L. Chen and B. Moore.

p. 111, "We looked at the temperature trend of the first decade of the 21st century for the 20 first order stations in Alaska and

found that 19 of the 20 stations showed a cooling trend. In

Fig. (3) we plotted the mean values of these 20 first order

stations and added the line of the best linear fit. The mean

cooling of the average of all stations was 1.3°C (2.4) for the

decade, a large value for a decade."...

 

p. 111, "1926 was the warmest year ever recorded not only in Fairbanks, but also in Sitka (southeastern Alaska) and Barrow (northern Alaska), for which stations the data are available."

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Ed. note: The scientists reported Alaska cooling 1.3 Centigrade. The Alaska Dispatch converted the 1.3C to 2.4F. A rough conversion method from C to F is to multiply the Centigrade figure x1.8.

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Also, Spring 2012 saw record ice growth in the Bering Sea:

12/23/12, “Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age,” Alaska Dispatch, Alex DeMarban

“The 49th state has long been labeled one of the fastest-warming spots on the planet. But that’s so 20th Century. In the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit….The third warmest decade was the 1920s, by the way.…

The nation's icebox is getting even icier. That may not be news to Alaskans coping with another round of 50-below during the coldest winter in two decades, or to the mariners locked out of the Bering Sea this spring by record ice growth."...

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Arnold says you should believe in, be terrified, and press legislators
for "action" based on findings of USGCRP. Unfortunately, USGCRP is not a reliable source of information. In one glaring and costly example:. 

USGCRP not only ignored ongoing cooling in Alaska, it predicted even more warming--the opposite of what has happened and is continuing to happen:

"Overview: Alaska"

"Scenarios of Future Climate" subhead
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"Models project that rapid Arctic warming will continue."

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4/08/13, "Schwarzenegger: California's silent disaster," LA Times editorial by Arnold Schwarzenegger

 








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