Village may set N.Y. record for snowfall

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Couldn't agree more, it's deadly cold over here in Canada; makes me wish for actual global warming sometimes!
Actually, it is global warming that will bring about the next Ice Age...

If enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age - in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset - and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.
I'm skeptical. I've been reading a lot of journals and articles from scientists unconvinced by Al Gore's doomsday warning, and their evidence makes a lot of sense to me.
I guess what bothers me the most is Al Gore thinking he is smart enough to predict weather conditions, especially something as cataclysmic as Global Warming. Our meteorologist can't predict the correct weather 24 hrs from now. I have seen their failures all too often. Al Gore is not an intellect; he is a big boob.He is politically savvy, but thats where it begins and ends. Do you remember he said he invented the Internet, but didn't know how to operate a computer. Duh!

LOL

I laughed at the boob part and the internet part.

This reminds me of growing up in Cleveland where the only place we felt superior to was Buffalo, and that's solely because it was Cleveland with three times the snow.

Not to worry about all of the lake-effect snow coming off Lake Ontario. Global warming is going to take care of that for you.

The Great Lakes are fed by surface water, with large reservoir maintenance from the accumulation and melt of ice and snow in the northern clime of the continent. The surface ice and snow that reservoir feed the aquifers has been disappearing at a rapid rate. It does not fall into the ocean like the glacial pack.

The average elevation above sea level of Ontario is 246 ft. and the average depth is 283 feet. As the lake dries up, water will remain is a smaller pools within its deeper parts, 802 feet being the deepest.

Aside from Lake Erie, this is going to happen to Ontario faster than the upper Great Lakes. Water from them will never get through shallow Erie.

So before you hardly know it, happy days will be with you in snow unbound New York.

How soon? Well there is a straw that breaks the camels back. When change in a geo-chemical system nudges across the critical point, bang it precipitates. So drink up, it may be but seconds, minutes, hours, days or years away—but we can always hope that all it is not too late.

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