Marc Morano | Email I sent to Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin re: Faster Climate Change Feared

How about two sentences from a scientist mocking speculative predictions of 2100 based on speculative computer models? It is not that hard to achieve a 98 to 2 percent balance ratio. Bit 100 percent one-sided silliness should violate your own internal ethics! Would you report on stock market predictions in the year 2100 without including a skeptical voice?

Perhaps two years ago you could have gotten away with such one-sided reporting, but there are so many scientists to critique these kinds of "studies" that you have no excuse to do these types of articles anymore.

Alleged Sierra Warming: Later snow, earlier melt

How much more snow will fall is anyone's guess. A winter storm just hit Thursday, dumping several feet of snow, to the relief of snow-starved resorts. But in the late arrival of this year's snow season – and increasingly early spring snowmelt from the mountains – scientists and state officials are finding more than the signature of a natural drought. They believe they detect the fingerprint of climate change.
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Not only are warmer temperatures thawing that mountain snow sooner, they are changing the nature of the precipitation as it falls – turning more Sierra snowflakes to sleet, slush and rain. Now 10 percent smaller than a century ago, the Sierra snowpack is expected to retreat dramatically in coming decades, posing major challenges for water managers and the climate-dependent ski industry.
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This fall, temperatures were so toasty around Lake Tahoe that many resorts missed planned Thanksgiving weekend openings...

12/18/08 - Another Sierra Storm To Bring Heavy Snow, Winds

A record low of 11 below zero was reported on Wednesday at South Lake Tahoe that broke the old mark of 10 below set on Dec. 17, 1984.

2005: Sierra snow sets 90-year record

RENO, Nev. - Areas of the Sierra Nevada, famous for paralyzing amounts of snowfall, have been hit with a dumping like they haven't seen in generations, with steep drifts stranding an Amtrak train, knocking out the Reno airport and shutting down major highways across the mountains.

The string of moisture-laden storms has dropped up to 19 feet of snow at elevations above 7,000 feet since Dec. 28 and 61/2 feet at lower elevations in the Reno area. Meteorologists said it was the most snow the Reno-Lake Tahoe area has seen since 1916.

"I've lived here for almost 40 years and I've never seen anything like it," Peter Walenta, 69, said Sunday from his home in Stateline, on the southern end of Lake Tahoe. "This baby just seems to be stretching on forever. Right now I'm looking out the window and it's dumping."

2008: Prime snow forecast for Sierra, Southern California - Los Angeles Times

Mother Nature must be a snowboarding, jib-riding, powder-loving babe because she is cooking up prime snow conditions this weekend for ski resorts throughout Southern California and all the way to Tahoe and Reno.

January already ranks fourth in the last 40 years or so for producing the heaviest snowfall in the Eastern Sierra. And the good news is that the white fluff continues to fall. Most resorts in Southern California and the Eastern Sierra have switched off the snow-making machines to take advantage of the near-record snowfall conditions.

“It’s been a great year,” said Chuck Allen, events director for Mountain High Resort in Wrightwood. “We have plenty of snow to last us clear into April.”