Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sound Politics: Climate Shift On Mt. Rainier?
...you see that most of the years before 1955 were below average, and that most of them after that year were above average. (Not quite like the children in Lake Woebegone, but close.) We can get an even better picture by bracketing the snowfall in those two periods with minima and maxima. And, by now, I hope almost everyone can see that there are at least two distinct periods in the snowfall records, from 1921-1922 to 1943-1944 (and perhaps later), and from 1955-1956 (and perhaps earlier) to the present. Within each period, there appears to be no obvious trend.

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