Washington: Early shot of winter

Forecasters say the freezing level will drop to 3,000 feet by Monday night, leaving snow on Stevens, White, Washington and Snoqualmie passes with accumulations of 6 to 12 inches and up to 18 inches in places.

Snow, though, is now the main concern as the roads become slick and most drivers are out of practice navigating winter like conditions.
As driver’s deal with the headaches, others are welcoming the early shot of winter.

Natural Global Warming - Naysayers Deny The Obvious - Auburn Journal

There are those who claim that human beings are causing Global Warming. They base this on self-perpetuated non-objective data that ignores the most obvious fact: Global Temperatures have risen/fallen many times before. Global Warming and cooling are as natural as the rising and falling tides.

They are standing at a point in time that has happened before, and claiming that for the first time, the changes that are expected, are due to a new condition.

The last time the globe warmed this much, humans were virtually non-existent, and yet the globe warmed 3c more than it is today.

Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude

Europe’s southern-most skeletal remains of Mammuthus primigenius were unearthed in a moor on the 37°N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for mammoths, and for the characteristically dry and cold climate that prevailed during the ice ages in the north of Eurasia.

Kevin Grandia | Solar Bill of Rights

All we seek is the freedom to compete, and all consumers want is the freedom to choose their energy source. Instead, the full promise of solar power is being restrained by the tyranny of policies that protect our competitors, subsidize wealthy polluters and disadvantage green entrepreneurs.

Flashback: New York Offers 50% Solar Subsidy, as East Coast Pulls Ahead in PV Growth | SolveClimate.com

This week, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the country's largest state-owned utility, unveiled a China-like solar incentive for its customers: a 50 percent subsidy for new solar power projects.

Flashback: Wind Power Currently $0.06 Per KiloWatt Hour, Southern California Solar Power At $0.21 To $0.22/kWh

Since natural gas prices are so low - and to put these numbers in comparison, natural gas prices right this moment are about $2.96 in MMBtu. At $2.96 in MMBtu, that electricity - if that was the price, I don't believe that's going to be the price moving forward for natural gas forever - but if you believe that was the price forever, then alternative energy technologies have got to get down to like $0.03 a kilowatt in order to be economic. And that's a tall, tall order.... So basically on a present-value basis, you look at all the costs that go into it, and you put all the kilowatt hours discounted in the denominator, and you get that cents-per-kilowatt-hour cost. So for wind, it's about $0.06 to $0.09 without subsidy. So if natural gas prices were to double or more than double, then you can see where wind becomes more competitive. Solar right now, I think the best solar without any kind of subsidies, let's say the best solar would be in a great sun region like Southern California. And you are looking at probably $0.21, $0.22 a kilowatt hour - somewhere in there.