Modified Gore effect strikes again: As infamous warmists began a Climate Science Seminar in Minnesota last Friday, a local headline was "14'' of snow? Already? That's cold"

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Climate Science Seminar. St. Paul's Science Museum hosted a Climate Science Seminar Friday evening and Saturday, hosting local TV and radio meteorologists from around the Upper Midwest.
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Dr. Ben Santer (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)
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* no such thing as "settled science" or "perfect science". The science is continually evolving as new data comes in and new hypotheses are formed, tested, validated or discarded.
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Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota
Important Drivers With Climate Change:
1). Natural variability.
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"The persistence and amplitude of the warming signal during winter is stronger in Minnesota."
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* longer growing and construction season.
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* fewer adverse-weather days.
Temperature signal during the summer is modest in Minnesota.
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Peter Snyder, University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water and Climate:
Minnesota: 3rd fastest-warming state in the USA (Climate Central)
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* 20% reduction in snowfall by 2100 (more rain and mixed precipitation during winter months).
* current average winter snowfall at MSP: 55" forecast to be one foot less by 2100.
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Jeff Masters, Founder, Weather Underground:
Consensus on sea level rise by 2100: around 1 meter, or 3 feet.
Hurricane damage is doubling every 20 years.
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John Abraham. University of St. Thomas:
...10 of the 11 warmest years on record, worldwide, observed since 1998.
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Paul Douglas. Co-Founder, Senior Meteorologist at Media Logic Group.
Twin Cities: 16 months/row of warmer than average temperatures. Odds of flipping 20 consecutive "heads" is roughly 1 in 1 million.

October 5, 2012: 14'' of snow? Already? That's cold | StarTribune.com

An early-season storm dumped more than a foot of snow on northwestern Minnesota on Thursday, closing schools, limiting travel, canceling a homecoming parade and snuffing out the danger from wildfires that had destroyed 11 houses in Karlstad two days earlier.