Colorado snowpack is significantly below average so far

LLIB wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: Typical whistling-past-the-graveyard denial from those that drink from the trough of the fossil-fuel-energy spin machine.

But when we get an excess of moisture or it's colder than usual, it means nothing. Sorry but you can't have it both ways...besides, this is Colorado and the climate changes more than anywhere in the US.

In a world plagued by gradual warming, there will still be cold months—even ones with record cold temperatures, although they'll be far less frequent than they are now, a new study suggests.

December 2010 was the coldest December in northwestern Europe for more than a century. Although such cold periods may seem incompatible with the notion of global warming, they're not, says Jouni Räisänen, a climate scientist at the University of Helsinki. They're just a matter of statistics.

Precipitation has increased an average of about 5 percent over the past 50 years. Projections of future precipitation generally indicate that northern areas will become wetter, and southern areas, particularly in the West, will become drier.

In western North America, snowpack has declined in recent decades, and further losses are projected through the 21st century. Here, we evaluate the uniqueness of recent declines using snowpack reconstructions from 66 tree-ring chronologies in key runoff-generating areas of the Colorado, Columbia, and Missouri River drainages. Over the past millennium, late 20th century snowpack reductions are almost unprecedented in magnitude across the northern Rocky Mountains and in their north-south synchrony across the cordillera. Both the snowpack declines and their synchrony result from unparalleled springtime warming that is due to positive reinforcement of the anthropogenic warming by decadal variability.