re: #18 oaktree

I’m already hearing “Global Warming my ass” from “friends” up here in the northeast about the current and projected snowfall. Half the ignorance is willful - don’t want to disturb cherished notions of who or what is right and wrong.

With an increase in global atmospheric temperature will come an increase in precipitation at the higher latitutdes.

As I’ve said before, snow is “precipitation”.

It snows in the summer at high enough latitudes (in the mountains). Snow is simply solid water, and the high clouds one can see occasionally are usually composed of ice crystals, no matter what the season. Most people don’t realize that temperature drops rapidly with elevation in the atmosphere, unless they happen to be pilots and experience the temperature difference at altitudes regularly.