BRRRRRRR!: WE'VE JUST FINISHED THE SNOWIEST DECADE EVAH!

WUWT:

the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2. [...]

• Average winter snow extent has increased since the 1990s, by nearly the area of Texas and California combined.
• Three of the four snowiest winters in the Rutgers record occurred during the last decade – the top four winters are (in order) 1978, 2010, 2008, 2003
• The third week of February, 2010 had the second highest weekly extent (52,170,000 m2) out of the 2,229 week record

WUWT COMMENTERS:

[STEVE GODDARD:] this is the snowiest decade since the 1940’s in NYC… It will beat out the 1960’s…February 2001-2010 has the highest average for any decade…The top three February snowstorms came during the decade


... Squidly (17:33:42) : It appears to me, judging by the graph, that the warmest decades had less snow than the cooler ones. For example, the 70’s decade has almost as much snow as this decade, whereas the 90’s (supposedly the most severe of warming) had the least snow. So, when Al Gore says that “more snow is consistent with Gorebull Warming”, he is lying out his posterior, is he not?

... Willis Eschenbach (17:46:17) :

Well, there’s graphs, and there’s graphs. I always like to start out with a graph that shows the actual data, not some kind of reduced anomaly. That puts things in the proper perspective, and allows us to see how big the changes actually are. I used the same data used by Steve Goddard, starting in 1971 to avoid early gaps in the dataset.

Here’s that graph:

As you can see, all that this proves is that there is nothing unusual in the data. As I have argued before, there is nothing to be explained. There is nothing unusual about the temperature data. There is nothing unusual about the snowfall data. As far as I know, there is nothing in any climate data outside natural variations, nothing to require an explanation, whether it is CO2 or anything else.

THAT BEARS REPEATING:

There is nothing unusual about the temperature data. There is nothing unusual about the snowfall data. As far as I know, there is nothing in any climate data outside natural variations, nothing to require an explanation, whether it is CO2 or anything else.

AGAIN:

There is nothing unusual about the temperature data. There is nothing unusual about the snowfall data. As far as I know, there is nothing in any climate data outside natural variations, nothing to require an explanation, whether it is CO2 or anything else.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.