Gov. Andrew Cuomo, told reporters he spent a «frightening» night monitoring storm devastation in lower Manhattan at a briefing addressing short term repair efforts and long
term weather concerns.
Monday's drop, the largest one - day percentage fall since August 2007, presages a change in focus from near -
term weather concerns to demand in the spring.
Not exact matches
He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of
weather, is not
concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the
term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).
I am a little
concerned about this, in the sense that we are still at a point where the natural fluctuations of climate are still large — at least, the natural fluctuations of
weather compared to long -
term climate change....
As far as
weather (and hence climate) predictions are
concerned, it is difficult to achieve better results than the persistence prediction in the short
term
Global warming was once an uncommon
term used by a few scientists who were growing
concerned over the effects of decades of pollution on long -
term weather patterns.
Concerning space
weather, future studies should focus on analysis of the long - lasting and very deep solar cycle minimum and related very low level of geomagnetic activity in order to estimate its influence on long -
term trends in the ionosphere, particularly on future trends, as we can expect weak solar cycles in the coming decades.
I was told that short -
term weather patterns (a few cold winters) were proving to be the «last nail in the coffin» and the «last stake through the heart» of
concern about AGW.