Record Cold Sweeps Nation After Release of IPCC’s Global Warming Report

Photo of Noel Sheppard.

The multitudes of anthropogenic global warming skeptics around the country couldn’t have scripted this any better.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fourth Assessment Report Friday presaging doom and gloom as a result of global warming, a cold snap gripped much of the country promising all-time low April temperatures in many cities across the fruited plain.

You really can’t make this stuff up!

As reported by AccuWeather:

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A brutally cold surge of arctic air into the eastern half of the United States will easily bring record-low temperatures on Easter morning and could cause significant losses in some of the nation's most prolific agricultural areas.

High pressure building toward the Southeast will bring calm winds and clear skies, which combined with the very cold air mass in place, will allow temperatures in many cities to challenge the coldest lows ever reached during the month of April. The cold will severely tax peach orchards across Georgia, and strawberry orchards throughout the Southeast. Bitter cold will also be felt throughout the wheat-growing areas of the Midwest and central Plains.

Timing is everything, wouldn’t you agree? The article continued (emphasis added):

The springtime arctic outbreak will also allow for snow in areas that very rarely see wintry precipitation this late in the year. On Saturday morning, snow mixed with rain in much of North Carolina, and flurries were observed as far south as Atlanta. The system that caused this rare April snowfall will scrape the Northeast coast with some additional snow on Saturday. Moderate snowfall also fell in Washington, D.C. early Saturday morning. The nation's capital has not received accumulating snow in April since 2001.

How the media cover this is anybody’s guess. However, as temperatures in some areas will be 20 degrees colder than average, it is quite safe to say this will get far less attention than if they were 20 degrees warmer.

Anyone care to guess why? 

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


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Record Cold

I wouldn't mind the global warming if only it weren't so danged cold!

When will these folks learn -

When will these folks learn - whenever they make an announcment of GW, it gets cold - shut-up and maybe we can hae a conversation, instead of haring all of your bad sermons.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

I've already heard. This is c

I've already heard. This is caused by global warming. They've convinced me.

I've moved my beer from the fridg to the oven.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

LMAOcareful the cans don't bu

LMAO

careful the cans don't burst when your beer freezes

If I want ice cubes for my sc

If I want ice cubes for my scotch? Do I set the oven on broil?

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

Record cold

Last night, here in Atlanta,GA we broke the record low of 29 degrees that was set in 1982(the closing era of "Global Cooling"). We also had snow flurries all around the area....so I am now convinced of GW. We're supposed to break the record cold temperature tonight as well. Go figure....

"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money...." MARGARET THATCHER

you guys sound ridiculous, 

you guys sound ridiculous,  

Its cold outside, so that proves global "warming" is a lie?

Come on, the real effects of trapping green house gases, and the resulting melting of the polar ice caps are unknown.  There is huge disagreement (among those who think its actually happening) over what the real effects will be, but they all agree that global "warming" will result in dramatic shifts in global climate.

What kind of shifts in climate?

Maybe things like temperatures 20+ below average and snowing in Crawford Texas on Easter.

Just a thought. 

Right, and "global warming" c

Right, and "global warming" causes colder temperatures...LMAO!!!!

"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money...." MARGARET THATCHER

follow the science CO2 is a l

follow the science CO2 is a lagging indicator of warming, sun cycles are a leading indicator of warming (think now do causes come before or after effects) check the history of warming and cooling cycles over BILLIONS of years, when i was 5 years old i knew about the saber-toothed tigers and wooly mamoths during the great ice age.  it can't all be this new to you.  and what of the warming on Mars?  (2 rovers couldn't have done that much they're solar powered)  the connection of the dots is the sun

So again bb what would you have us do about the sun cycles?

Bling, what makes you think t

Bling, what makes you think the polar ice caps are melting?  Radar images of the antarctic ice cap shows it growing.  Glaciologists have estimated the mass of the new ice as several gigatons.  So, bling, explain to me how, if global temperatures are warming, causing the polar ice caps (plural) to melt, the south polar ice cap is growing?  Is there an east or west pole that has melting ice caps?

Besides, bling, if the "news" casters can claim a tornado in early march is a sign of global warming, and get no criticism from you, why would not a multi-state area of record low temps late in the season be as valid a claim as proof that global warming is a hoax?

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Then, bling, you can explain

Then, bling, you can explain the following, if you can set down the cross of guilt long enough to do so:

1) If the Kyoto Protocol is designed to solve GLOBAL warming, why are China, Mexico, and India exempt?

2) Why is tropical deforestation not addressed anywhere in the Kyoto Protocol?

3) Exit Glacier in Seward, AK has been melting since 1780. What was causing it to melt then?

4) Why was last year's hurricane season so damn quiet?

5) Why was I chipping ice off of my truck this past winter, in a city (San Antonio) where ice storms are extremely rare?

6) Why was it, that for Christmas 2004, snow fell south and east of said city, where snow rarely falls?

7) Why was the world's highest temperature set in 1922?

8) Why did it snow in Lisbon and New Delhi in the winter of 2005-2006?  Why did it snow in Johannesburg in July 2006?

I realize that you absolutely MUST see the world's largest and most advanced economy completely destroyed in order to assuage the guilt you feel for living in it, but why not humor me and answer those questions? 

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

Speaking of sounding ridiculous

Bling, of course a cold snap doesn't disprove global warming, and I'm certain no one here would claim that it does.  But there has been an amazing correlation between spikes in GW hype and arctic blasts over the last year.  Anyone who isn't a true GW warming believer can see the humor in that.

Doesn't it make you wonder just a bit how global warming can explain every bit of unusual weather going on?  It's the all purpose answer to every weather mystery.  Global warming causes heat, it causes cold, it causes storms, it causes droughts...  How can that possibly be?

Stories like this are so ig

Stories like this are so ignorant. If every time we point to an unusual few cold days as a sign that global warming is a lie, what's to keep a global warming activist from pointing to an unusually warm day or two as proof of global warming? Pointing to single days cheapens the real debate over global warming... although it does make the issue more accessible to moonbat types who like to argue issues without real facts.

A few ignorant stories is oft

A few ignorant stories is often what the ignorant need. I say keep  'em coming!

Blogonator

B,

Actually, the ignorance on display here appears to be your own, or have you forgotten that just three months ago when there was unseasonably warm weather on the East Coast, the media did indeed use it to further the global warming myth?

Well, since you have conveniently forgotten, let me clue you in:

http://newsbusters.org/node/9977

http://newsbusters.org/node/9990

http://newsbusters.org/node/10045

Who you calling ignorant, bub?!? Furthermore, please show me in this piece where I asserted that this cold snap proves that global warming doesn't exist? Please? Pretty please? With Al Gore on top?    ns

Boy you're on the wheel tonig

Boy you're on the wheel tonight! I wasn't even replying to you in that post. If snarky cynicism and misdirection are your coin in trade, then deal with someone calling you out. I would expect a more clever answer, at least.

Mobius

Mobius,

Once again, are you having vision issues this evening? That reply wasn't to you. Does your name begin with a "B"?   ns

My mistake and apology. The l

My mistake and apology. The latency and thread structure here can do that. Which B are you referring to?

Mobius

Mobius,

I must say I find it quite hysterical and deliciously ironic that you are belittling my intellect as you have difficulties following this thread and can't determine who the "B" stands for in my comment.

Let me suggest that you wind your way up to the comment by Blogonator -- that's with a "B" by the way -- that you responded to before I had a chance.  ns 

Wouldn't  'B' mean the answe

Wouldn't  'B' mean the answer is to blogonator?  touchy

but i do agree that when the MSM does it's not proof and when we do it it's not proof,  just sometimes funny 

Nice slapdown Mobius

Nice slapdown Mobius, of yourself.

LMAO

..and let me add that no one

..and let me add that no one should take a single or abbreviated set of data points to make a projection. You are doing the same thing the media does, as you point out: using singularities to infer a trend. And it humors your audience. Is that why you do that, Noel? To keep an audience?

Mobius

Mobius,

Please show me, with quotes from this piece, where I inferred that this cold snap disproves global warming exists?

As I asked Blogonator -- which begins with a "B" by the way -- please? Pretty please? With Al Gore on top?  ns

Noel- good site you got here,

Noel- good site you got here, servers are slowish but there are some good contributors. Have a great weekend.

Mobius

Mobius,

Slowish is putting it mildly. We're working on it.

Not knowing your religious affiliation, I'll cover both bases and wish you a Happy Easter, and a Happy Passover.   ns

Please allow me to translate, Noel

Ha!  Please allow me to translate, Noel. 

"You pointed out that I embarrassed myself and I'm outta here!"  -Mobius

Noel, don't be a dick. You

Noel, don't be a dick. Your story connected the recent release of the global warming report and the fact that we're having a cold spell. Those two things are UNRELATED, so why put them in the same story? Oh yeah, because the MSM does it all the time? That's the excuse of a child. We're supposed to be better than the msm, yet so often on this site I see stories like yours that stoop to their level to make a point. I think you do it because you like posting fresh material that will generate lots of posts and discussion. So, is that what it means to combat lib bias?

You don't get it, blogonator

You don't get it, do you blogonator?  As I just said, no one thinks this disproves Global Warming.  We're just laughing at it.  A lot of us think that if global warming is happening at all, it's not happening because of man.  Many thousands of words have been written on this site explaining our side of the argument.  The point of NS's post is not debate, it's humor.

You need to lighten up a bit.

The GW Religion

Sounds like someone is extremely angry that his religious beliefs have been questioned!  We CANNOT have that here!!!

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

Blogonator

B,

"...don't be a dick"? Is this what you call reasoned debate?

I quite forgot why I began ignoring you about a year ago. Thank you for reminding me. Adieu.   ns

Ronald Reagan could never be

Ronald Reagan could never be a Democrat.  He never thought the way BillAdkins does:

1) Punish and steal from anyone who is deemed a producer.

2) Make America as powerless a Nanny State as possible.

Also, Reagan saw an America of rugged individualists, not a nation of 300 million adult infants crying to the government "FEED ME!  FEED ME!  FEED ME!" the way BillAdkins so desperately wants it to be.

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

Shame

Stop being so ashamed of your political philosophy.  If you didn't believe any of that, you would advocate the policies of the Right.  Yet you do not. 

But ultimately, the cure for that is for you to be honest and tell people what you believe should be done instead of spewing tar-black vomit everywhere. 

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

This site used to be good a

This site used to be good a year ago. The stories have become so petty and less and less about real issues. Of course you're not likely to agree, given your investment into producing content for this site.

If you hate this site so much

If you hate this site so much, why are you here then?

And what "real issues"?  How much more we need to steal from the successful?  How Fox News MUST be SHUT UP under any and all circumstances? 

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

no sense of humor, blogonator

blogonator, if anyone is showing themselves to be a "dick" it's you.   If you can't argue logically, then say so.  No reason to go to the gratuitous insults.

Clearly, you're unable to laugh at the irony that we are ONCE AGAIN experiencing widespread cold at the same time a major announcement is being made by someone in  the Global Warmist community.

You also are apparently unable to laugh at the media which recently bemoaned a warm period as GW "proof", while everyone knows they will not look at the opposite side regarding this cold snap. 

blog, If NB'ers has become

blog, If NB'ers has become so much less than it used to be, maybe you should just leave. That would make for an immediate improvement.


Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!

I think it's the kooky democrats becoming unhinged.

I think it's the kooky democrats becoming unhinged. If all the dems do is make public jackasses of themselves, how serious can this site be ? The msm has become so absolutely left wing biased, it's impossible to have a decent lead thread. They're all out there, out of their lib water closet, and blabbering like unhinged moonbats.

 Hence this site appears to be less serious. If you're pegging off unhinged moonbats, how serious and intellectually challenging can it be ?

 Balboa has almost given up completely the :" What is this doing here, this isn't bias" whines, because it's so outrageous anymore not even he can attempt a denial with a straight post face.

The attack of the triffids

Mob  - you misundestood a post by Noel--now you are going over the edge with it. It was a misunderstanding, let it die!

Where ’s the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land?

Sir Walter Scott

Let's not forget that warm sp

Let's not forget that warm spell in January. And I have heard that this "cold" spell is caused by AGW.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

Are you paying attention?

"...what's to keep a global warming activist from pointing to an unusually warm day or two as proof of global warming? "

Blogonator, isn't that exactly what they are already doing?

NK

NK,

Yeah, like every time the weather is warmer than average for more than one day!!!  Yet, we can have weeks of colder than average temps, and it will barely receive mention.   :-)   ns

The windy city

I listened to the Minnesota Twins radio broadcast from Chicago.  One play by play guy was wrapped in a blanket, and the other found a space heater to warm up.  Meanwhile, Cleveland and Seattle were snowed out for the second straight day.

NK

NK,

I was looking at the forecast in the upper mid-West, and it looks like this cold lasts through at least Tuesday with temps 20 degrees below normal. This could end up being quite a crop disaster. Can't you hear the media blaming the extreme temperatures on global warming?  ns

Noel, EVERYTHING - including

Noel, EVERYTHING - including the Astros starting out 0-4 - can be blamed on global warming. 

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

Unsane

Uns,

My tax bill, too!!!   :-)   ns

Midwest cold snap

I thoroughly expect someone to blame the cold on global warming.  It's unusual for us, but not unheard of.  And it's early to be worried about the crops.  They've developed a lot of varieties of corn and soybeans, some of which have shorter growing seasons.  The farmers might get a late start, but chances are they'll be OK.

 

 

Gee, Noel, you managed to scr

Gee, Noel, you managed to scrape together some very convincing scientific-type data points there. I'd like to add that my furnace went out last night and my basement was colder than usual. Can you put that in your graph?

Mobius

Mobius,

Graph? Can you show me a graph in this piece? I think you're seeing things.

Did your electricity go out with your furnace last night, or is the alcohol starting to kick in on a Saturday evening?  :-)   ns

Yes, Noel, the wine is factor

Yes, Noel, the wine is factored into the rhetorical graph.

Mobius

Mobius,

:-)  Well, okay then.  :-)  

Are we talking good wine, or swill? It might become important later.  :-)   ns

Maybe I can stick around a bi

Maybe I can stick around a bit. I prefer dry Aussie whites or Chileans- lots to choose from. If you're into beer, try to find Bitburger- they just started ramping up imports and it's cheap but really good.

Mobius

M,

I've had Bitburger. Nice German lager I believe. A little sour if I recall, but refreshing. At this point, my favorite in bottle and on tap is Pilsener Urquell. Extremely consistent from one twelve-pack to the next. That's actually one of the problems I'm having with Becks and Heineken for example. Sometimes, for whatever reason, they can have a metallic taste. Know what I mean?

I've had some Aussie whites, but I'm not sure about Chileans. Of course, as I live in Northern California. I'm a bit chauvinistic about wines from Napa and Sonoma. As you might imagine, we get a nice selection. For instance, have you ever had any Chards from the Carneros region?  ns

vineyards in Manchester you s

vineyards in Manchester you say?  (during the midievil warming there were vinesyards in central Great Briton)

ur all looking at this from

ur all looking at this from the wrong angle. global warming kept temperatures from plunging more than they currently are. we should also be thanking al gore and various actors for buying carbon offsets. if they hadnt paid some guys to plant a few trees to offset their private jet furnished trips across country, it would be "real, real cold" instead of the "real cold" that were experiencing now.

We're well past the "tipping point"

"The party that raises taxes will pay dearly in the next election"?   Statistics and history show just the opposite.   48% of adults of working age adults pay no federal income tax (excluding FICA which the government assures us is not a tax but actually savings going into a secure trust fund for our old age).  Also, over 70% receive some type of regular government check.  It may be actual welfare, "earned income credit" or as a government employee (teacher, IRS agent, military, etc.).   Whether someone earns their check or not and whether the goods or services they provide are needed by the electorate, everyone who receives a government check has a stake in the government being able to continue to pay those checks and, they hope, increase the amounts in the future.  It all adds up to the fact that we are WAY past the "tipping point" on taxes.   That's the "tipping point" where more people (voters) benefit than are hurt by a tax increase. 
Things have changed drastically (for the worse) since Mondale sank his 1984 presidential campaign promising to raise taxes.  Today, the politician who proposes the LARGEST "revenue enhancement" and promises to spread those "enhancements" around to as many voters as possible is the winner, not the loser.
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At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior:
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
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You've probably read this many times in low-tax/flat-tax fundraiser letters.  These words finally found traction when George Bush used them in a speech a few years ago.  Since then, the left hasn't attacked the message as its inherent truth makes it irrefutable but, instead, that Tyler didn't exist, someone else said it, Tyler was actually "Taylor" and on and on.   As if that makes any difference.  Even if it was written as a high school term paper in 1932, it is absolute true that has been proven over and over again in EVERY great democratic or even partially free civilization that has come and GONE.   Emphasis on the GONE.  Ours has now survived longer than the quoted 200-year average.  We are now on borrowed time.  
If our many enemies outside our borders and those amongst us don't destroy us first, the new religion of Environmentalism headlined by the false scare of Global Warming dragging us into the bottomless pit of one-world government will end our experiment with democracy just as surely.  We're well past that "tipping point" where the wheels become to begin to wobble then all Hell breaks loose.  Short of a decade of snowy summers, the onset of worldwide communism that didn't die but just changed names in 1990 is now only a matter of time.  Call it whatever you like.   But, in the end, it is worldwide totalitarianism.   The ultimate goal of ruthless demagogues since the beginning of time.  It was a very long and complex path but a successful one nonetheless.    The path and the means didn't matter.  It's only the end result that matters.   At best, we can now only hope to lose as slowly as possible. 

This time last year the forec

This time last year the forecast.........Expect the MOTHER of ALL hurricane seasons!!!
Did the wackos ever explain what happened when there were NO notable hurricanes?????

yes, it was cause by global w

yes, it was cause by global warming

If we somehow determined that

If we somehow determined that we needed to warm the planet, just how would we go about doing that?

It is obvious that truth means nothing to these AGW believers. Heck, some can't even follow the posts and replies in this blog to say nothing of genuine science. But after all, they are 'science-deniers'.

It's been getting colder acro

It's been getting colder across the U.S. for weeks now. This isn't just one cold weekend and everybody's saying "feh" to Global Warming. This is all about saying, "Look, if the world's getting warmer, why is most of the US in a major cold front three weeks into Spring?" The fact is that no human can do anything to change the weather, and it's arrogant of us to think otherwise. The End.

Kimberly

Kim,

Based on your "feh" comment, is it safe to wish you a Happy Pesach?  :-)   ns

It's safe, but not 100% accur

It's safe, but not 100% accurate. :) I'm of Irish descent. My Jewish friends taught me to "Feh" with the best of 'em.


Happy Easter will do just fine, thanks. :)

most of these guys that come

most of these guys that come up with this #$ are pretty smart people. yet year after year they come out with this noise about global warming during the dead of winter and withing days of some of the most extreme weather conditions that are bad for their contentions.

could it be that they are fishing for grant money and really have to have headlines during this part of the federal and state budgetary cycles.

the state of california is going through their yearly fun and games for a budget that starts in about 90 days. federal budget work, in the areas of dividing up money that congress allocated in years past is working right now for contracts that would be signed and started on oct 1st.

it must be something like that or these people would be yowling about this during late summer when the u.s. north east and the european hot weather is at its warmest. doing it know makes them sound like fools.

c

 

 

The Gore Effect

Personally, I blame all this cold weather on the Gore Effect. Every time he opens his yap, the global climate gets colder.

Will somebody please muzzle the guy before we end up with glaciers in Phoenix.

Hunter/Giuliani 2008

What idiot can't see that rec

What idiot can't see that record cold temperatures in April FLY IN THE FACE of global "WARMING"?!

It's a new breed of intellectual moron who still holds on to the myth of "global" warming after record cold temps SWEEP THE COUNTRY the same day the IPCC releases their scientifically and politically biased report on global data mining.

Data mining : sifting through reams of data searching only for information that supports your pre-determined bias.

Global Cooling - Global Warming "tomayto, tomoto"

As the concensus of the vast number of the world's top scientists tell us, Global Cooling is just another form of Global Warming. It's still our fault and still requires immediate drastic action. As these same scientists "concensusing" together assure us, the world's weather and climate did not change one iota for billions of years before (hmmmm - have to "concensus" a moment for a learned answer) the day Ronald Reagan became president.

Here's the climate history of

Here's the climate history of the past 150,000 years.

·        150,000 y.a. - cold, dry full glacial world

·        around 130,000 y.a. - rapid warming initiates the Eemian interglacial (Stage  5e)

·        130,000-110,000 y.a. - global climates generally warmer and moister than  present, but with progressive cooling to temperatures more similar to  present. (except for possible global cold, dry event at 121,000 y.a.)

·        110,000 y.a. - a strong cooling marks the end of the Eemian interglacial  (Stage 5e).

·        105,000-95,000 y.a. - climate warms slightly but still cooler and drier than  present; strong fluctuations.

·        95,000 - 93,000 y.a. - another cooler phase similar to that at 110,000  y.a.

·        93,000 - 75,000 y.a. - a milder phase, resembling that at 105,000-95,000  y.a.

·        75,000 - 60,000 y.a. - full glacial world, cold and dry (the 'Lower Pleniglacial' or Stage 4)

·        60,000 - 25,000 y.a. - 'middling phase' of highly unstable but generally  cooler and drier-than-present conditions (Stage 3)

·        25,000 - 15,000 y.a. - full glacial world, cold and dry; Stage 2 (includes  the 'Last Glacial Maximum') (This period includes two 'coldest phases' - Heinrich Events - at around  23,000-21,000 y.a. and at 17,000-14,500 y.a.)

·        14,500 y.a. - rapid warming and moistening of climates in some areas. Rapid  deglaciation begins.

·        13,500 y.a. - nearly all areas with climates at least as warm and moist as  today's

·        12,800 y.a. (+/- 200 years)- rapid onset of cool, dry Younger Dryas in many  areas

·        11,500 y.a. (+/- 200 years) - Younger Dryas ends suddenly, back to warmth and  moist climates (Holocene, or Stage 1)

·        9,000 y.a. - 8,200 y.a. - climates warmer and often moister than  today's

·        about 8,200 y.a. - sudden cool and dry phase in many areas

·        8,000-4,500 y.a. - climates somewhat warmer and moister than today's

Since 4,500 y.a. - climates fairly similar to the present (except; about 2600 y.a. - relatively wet/cold event (of unknown duration)  in many areas)