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No end to snow yet — more coming today

God is really blessing this State in a time when needed moisture is so desperately needed. I over-heard a neighbor from California who had moved here about 8 years ago. He said, my word is this the way it used to be in Northern Utah. My sister who lives in Smithfield said yes, we used to have winters like this in Cache Valley all the time! The man from California said, man have I been mis-led the last 8 years, that is, I just thought the previous winters was the way it was here. Makes me re-think about my move from California.

I have often said myself, that if the Valley had had winters like I knew when I grew up in the Valley from 1954 to 1984, there wouldn't have been too many people from California moving to the Valley! As an ole dairyman, -30 below and lots of snow was the norm my first 30 years from 1954 to 1984, with the exception of the drought year of 1977! I say bring it on, more and more, it is going to take 8 years of winters like this to make up for the past lack of winters.

later on we'll conspire and dream by the fire.etc,etc,etc.it's a great time to get reacquainted with you know who.

Every snow storm this season has been and is a blessing. We need the moisture so badly. Bring it on and keep it coming. Hopefully the next two years will be the same.

The climate fluctuates over time and will continue to do so. It has nothing to do with God. We've only had good climate records here in Utah for just over 100 years, so who is to say what the long term average for precipitation and temperature is? Half of Utah used to be at the bottome of a lake at one time. Is that the way it "should" be normally - who knows what the norm is. We humans have a very myopic view of the earth and its processes.

A year ago, a conference was being held in Park City in which the Rocky Mountain states were being told that global warming would shrink snowfall and decimate the winter sports industry. It happened to be held on a day of record cold, the coldest on record. Now that we have all this snow, we can conclude one of two things: Either global warming does NOT necessarily affect snowfall, or global warming is not strong enough to be affecting anything. In fact, there is no evidence that any current weather conditions are unequivocal results of global warming rather than simply within the range of normal climate variations that happen over decades and centuries.

Global warming is at worst something whose effects are not going to be visible for another 50 to 100 years. Even then, the actual magnitude of such effects appears to be so small that the rational thing to do is cope with them as they come along, rather than waste money in a fruitless battle to decrease a totally natural gas that is present only in trace amounts yet is also the foundation of life on earth.