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perceptions_now wrote on Apr 6 th, 2011 at 11:31am: muso wrote on Apr 3 rd, 2011 at 2:04pm: The other point about snow in the UK is that increased snowfall is perfectly in line with forecasts of increased precipitation. You can have a terrible winter of snow in the UK with higher overall temperatures.
A poorly thought out response to a newspaper is not exactly a scientific prediction.
Wentz et al. [2007] reported that global mean precipitation increased at a rate of 7.4 ± 2.6% per °C between 1987 and 2006.
Increased CO2 leads to increased warming, which leads to increased moisture on average - which in turn leads to further increased warming and increased precipitation - but it's by no means a uniform effect. That is the case, the average Global effect will mean more heat, more rain & for some, the counterintuitive effect of more snow.
However, in some areas of the planet, especially those which already had a drier climate, the effect may actually be the opposite, including such places as S/West Australia, S/West USA & some segments of N/East Africa, looking at drying out!
In Perth, for example, we continue to expand on a near 40 year trend of warming & drying, with this Summer continuing the trend, BIG TIME!
We are now down to 24% of capacity, in the Dams and the major Gnangara underground acquifier, which supplies 60-70% of our water, is shrinking quickly.
However, the WA Water minister is not concerned, as he is an "unconvinced sceptic" of Climate Change and he is still not contemplating major or even medium water restrictions.The alphabet letters D & H, come to mind, for some strange reason!
And yet more WA desal planst are in the pipeline. You have to remember what WA really is economically. I have worked there and lived there. Its one big profitable quary. And when I say profitable I mean proftibale for multinational corporations - remember for every mining dollar generated in WA about 65 cents goes offsure as profit. So you cannot even exist in the WA parliament as a minister of an imporant portfolio unless you are subserviant to the mining and resources corporations. If you have reservations you keep your mouth shut anyway or yorue out the door and in Both political parties! So does it surprise you that the WA water resources minister is a AGW Denier? To call him a skeptic is an insult to the word skeptic. Skepticism is a Greek word and means to think about and to question ideas, it is a fundamental pillar of the scientific method. 
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