Are there "record snows" or "more ice today than in 1979"?

There is indeed evidence....that the claims are both false.

Global snowcover has a long-term downward trend in the spring and summer (also in the fall, but it's not a statistically significant trend).

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/heavy-snow-...

And global sea ice has decreased since 1979.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj6hp...

You suggested:

"if you look at 10,000 places that sometimes get snow, how many of them will break 100 year records in ANY given year? I'm no statistics whiz, but won't the answer be pretty close to 100?"

That would be assuming we haven't been warming for 300 years since the Maunder Minimum

Here is a link since you don't seem to believe anything except gloom and doom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_minimum

That was the time of the Little Ice Age

For me, one year doesn't make a trend but the relatively cold time corresponds to the lack of sun spots. I assume you alarmists believe that there is correlation and that it isn't just a coincidence, but I suppose that might interfer with your unfounded belief that CO2 is driving the climate.

News Flash. It isn't.

Last year the entire nothern hemisphere was below average in temperature, which is far more important that precipitation though in parts of eastern Canada it was the second snowiest winter on record after that of 1971.

The important concern is not precipitation though, it's temperature. The temps are lower, not sure about precip but that's more a regional thing. It's too early to see whether this winter is record breaking, as you ask. Last winter was though, in terms of temp.

It has never snowed in Kenya, until this year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7596134.stm

It never snows in the Saharan countries of Morroco and Algiers, until this year.

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=8014

Vegas has its biggest snow storm in more than forty years.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468344,00.html

Sydney's a nice warm place isn't it? It would never snow there, yet it did:

http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/article.php?page_id=22...

For the first time in seventy years it snowed in London during October.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/29/weather-l...

This one is from last January but a good one, first snow fall in Baghdad in one hundered years.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080112/96362898.html

You know with just a couple of minutes of googling and you could avoid looking like the fool.

Philadelphia has received maybe an inch of snow this winter. Hardly a record breaker.

Your very high on yourself, knowledge and education without humility are of no value. The fact is no one has a real clue on climate change it is speculation at best and fraud at worst.

Many states have received their annual average of snow by mid December and there's still 3 - 4 months left of winter.

It's easy to check, even easier to believe what others tell you.

Ok I think the links have been posted on that one.

NASA says there is less arctic ice than in 1979 and even has a video about it, see link below.

Facts shmacts!

ah! here it is - north dakota!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28507983/

so it must be true for the rest of the world, eh?