Many WUWT readers have heard about this:
UPDATE: Video report on the DC snow here h/t to Stefan P
Here is my IntelliWeather Monday and hour by hour forecast for Washington, DC.
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST MONDAY
Includes the Counties: District Of Columbia, Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria
Includes the cities: Washington, Alexandria, Falls Church
Tonight…Snow. Snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches. Brisk with lows in the lower 20s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Monday…Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning…Then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Additional snow accumulation around an inch. Total snow accumulation 7 to 8 inches. Brisk with highs in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
Hour by Hour, as of 4:30PM EST Sunday. Click for full sized image
By the time Partly Cloudy skies appear about 3PM Monday, there will be about 4-8″ of snow on the ground in DC.
Plus, in New York City, where Jim Hansen would likely depart from, they also have a Winter Storm Warning in effect to 6PM Monday with forecast of:
WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST MONDAY
Includes the Counties: Hudson, New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Richmond (Staten Island), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens Tonight…Snow developing this evening…Heavy at Times. Snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches. Windy with lows in the mid 20s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Monday…Snow in the morning…Then snow likely in the afternoon. Snow May be heavy at Times in the morning. Total snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches. Windy. Near steady temperature in the mid 20s. North winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
If Hansen hasn’t left NYC already, I’d say it is doubtful he’ll even make the protest given it is a Monday, and Monday’s are usually pretty bad commutes even without bad weather. Looks like it is going to be a…
More on the DC weather story form Justin Berk, Baltimore Weather Examiner
I interrupt the snowstorm updates to bring you this pressing issue. Monday, March 2nd 2009 is the date for a scheduled protest by Capitol Climate Action (CCA).
Heavy snow expected at the Nation’s Capitol on Monday
Their website labels it:
Mass civil disobedience at the coal fired power plant in Washington, DC
CCA claims this will be the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in US history. There is actually a request to wear dress clothes. That seems odd. Is this a target to get young Americans in a vogue protest?
My forecast from this morning can be found here (I will have a new update by this evening). If you go just by the NWS forecast, then snow will range between 5-10 inches with wind gusts over 30 mph. The snowstorm forecast is ironic not only because it falls on the date of this protest, but also because it is a late season event. The normal high for the date in Washington, DC is 51F. What would be worse: Keep the protest on in the snowstorm, or cancel it because of the snowstorm?
The infamous Dr. James Hansen should be there leading the charge. My post last week about 2008 being the coldest year this decade included a reference to Hansen. I wrote, “This is the same man who turned off the air conditioning in the Capitol while speaking about Global Warming on a hot day in 1988.” I also mentioned his exposure of bad data for Russia just this past October. He used September data (a statistically warmer month) in place of cooler October data. This skewed the temperatures upward.
I don’t knock him for his extreme beliefs, but I do disagree with the questionable tactics he uses to get his message across. According to Fox News , he is in hot water since he works for NASA, yet is helping to organize a protest.
It seems like the Climate Crew has had some trouble getting their messages across. It’s almost as if mixed signals are coordinated by nature itself. Marc Marano, Communications Director for the GOP on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) sent out a list of events that seem to follow the Gore Effect. This was labeled by Politico.com as:
The so-called Gore Effect happens when a global warming-related event, or appearance by the former vice president and climate change crusader, Al Gore, is marked by exceedingly cold weather or unseasonably winter weather.
Check out this list courtesy of Marc Marano:
Note: The “Gore Effect” has a long and storied history. What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys mocking global warming fear promoters.
1) First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated – October 2008
3) HOUSE HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF THE PLANET’ CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM – February 2007
4) NOT AGAIN! DC ‘Snow Advisory’ Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing – March 2007
5) Gore decries ‘global warming’ in bitterly cold NYC – December 2006
9) Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow – January 2008
10) Global warming rally in the snow – April 2007
11) Snow won’t dampen global-warming rallies – April 2007
13) Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm – March 2007
14) The Gore Effect, Cont. – Gore speaks in Italy during ‘rare’ cold and snow
15) Tracking ‘The Gore Effect’ – Politico November 26,6, 2008
16) Climate protest cancelled ‘due to rain and cold’ – Nov. 23, 2008
There is a God and he has a sense of humor.
140 students from the college I work at left to go to DC on Thursday and staying through Monday for the protest. It will be interesting to hear their take on the irony involved.
Divine justice without doubt.
It’s always going to be lose/lose to you people. If these events are held during the colder months, idiots will crow as if it’s somehow “ironic”. If they are held during warmer months, the same idiots will complain that it’s unfair staging (e.g. the 1988 testimony).
Nothing is going to satisfy people who believe 7 mutually contradictory things about climate change.
It’s weather. It happens.
REPLY: Nice to see you using your real identity rather than the fake one you’ve been trying out here and at CA unsuccessfully. But instead of concentrating on broken things, try to see the humor in life, and in this.- Anthony
Please……no more….I can’t take anymore….my stomach ACHES from laughing so hard….
Somebody up there has a sense of humour.
The Institut in Paris, France, then second only to the Royal Society in prestige amongst natural philosophers, decided in 1815 after prolonged and furious debate that the idea that stones could fall from the sky was quite absurd.
Three months later a shower of meteorites fell just outside Paris to the wonder of all.
Kindest Regards
I am waiting for the cognitive dissonance to kick in and for them to claim that colder temperatures and more snow are proof of warming. And the fact that global temperatures have been falling for the past 10 years to be another indication of global warming.
It is fascinating. I never believed that so many people could be so gullible. Fooling all of the people isn’t required. You only need to fool enough to get elected. I fear we are fast becoming an idiocracy.
“It’s weather. It happens.”
I see the beginnings of a glimmer of understanding, in that statement. See if you can apply your epiphany to warm spells, as well.
What amuses me is that I sat through debates back in the 70’s where the greenies wanted to take the yet to be completed South Texas Nuclear Project and convert it to COAL. It would have been ludicrously impractical, of course.
I’d be willing to bet some of those same greenzillas are in the crowd around Hanssen, spitting hate toward their once-loved coal.
Les, don’t read this.. it might be the last straw! 😉
I been blogging this over at DailyKos to a rather hostile reception.
I started last Thursday saying that if the trough deepened, they might get a big snow event.
I gotta confess, I don’t share some of the political inclinations of those who comment here; however, I believe that Hansen really went beyond the pale in comparing people who advocate continued use of coal to Nazi mass murderers and coal-fired generators to Auschwitz crematoria. It shows how desperate and intolerant he is.
So I am absolutely delighted to see him freeze his tush off tomorrow. And all those who chose to defend him and his vulgar assertions are equally subject to ridicule.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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As a “you people”, assuming that means me a reader of WUWT, is the Idiot? Only an idiot would hold a Global Warming Protest in a Blizzard.
There are several even temperature months ahead that all would work well to stage such a protest and not risk lives by filling the snow slicked streets and hiways with un-necessary vehicles driving, left running, etc to rally against CO2 emissions. Which is your right and one I completely support, but I have a right to laugh hysterically at the lunacy you engage in and I find it amusing you would lash out at such a “compromised” time.
I realize that “Social Responsibility” is a theme of the day. Where was the organizers sense of that when this weather was widely reported as coming since late last week? Where I live we call it prudence to re-schedule outside events in response to weather reports.
All I can say is “good luck with that”
Capitol cam
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/metrosquare/
Ouch!
Make that – – “I’ve been blogging.”
Too much moonshine in the holler, I guess.
Gotta stay warm somehow.
No Doubt Dr Hansen will be cycling from New York to Washington in order to save on all those CO2 emissions!
Oh please, its not april first.. its not joke.. please let it be serious..
YAY.. i just love it..this is gonna make my week.
Evidence that not only is there a God, but that he has a sense of humor.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-Albert Einstein
Hmmm…no entry on Wikipedia for the Gore Effect?
Things like this make me believe that Nature itself takes action against political movements that result in fascist power. A bit like how the advance of the Nazis towards Russia was slowed by one of the coldest winters ever. Same thing happened to Napoleon.
Too bad D.C. cannot experience what we had here in far northern ND last Friday morning: 25 degrees BELOW zero F; with a bit of a breeze. Chill factor somewhere around 35-40 degrees below zero.
People from ”down south” who think the 20s above zero is cold have NO IDEA what really cold weather feels like. I looked for Al Gore and AGW REAL hard this winter; especially on the day in January where my outdoor sensors were reporting 41.6 degrees below zero (and that is WITHOUT chill factor).
Is climateaudit down again?
REPLY: No, – Anthony
I’m one that thinks God is sending a message, not laughing. Oxfam estimated that 30 million more people starved last year due to our diversion of food to fuel. Rain forests with diverse flora and fauna are being cut down to make alcohol from surgar cane or biofuels from palm oil. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico doubled as we expanded corn production for ethanol as fuel… could that be due to run off from fertilizer used in corn cultivation? Just as there are unwanted side effects from burning fossile fuels, there are unwanted side effects from renewables. Anyone want to argue about which is more imediate and severe?
Still waiting for the seven mutually contradictory things. Even of greater interest – just what do you mean by mutually contradictory?
Up here in Canada, we wear these neat little cable thingies on our winter boots. I’ll lend you mine.
God hates liars.
I guess nature is giving “global warming” the cold shoulder!
Oh please, someone throw him a snowball. Like to see him with snow all over his face.
Ridicule may well be the most powerful weapon we have against the Warming Religion.
A, and perhaps THE, key attraction of any religion is the belief you have access to important information, particularly information about future events that others don’t have.
This ‘knowledge’ gives believers a sense of superiority, as well as making them feel they have control over their and others future. BTW, you frequently see this attitude of ‘I know and you don’t’ in this and forums.
Ridicule will often undermine the believers sense of certainty about the future in ways that facts and logic never will. That’s because they didn’t arrive at their belief through facts and logic. So facts and logic don’t sway them.
It’s always going to be lose/lose to you people.
Wrong group, me thinks, ie “The climate is in crisis!” “If we don’t act now, we’ll all be flooded!” “One more coal plant, and we’re all going to die!” “We’re nearing the tipping point, oh noes!!”
etc. etc. etc.
Remember, folks – the NH frigid winter is weather. Australia’s hot, dry summer is climate. And the sky is falling – all over DC just now, heh 🙂