Above: Photo taken at eye level of a sign already elevated because of seasonal snow issues. See below for photo of sunken boats in Valdez harbor due to snow loading.
The Valdez Alaska Dispatch writes:
All the experts say the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal.
Good thing she wasn’t in Valdez this week when the citizenry got buried under a record snowfall. We’re not talking about your ordinary little dump here. That was in Copenhagen, where world leaders were meeting to discuss what to do about global warming and the Bloomberg news service was warning that Barack Obama and the rest would “face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.”
Valdez, Alaska got more than four inches per hour at the height of the snowstorm that began there Monday and ran through the week. By the time the citizens of Alaska’s only oil port finally caught a break, the snow was piled 5 feet, 8 inches deep.
Yes, you read right.
Five feet, 8 inches; over the head of your average American woman, up the nose of your average American man. The National Weather Service called it record.
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So much snow that snow loads sunk one boat in the harbor while other owners try to keep up with snow removal.
From NBC TV in Washington DC:
History has been made in Washington, DC also. The snow has already broken the 1 day record for DC. The old record of 11.5″ on December 17,1932 is now in 2nd place since National Airport has over 15″ with snow still falling. This storm is now in 6th place all-time and the February 1983 storm total of 16.6″ may yet be eclipsed.
h/t SPPI
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Is “El Gordo” (the fat one) visiting Alaska?
This is last thing we need:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/20/philippines.volcano/
It is cold enough as it is. Global warming, bring it on!
Remember everyone this cooling is really just part of the warming.
5’8″ of Global Warming OMG… it’s just like The Day After Tomorrow right?
So poetic!
HAM Weather map of Dec 19 snow records in USA
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow
JonesII:
No, Gordon Brown is off round the world trying to make the ‘Copenhagen accord’ legaly binding.
He would like this done within six months.
I bet he does,With a coming general election that will see the buffoon outed.
A Nobel prize awaits Gordon while the next British Prime minister has to rebuild the UKs shattered economy with one arm tied behind his back.
Selfish bastard socialism at its best.
It is something to read the comments the Alaska Dispatch got, after it began its article with,
“All the experts say the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal. Good thing she wasn’t in Valdez this week when the citizenry got buried under a record snowfall…”
It looks like the general public is getting fed up with the MSM bull.
Cue the “more frequent extreme weather events are consistent with the theory of global warming” quote.
All the experts say the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal.
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Um, no, in fact, former Governor Palin established a sub-cabinet while governor specifically to address climate change. Try again.
Headline (breathlessly)
“Clinton and Obama stop global warming by buying off UN with 100 billion per year, effects felt immediately in Valdez ” Pachauri in full agreement with hand extended.
Gaia strikes again!
The sunken boat is a reminder why those brave man in “The deadliest Catch” need to hammer ice of their boat now and then.
Overhere in the Netherlands we got somewhere between 4 and 8 inches of globalwarming. Wich in Dutch terms translates as (almost) no public transport, even the highways are still frozen and snowed under so every official institute warns not to go from home unless it is really nessecary. And on top this, no pizza-deliveries because of the road-conditions, oh noes.
In Germany we just had one of the coldest December weekends in a long time.
Supposed to get milder in the days ahead. But the 15 day forecast shows colder than normal temps.
Oh look, Barry and Flash Gordon are so good that in 24 hours they’ve already overdone it. Could someone leave them a memo to turn up the Sun slightly; I’m already chilly.
Oh, while your at it, ask Barry to part the Atlantic please. I’m due on a plane to DC, but I’m afraid of hitting a patch of turbulent global warming.
vukcevic (08:55:32) :
Joe Bastardi (from 12/11/09) on ‘the triple crown of cooling’— ocean currents, solar activity, volcanic activity
8 minute video
http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/27870481/the-real-problems-with-climate-change.htm#q=imus+bastardi
The way the intro to the article reads, I think the Dispatch is attributing the heavy snowfall to “climate change”. No mention if its human caused or not. Anyway, no matter what the weather, they can always attribute it to climate change. How convenient.
With the population’s short attention span, the last “weather” wins. Tough tulips, carbonophobes!
Ex governor Palin has pretty broad shoulders, I’m sure she’ll take the Dispatch’s misinformed jibe, so as to let them save face….. She’s that sort of person, she’ll give ’em a wink though.
Alaskan’s are really gonna need that gas pipelines revenue and gas if the winters start getting harsher. Palin helped that happen.
They can hide declines on graphs but they can’t hide real snow, although they have proved it to be Rotten…
It is still quite chilly in Europe http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8423442.stm
Record fall in Valdez, Alaska: 5′ 8″ of snow and 10′ of BS.
Coldest 20th December since 1981 here in Germany, as i just read in the news. Keeps snowing. German leftists (Greens and Social Democrats) fuming about failure of COP15 to save mankind, mention future suffering of children and children of children (What surprise), ignore cold conditions (Weather being no climate).
I’m kinda worried about the vinyards in New Foundland and along Hadrians wall in north England.
Are they still around?
John Philips,
“The way the intro to the article reads, I think the Dispatch is attributing the heavy snowfall to “climate change”. No mention if its human caused or not. Anyway, no matter what the weather, they can always attribute it to climate change. How convenient.”
Could this be a reference to a new cooling trend?
JonesII (08:54:46) : “Is “El Gordo” (the fat one) visiting Alaska?”
I believe in this case is should be spelled El Goredo.