It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on Wall Street” irony like this.
I notice Bill McKibben isn’t there. Strange how he talks a big game about climate and weather events becoming more extreme, but when the going gets tough… well you know. No mention of this comedic slap in the face by nature on the 350.org website.
Here’s the record statement from NOAA/NWS:
SXUS71 KOKX 300633 RER NYC RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 0221 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL SET AT CENTRAL PARK NY... A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 2.9 INCHES WAS SET AT CENTRAL PARK NY YESTERDAY...OCTOBER 29. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF TRACE SET IN 2002. ...RECORD OCTOBER SNOWFALL AMOUNT SET FOR CENTRAL PARK NY... CENTRAL PARK RECORDED 2.9 INCHES OF SNOWFALL ON OCTOBER 29 2011 SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN 1869...AN INCH OF SNOWFALL HAS NEVER BEEN RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. THE LAST TWO TIMES THAT MEASURABLE SNOW FELL IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER WAS...OCTOBER 21 1952 WITH 0.5 INCHES AND OCTOBER 30 1925 WITH 0.8 INCHES. THEREFORE...THIS BREAKS THE DAILY RECORD FOR SNOWFALL IN OCTOBER AND THE MOST SNOWFALL EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
The irony, it b-b-b-burns:
This starts to get spooky.
Keep in mind…..
…it’s the liberal version of the TEA Party
Maybe there really is a ‘Gore effect’. Grant money, stat!
That’s what you get when you try to put words in Mother Nature’s mouth: a slap down.
The irony is delicious.
Pretty soon the Greens will be saying: “the existence of any climate of any kind at anytime is proof of man-made global warming”.
p.s. – I wonder if AGW’ers flog themselves at night before they go to bed? Just curious.
Was Al Gore in town?
They will report it as not conflicting with the global warming hypothesis. They have to. They MUST. They have no choice but to. Backing off could not possibly be good for AGW theory. Despite any evidence to the contrary…
Its got to be ridiculously tough for the protestors right now when they have not given themselves any wiggle room at all. No chance to second guess.
J2
Gore Effect strikes again
Does this prove that there really is a god and he/she/it just loves to torment warmists?
Heh-heh.
OTOH, if they knew history, they could claim this as their “Valley Forge,” but I don’t think they know their history or they wouldn’t be demanding that we adopt the failures of the past.
What is it with the ‘gore effect? Kinda bizarre
Record snow in NY in October, Curry disses the BEST report and the UN go to Durban. Some late frosts in Durban should give the warmers even more problems. Just wishing and hoping.
Strange how many snowfall records have been broken in many places in the last 15 years.
My sympathies are not for the pathetic squatters … they’re for the folks in such places as the Bershires who got over two feet of the heavy wet snow, with tree limbs and power lines down, who’ll now have to rough it for at least several days through no choice of their own.
It is justice… just not the kind of justice that the greens would want 😀
The OWS people should just declare climate victory and move on to the next issue.
When I first read this off to my wife she asked if I was on The Onion again!
🙂
Oh gee, and I thought it was just because I’ve been too busy to rake the leaves. Well, not quite true – I raked the back yard so I could run the lawn mower, then did the area where I put my permanent snow stake with a lower height, then used hedge clippers right where I put it, and finally put it. All that’s to minimize the daily error from reading the stake through out the winter.
I track snow depths each morning and the running sum (Snow Depth Days). It appears they’re useless as an indicator of climate change, but they can show seasonal patterns and provide a handy metric of how snowbound a winter is.
I hope I can finish finish last season’s data tonight…. See http://wermenh.com/sdd/index.html
Globull warming only happens from June thru Sept. So about next August it should be hot again. Doh! Now, please excuse me while I watch “Forbidden Planet” for the umpteenth time. Far more entertaining.
“Adash Daniel, 24, is a protester who had been at the park for three weeks. He had a sleeping bag and cot that he was going to set up, but changed his mind.
“I’m not much good to this movement if I’m shivering,” he said as he left the park.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/at-least-three-deaths-blamed-on-northeast-us-snowstorm/article2219079/
Shivering is an activity. Wouldn’t that make activists more active?
Robert Austin says:
October 30, 2011 at 2:16 pm
That was my first thought – maybe there is a God after all.
What exactly is your point in the ad hom on Bill McKibbon? I don’t thin k engaging in this kind of demonizing helps your cause at all.
REPLY: OWS didn’t have climate component until he showed up and told them “Wall Street is occupying the atmosphere”. There’s an old saying, “if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. McKibben like the heat, not the cold apparently. Calling him on his lack of participation on “Climate Justice Day” is fair game. – Anthony
Back to the Xboxes at home.
“Climate Justice”… for once no doublespeak!
My second thought was: “sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh shadenfraud…”
Spelt deliberately without the final “e” and sung to the tune of ” I I I I I I like you very much”.
Is Ali boy passing through JFK on his yearly migration to warmer climates???