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
Could it be “the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history” after all?
Looks like 50-100 cold people, next to an empty street.
no coal no gas no nuke no ?
back to the stone age.
maybe they will tie themselves to the tail of the next commet,
How cute….they’re rapping now. All 200 that is left of them.
One song goes “Show me how democracy works! This is how democracy works!”
Democracy is just 200 people on a street corner apparently.
Another rap went “No coal, no gas, no nukes”
A black dude walk past shaking his head at these rich white kids with no rhythm or beat.
AKD: I have just seen the video. As a southamerican, having heard a lot of times the same exhorts from communists (a by far smallest minority in my country, Peru, about 0.5% of the electorate) it greatly surprises me hearing them shouted on the streets of the US capital, I just can´t believe it hearing “The people united will never be defeated”, its really incredible. Do you realize where it takes?, think in Cuba, for example, where a MD income reaches as high as $10 per month.
Are you nuts?. Is the “global warming” hoax going to melt down the statue of liberty?
Sorry 2:30. The neighbors want their parking back. Hey Hey! Ho Ho! The Greenpeace Van has got to go!
A girl just took the stage to sing. In her own words “I’m going to sing you a song to warm you up.”
There are almost as many “recording” the event as attending..
This is a great learning experience for all those bored students. A day away from the university and credit for Anarchy 101, doesn’t get much better than that. I’m sure these junior protester’s services will be useful in the future. So much to protest, so little time!
I think that this demonstration is all reassuring, really. To our point of view, that is. That there are so few who think like they do, that they are dwindling in number, and that their case fails by the realities presented against it. There’s nothing more satisfying than that.
I don’t think these fools realise this coal plant was being decommissioned anyway. It only supplies some basic energy to a few blocks now.
I’m having trouble seeing any protesters in the webcam image from this morning: click
I hope someone saved some pics showing the turnout.
Old woman on stage is demanding the coal be replaced by natural gas. Immediately her fellow protestors screamed “No natural gas!!!!!”
This is getting funnier. She is now saying she went to India to get agreement on climate change, but she doesn’t appear to realise India’s best scientists compiled a report which concluded climate change is not a problem.
For a person who believes we should control our consumption of resources, Adriane Marie Brown is literally a walking hypocrite at under 5′ 4″ and weighing over 200 pounds.
Death train Hansen is about to speak in a little while.
“That’s why the Arctic is melting, that’s why Australia is on fire, that’s why every glacier in the world is receading.”
Shameless.
Oh no not another singer.
“That’s why the Arctic is melting, that’s why Australia is on fire, that’s why every glacier in the world is receading.”
Seriously, very shameless, AKD. But the guy looked like he was really dumb, probably got beats at school a lot. So we can’t blame him for saying something like that. Let’s see what Hansen says.
I don’t think the singer onstage understands that the song she is singing was written by a libertarian who was singing out against government interference.
But global warming agendas are all about interference.
Hmmm
The speaker says there is soooo much mercury in fish that they are unsafe to eat. So how come the fish are alive when their tolerance to mercury is far less than a humans is?
“A company I’m a member of the board of…”
No conflict there.
The speaker continued on to say that solar power is free for all forever.
sigh, the ignorance
Hansen got introduced by that socialist green shirted midget as the most eminent climatologist on the planet.
Oh nice, a rapper is singing a gangsta song about being shot in the hood
What happened to the dress code? I thought everybody participating in this demonstration were asked to “dress to impress”.
This is hardly Hansen’s first protest: http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/jointappeal.html
“The Mission to Washington protest in 1992 declared the United States the biggest polluter on Earth.
Meanwhile, the market is down nearly another 300 today, off nearly 15% since Obama became president and even more from his inauguration bounce to 8,405 around Jan. 28. Too bad our economic numbers don’t mean as much to Pelosi, Markey and Obama as the number of protestors outside a coal plant.