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
anna v (07:01:16) :
“Pertinent questions:
Who is funding this demonstration? Soros? Gore with his cap and trade bounty to come?
It smells of government organization, since it is pushing Obama’s program.
Or are they maybe afraid Obama will put the climate on the back burner because of the economy problems and want to give an extra push? 2500 demonstrators are a gnat on an elephant’s ear.”
Anna,
“A glance at the list of sponsors brings home a sense of the breadth of support there is for this movement. Greenpeace and the American Council on Renewable Energy are there, as you might expect, but there are other, less likely sponsors. This revolution comes courtesy of funding from Wal-Mart, The Ford Foundation and Roche Pharmaceuticals”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/03/obama_crowd_power.html
Alarmism has consequences:
Higher energy prices will kill 150.000 people in the US
http://www.openmarket.org/2009/03/02/alarmism-has-consequences/
Global madness is here. Al Gone is frozen in his path while Hansen is freeking out and the sandal wearers have got frost-bite.
Where I live, we just got informed officially that this February was the coldest for the last 30 years by 2 degrees C (5 degrees F). The mammoths may soon be cloned from their bone DNA and let loose in the white-outs while the neanderthals, evolving from the Gorers, shall prevail.
Ron de Haan (08:02:17) :
thanks for the bbc link
It is fortunate that we have nature, or the gods, on the cooling side. Lets hope they keep it up, because it is the only thing that can stop these people in their tracks. A freezing spring, acold summer and a snowy autumn should be ordered :).
RonPE (22:21:47) :
My simpler version: ‘Man makes plans. God laughs.’
Here’s one I like:
Mike Tyson, when asked about his opponent’s plan in an upcoming fight:
Tyson responded, “Everyone has a plan … until they get hit”
Let’s not get too tickled by this. Turnabout is fair play, and the Pranksters Above might in turn provide NYC with a heatwave ten days hence, to discomfit the climate skeptics at their convention there.
..and apparently 23F in Washington DC – snicker
It would be poetic if the power plant shut down for a week. This week. Let the politicians et al get a taste of the post-coal era.
Current conditions at DCA are 23F, wind 27KTS gusting to 37 KTS from the North, and blowing snow. I wonder how many of the protesters will suffer frostbite today.
“There is a God and he has a sense of humor. ”
e.g., “Sow to the wind and reap the whirlwind”.
Things may be tolerable the next several years in America’s heartland but the misery and desolation in most of the world will cause us to avert our eyes.
I’m still waiting for Thingsbreak to enlighten us on the “7 mutually contradictory things about climate change”.
I suppose I should become a climate alarmist.
In my day job I’d stand to gain a great deal from an increased death rate amongst the elderly.
> REPLY: Hang in there Ric. Consider this maxim “Snow makes people stupid”. Watch the antics of people in 1″ of snow in ATL and you’ll understand. –
I was looking forward to that, but it took AirTran three hours to find my luggage, so I didn’t make it to the hotel until after midnight.
I did deduce that Atlantans don’t keep snow brushes in their cars. Some of the cars leaving the airport parking lot had used just windshield wipers. (Heavy snow often breaks them, bad move in general.) I generally have one brush and one ice scraper, but use a sweep broom at home for decent snowfalls. for driveway, step, and deck work I have snow blower, snow push scraper (to get what the snow blower misses), plastic scraper (for deck), coal shovel-like thing for digging out blocks of deep snow and under cars, and an ice scraper to deal with ice storms.
In northern New England, that’s considered a normal collection.
Serious questions?
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/03/02/green-ink-is-now-the-right-time-for-cap-and-trade/
As of 11:30 am, downtown DC isn’t too bad. Most sidewalks seem to be clear and the skies are clearing. On the other hand, it is 23F with single digit wind chills.
“I wonder how long it takes before the American People find out they’ve elected the worst President in the History of the USA.”
Certainly the first affirmative action figure, the O as ‘Magic President’, will cause us to forget forever the first Iowan President.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/03/02/VI2009030200799.html?hpid=artslot
…funny, isn’t it?
Will DC Global Warming Protest ne the end of Hansen?
I don’t think so!
http://www.examiner.com/x-3420-Cleveland-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d1-Will-DC-global-warming-protest-be-the-end-of-James-Hansen
An e-mail posted on the Kapitol Klimate Action blog:
I don’t want to travel to DC from Frederick in the snow today. However, I am donating my bail money to an organization that fights mountaintop removal. I hope the turnout is a good one for the day. Try to stay warm.
Katherine
Yep, DC is a ghost town today. Temperature right now is 25.56 degrees F on Pennsylvania Avenue. We are expecting a record low temperature tonight of 13 degrees above zero.
Listening to the radio this morning the previous record was set in 1925? (Don’t hold me to date, I was half listening).
Too many people is supposed to be the real problem with the world, isn’t it? Maybe we’ve discovered the real reason for the enthusiasm for biofuels — starving the world’s poor to death and thus reducing the stress on the environment from overpopulation?
Roger Knights (08:20:58) :
Roger, should a “heat wave” come to pass in NYC 10 days hence, it will merely demonstrate that warmer is better than cold any day of the week. After all, the enemy of life on this planet is ice.
Ron de Haan (07:57:05)
“Obama himself is behind the whole deal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/03/obama_crowd_power.html”
Obama Mugabe Chavez?
Is this really the United States of America, and not Zimbabwe or Venezuela?
Check out Stefan P’s video link above @08:46:46. [The guy says, “I don’t have to work because I work for the federal government.”]