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
In the 1988 testimony, somebody deliberately made the temperature in the room uncomfortably warm. The weather, however, it entirely natural. How can you compare the two?
Climate change happens. Get used to it.
Yup. It’s snowing in Washington DC on the AGW parade.
Weatherbug ABC weather cam:
http://tinyurl.com/b4berv
The power plant should have just shut down today…….save on CO2
Bill W, yes, it’s becoming like a Chavez mob rule down there. What on Earth are high government officials doing attending a mass civil disobedience rally???
on the CCA site there is a live stream.
Hansen is there in a floppy white aussie hat.
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/
312 viewers… probably 1000 people there.
Some organizer is getting some of the lemmings charged up to make the jump of the cliff…
The Guardian and the BBC are already starting to trickle in news that the “protest” (cough….sure) is a success and downplay the cold weather.
The media has left rationality behind, guys. They just pander to any damn thing that will erode our liberties:
Marxists (misunderstood apparently, should be given their 75th chance)
Terrorists (victims of course, should be put up in five star hotels when caught)
Environmental activists (they get almost none of the vote but should get all of the attention, they are called grassroot campaigns when they are anything but grassroots), etc
It seems to be that a select number of journalists are doing this so that if their socialist utopia comes around as fast as they hope it will then they will acquire positions of power or become spokesmen of the state.
Indain guest speaker just said they want to stop dirty biofuel… I am confused
Sorry, on
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/ there is a live feed
around 1000 people or so.
Yes, the media will try to portray the protest as a success, but limit the footage of the snow and bitter cold. That’s how the Soviets manipulated coverage.
The entire AGW movement and its condescending arrogance fully deserves the ridicule it is now reaping.
“Oh outside the weather is so frightful, but the fire inside is so delightful…
Let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!
bushy (05:32:27) :
“Seems that they are going ahead with this. Should be interesting.
“Of course it’s still on! We expect 2,500 dedicated activists to stand tall at the Capitol Power Plant and demonstrate that the course of history bends toward progress.”
I think that progress is the opposite of what they want to achieve”.
bushy,
Wrong,
obama and his crew invited 12.000 activists who will be trained in organizing further demonstrations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/03/obama_crowd_power.html”
Hengav,
Stop nuclear, biofuel, coal and fossil fuels. That means being catapulted back to the stone ages.
hengav (10:19:44) :
“on the CCA site there is a live stream.
Hansen is there in a floppy white aussie hat.
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/
312 viewers… probably 1000 people there.”
the viewers are 559 since you posted the link. wattsup has a lot of viewers :).
The protestors are useful idiots. I am concerned about them occupying and shutting down the Capitol’s power plant. That would be way over the line. I have heard that Pelosi may show up to show her support. I haven’t seen anything to confirm this.
Yay! There are protestors on our side!
Curses, Gored again.
I am looking with morbid facination. Like trainwreck T.V. Where is Dog the Bounty Hunter? I have seen Hansen twice. He is in a trenchcoat and an Aussie floppy hat. They are out in front of the plant now. They are tyring to get the lemmings to jump off the cliff… I hope everyone plays safe.
obama and his crew invited 12.000 activists who will be trained in organizing further demonstrations.
This was the purpose of Al Gore’s youth training camps.
@Bill W (09:33:38) :
Yes, Obama is, as well as many other Democrats, businessmen and the media.
Obama
http://obamaism.blogspot.com/
Media and other Dems (Cronkite, Clinton…)
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck07.20.07.shtml
Like Roosevelt’s “New Deal” (stimulus), Obama’s plans won’t work, either…
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
But then, that’s not what this is all about. Limiting energy sale and use deprives us of the freedom people need to prosper, without which they cannot remain free. Al Gore’s ‘sky is falling’ propaganda is to sell us on giving them control over our energy consumption.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/july2007/030707Fascism.htm
Their plans to limit our access to affordable energy…
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196613.php
…and their insane spending…
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196583.php
…will very rapidly impoverish us, making us dependent on, hence subservient to them.
Because the misuse of science is just a means to an end, and not a very bright and shining one at that.
“… probably 1000 people there.”
Only a thousand? But… but the BBC’s
Insufferable Man“Ethical Man” says 12,000 will be there. Ethical Man wouldn’t be fibbing, would he?CCA update:
The crowd, which has got to be at least 2000 people, is preparing to walk down to the coal plant.
I’m sure that they do believe it “has got to be” at least 2,000 people. What it looks like is several hundred very cold kids.
Also, streaming video informs us to go to http://www.presidentobamagrants.com to get free monies from the government!!!
“Support the workers, not the plant.” LOL
Put a fork in it, its done. Time of death: 3:30 (beacuse the soaps start in half an hour).
I just looked at the live video… not very impressive. One the one side of the street opposite the camera I estimated maybe 120. Not sure how many on the camera side as he doesn’t pan that way much, but let’s say the same. Puts it at maybe 240-300 max. Certainly not the several thousand their web site claims.
Nancy Pelosi’s plane was late to the demonstration according to this link:
http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44320
Somebody may have already posted this, but if not, there you are.
from the video link there are no more than 200 people
more than 800 are viewing