From the “weather is not climate” department, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Hey, where is everybody?
In related news, global warming protesters are gathering in large numbers…
(Thanks to Tom Fuller for the pix)
Ironic headline of the decade:
Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
By Christian Wienberg in Bloomberg News
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
“Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”
Delegates from 193 countries have been in Copenhagen since Dec. 7 to discuss how to fund global greenhouse gas emission cuts. U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive before the summit is scheduled to end tomorrow.
Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn’t had a white Christmas for 14 years, under the DMI’s definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).
DMI defines a white Christmas as 90 percent of the country being covered by at least 2 centimeters of snow on the afternoon of Dec. 24.
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While I’ve never put much faith in his forecasts due to the overhyped way he presents them, in this case Piers Corbyn was right. See his November 30th forecast for Copenhagen here.
While his main start of snow was a bit late, he predicted then:
14th-16/17th Dec will have more snow showers which will turn heavy with biting cold winds.
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Polar Bears:A Harvestable Resource (10:37:13) :
Why are these ‘caring,sharing’ Socialists always so ANGRY!?
You know, I’ve wondered about that myself. All the way from Stalin to He Who Shall Not Be Named from the German National State Socialist Party and on to the modern neo-socialists: They are all terribly distraught and angry about things.
Something in the socialist message seems to attract meddlers, busy-bodies, and angry self-flagellants. Oh, and folks with a doom and destruction fetish. They really hate the message that “We are not running out of stuff and we can use technology to give everyone a good modern life style.”
They come at you with knives and pitchforks if you have a positive message like that. I know, I’ve been stating that message for about 30+ years now and have the scars to show for it 😉
(BTW, Club of Rome, Meadows et. al.: How’s them computer fantasy “Limits to Growth” working out for you? Did we run of of Natural Gas in 1980 like you “projected”? Oh, we now have a 100 year supply from technology advance? Who knew … And that population bomb doom? Oh, we now support more folks with less land… Well, surely we ran out of oil on schedule? Oh, “enhanced recovery” techniques, new oil finding techniques and those pesky Saudis drilled a couple of more holes… Well, cheer up, maybe we’ll die for you next century… )
And now, send in the trolls.
I have this song stuck in my head now:
Send in the trolls,
there must be trolls,
…
(With apologies to professional clowns everywhere and for folks who love the original “Send in the Clowns”… )
BTW, if would be nice to have Dutch Canal skating on the “Weather is not Climate” watch list. I’m hoping for some great pictures of Dutch canal skates in, oh, February or so.
Finally, you have photo with what looks like devanagari script in it? Interesting source… Guess the India news delegation got stuck outside in the snow? 😉
Wonderful…simply wonderful…The gore-effect is in full swing….
The only thing wrong with the report is to call it a “blizzard”.
I guess…to some of the internationals from warmer climes who never see snow…it was.
Regardless, perfect timing! The Gore Effect in action once again.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
I live in Sussex, SE England – we’re forecast 8-10 inches of snow tonight.
Since I live 3 miles from the English Channel/at sea level and haven’t seen anything other than a sprinkle since I’ve lived here – this a bizarre.
We had the first serious cold snap last year when it dropped to -7 to -10 for many days. It normally never falls below zero or at worst -2/-3C.
It was so bad that I dug up a tree fern in my garden in the dead of night and it stayed in my downstairs bathroom for a month.
It’s also become noticeably less windy in the last 5 yrs – it was like living in a lighthouse during the equinoxes – now it is a rarity to experience days of gales.
Whatever is going on – its fairly recent and weird.
It’s snowing…in Denmark…in December. Why are you posting this exactly? Just makes skeptics look stupid.
REPLY: You have no sense of humor. -A
Joe (10:30:03)
Gore WAS there. I’m pretty sure – there was a vid showing how goons muscled him through without an interview.
LOL!
John Egan (10:50:08) :
Yes, in my spare time from doing physics I am also a witch, and I had ordered a blizzard for the leaders :).
Witching is appropriate for the global warming circus, they all think like Harry Potter and create realities in their computers believing they are executed in the real world.
In other words, the gods pay back for hubris. Let us hope they do not give us a little ice age.
Is it possible to get a warm, fuzzy feeling from looking at cold weather and snowmen? Seems to be happening here. 🙂
Slightly O/T
The BBC gets rid of the MWP:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dm7d5/Earth_The_Climate_Wars_Fightback/
The entire program is pure warmist propaganda and contains nothing but bias, half-truths, fudge and outrageous lies.
I am actually legally obliged to fund this poisonous bilge. Apologies if this has already been brought up on another thread.
Oh and did anyone mention that the Met Office’s winter forecast has been rubbished by Mama Nature in record time?
Oh no – it’s worse than we thought – again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/17/un-leaked-report-copenhagen-3c
I rather liked the irony of the URL 😀
Gore Effect strikes again.
I suspect the irony will be totally lost on them, after all it’s “only weather”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8418395.stm
“Heavy snowfall expected, BBC Weather centre says”
It’s beginning to look a lot like failure
Everywhere they go
paulhan (10:57:52) : I guess there won’t be any more jamborees of this kind for these peoples, their masters have just found them misfitted, not suited to job. They have totally failed, they will be replaced.
After all that CO2 they spewed at Copenhagen, they STILL couldn’t turn the snowfall into rain showers. 😉
“Zee ha?” 0:07 🙂
I think he said,
Watts up with that?
The BBC forecast says this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/35
Another forecast says this
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=DAXX0009
As of now that is.
ie the BBC confirms snow today but later it is ‘sunny intervals’
Intellicast says snow showers for Fri Sat and Sunday.
Is the the BBC who are deniers??
Oh and if you want a laugh and see how Brown led Al into a ‘broom cupboard’ instead of the way out then watch this
http://order-order.com/2009/12/17/an-inconvenient-turn/
and then wonder why they went in with their jackets buttoned up but came out unbuttoned! Eh?
Anna V.
What color Edsel would you like?
The lot is full. Take your pick.
And there will ALWAYS be more on order.
😉 😉 😉
@ur momisugly M White But Hadley assured me of an unusually mild winter this year…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMp7BJdfvZ0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Polar Bears:A Harvestable Resource (10:37:13) :
Oh, and when eating polar bear: ALWAYS cook the meat, trichinosis is a big problem in bear meat and eating raw polar bear can be lethal. Also, if you eat the liver it has very high levels of vitamin D: Enough to kill you! So don’t eat it unless you have a major vit D deficit and then only small amounts. But IIRC, the adrenal glands on the kidneys will give you vit C in an environment where it is otherwise a very rare thing. Split it equally between all party members to avoid scurvy.
(Don’t ask how I came to know this… it was a long time ago and I had an interest in cold places, stories about them, and the Eskimo Wisdom… I hope I got it right… )
And low slow moist cooking will be best. Think “pulled pork” or “18 hour brisket”. Even stew works well. But don’t do the ‘steak thing’ unless you have really good teeth… or someone to pre-chew it for you in the traditional way…
So ‘harvestable’ yes, but there is a reason Caribou were preferred…
@paulhan
‘Next year could be very different, however. It is being held in Mexico city during an El Nino year,’
Funny, according to NASA, El Niño picked up pace this summer already, this year is also El Niño year. But of course this concerns the Atlantic Ocean for this year, next year they’ll just delete everything.
UK Sceptic (11:06:38) :
I am actually legally obliged to fund this poisonous bilge.
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Maybe this will get some traction:
http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees
Sorry, but I can’t help thinking of that scene in “Day After Tomorrow” when the hero meets the eccentric climate scientist outside a climate conference in (India??) and it’s snowing…proving sudden climate change…
Mike