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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The polar bears can now move to Copenhagen, since all the polar ice has melted.
The ultimate test of The Gore Effect.
Hey, they can now conclude the conference on a successful note, having defeated global warming.
It’s a BS vs White Stuff spitting contest.
The snow is calling thier bluff.
E.M.Smith (11:02:34) :
“(BTW, Club of Rome, Meadows et. al.: How’s them computer fantasy “Limits to Growth” working out for you?”
Don’t forget that one of the computer runs showed that if we successfully addressed all the supply, social, and environmental problems we would run out of capital.
Have you been keeping up with the financial pages?
E.M.Smith (11:26:02) :
WUWT is a culinary resource too – now that’s made my day
*makes note to avoid polar bear liver pate*
There’s something very funny about the little snow men. It’s the expressions.
I’d like to know if the polar bear and other sculptures have melted yet. I’d like to see the bones they put inside that polar bear sclupture.
Just as Piers Corbyn forecast weeks ago!
You just KNOW that kids are going to be brainwashed to start making ‘snowbears’,don’t you!
‘Why are socialists so ANGRY?’
It’s usually that they had this dream that everyone would be as caring and sharing as they think they are. But they’re not, so they get ANGRY.
Thing is, they’re not always so caring and sharing themselves as you think. Status is real important for socialists, you know. Title and position, seniority and rank. All that stuff.
They’ve got to LOOK AFTER THOSE UNFORTUNATES you see.
Thing is, THOSE UNFORTUNATES also includes anyone who disagrees with them who they can crush. Once they’ve crushed you, the caring, sharing stuff comes back. But when you try to be independent or confront them, hell hath no fury like a socialist scorned. Wire tapping, accessing bank account details, destroying all activities, they’ll do it.
Control you see. It’s in their DNA.
But they need a mask of respectability to allow society to allow them to get it.
So they call themselves a socialist.
Not all socialists are like that.
But the angry ones usually are……
Ken (11:04:17) : It’s snowing…in Denmark…in December. Why are you posting this exactly?
Well, my guess is because, as the Masthead says, this site is dedicated to “nature, science, weather, climate change” and notice that weather comes ahead of ‘climate change’ on that list.
So a site dedicated to weather does a story about weather when the weather is a very funny thing due to the impact on the AGW folks who seemingly can’t figure out it’s cold even when they have to stand in the snow. That, dear Sirah, is a “hoot and a half”!
Just makes skeptics look stupid.
Tis not the skeptics, it’s the AGW cold deniers that are looking particularly stupid, especially in the snow… Oh, and folks who can’t figure out why a weather site run by a weatherman might cover a weather story. That’s a bit daft too. (If you will pardon my being blunt. I’d be more discrete, but, well, some folks don’t seem to catch subtile…)
REPLY: You have no sense of humor. -A
Something I would agree with completely. The sheer irony of folks chanting about doom from heat when frozen in the snow is priceless. Giving me chuckles all day long. They either “believed their own BS” and expected it to be warmer than in the past; or they didn’t think through what they were planning by checking out the weather ranges. Either one is just a thigh slapper… They ought to have booked it for Dawin … or Jakarta … or even Brasilia.
DC expecting a major snowstorm in coming days. Wonder if Obama will be able to fly out to the conference or be delayed because of the snow storm? Irony is a …..
Channel 4 news correspondent at Cop15 stated” despite the recent snow this year has been the warmest on record”.
Correspondents name is Peter Snow ( i kid you not!) is there any data to support his claim?
Ken (11:04:17)
Snow in December in Denmark is not that common. And, yes, it was a fairly substantial blizzard, though Copenhagen was much less affected than Jutland and Fyn. See here for details:
http://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/et-rigtigt-falck-vejr
Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically
http://www.livescience.com/space/091217-agu-earth-atmosphere-cooling.html
Just curious!
Denmark relies on wind turbines for it’s major power supplies.
They have to import power from Germany when calm weather sets in and give it away free to Sweden when they have an excess due to strong winds.
How do those wind turbines hold up operationally in snow and ice conditions, just when they need the maximum power output for heating and industry?
Germany right now probably has it’s generators running near full capacity due to the cold conditions and may not have much surplus capacity left to sell to Denmark
A blackout in Copenhagen would really set the seal on this whole farce.
philincalifornia (11:27:34) :
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
Excellent site! Thanks for the hat tip, Phil. 😀
snif, are we seeing the last of the Snowmen? Already having been reduced to a race of impotent midgets, are we content that soon another extinct species shall be remembered only in cynical proxy by the hoisting of “Frosties” by drunken Deniers responsible for the ineluctable destruction of Creation?
No, Citizens! Repeat with me now the sacred Mantra of Hansen: “I shall not rest until all glaciers are advancing!”
ANTI-CLIMATIC
Proof positive that this is not about climate, at all.
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/12/nore-proof-ecofascists-are-using-agw-to.html
ROM (11:52:21) :
A blackout in Copenhagen would really set the seal on this whole farce
May your wishes be fulfilled…
Vitamin D and polar bear livers: I had heard this as well (although I believe Vilhjalmur Stefansson (early 20th C polar explorer/anthropologist) wrote that the inuit could eat them in moderation.
There is a related story that if polar explorers, driven to extremes killed their sled dogs and ate them, if they ate the livers it was fatal. (This was used in the inspiration for a UK TV police story – fictional, but I think the inspiration was factual). This is because they would be eating the liver of a carnivore. The vitamin D in a carnivore liver would be far too concentrated to eat safely, as it tends to accumulate in the liver. The cows, sheep, pigs and chickens whose livers humans would normally eat (if at all) are of course not carnivores, so this is not a problem. (I have forgotten some of the biological detail here, but that’s the gist).
Remember kids, don’t eat your puppy’s liver what ever you do.
Trev (11:20:29)
“OK, World, just follow us. We know the way.”
LOL!
You can see an animated forecast here:
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/vejrkort.htm
See how the cold creeps down from Sweden. Even colder on Saturday.
Nedbor = precipitation
Sweet, sweet schadenfreude. I hope the airport is snowed in at the end of the conference.