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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Oh good, a “weather is not climate” post to muscle in on.
Here in New Hampshire, I was a bit startled to see it was 5.6°F (-15°C) this morning with gusty winds. Either measurement is no surprise, but for a temperature that cold in December, we generally need calm air and radiational cooling. Well, there’s always radiational cooling on clear nights, but on calm, clear nights we get a thin air inversion with the cold temps near the ground.
So I looked back in my records since 2003 for mornings below 10F and wind gusts over 10 mph (16 kph, 11.5 knots?) and found one other occurence – in 2008 on Dec 8th. Three days later it was 58F (15C) and a few days after that we had one of the worst ice storms in southern NH and north central MA history. Some coworkers had no power for 10-14 days.
Life was easier before Global Cooling started. 🙂
Murphy’s Law just making a visit to the summit.
We all know Murphy. This time he is welcome.
(by some of us anyway.)
@ur momisugly Michael Where did they get that tripe about the GHG and the cooling upper atmosphere? The suns radiation in the UV is down 6% of recent. Hence the stratospheric cooling.
Ron Bowerman (11:02:24) :
Yes, God’s sense of humor: He waited for the leaders to be in transit before the blizzard hit!
Oh yeah – The Irony!
Re: Michael (11:51:18) – upper atmosphere cooling
“This same cooling effect is expected to happen (somewhat counterintuitively) as carbon dioxide concentrations increase from emissions at Earth’s surface. So understanding the natural variability of this layer is important to detecting any changes from carbon dioxide increases.”
…Heating or cooling it doesn’t matter with these people it’s all down to CO2 (anthropogenic of course)
Cheers
>i>UK Sceptic (11:06:38) : I am actually legally obliged to fund this poisonous bilge. Maybe this will get some traction:
A wonderful example of tangling ‘agencies’ in their own red tape. I would suggest adding an ‘escrow account’ where you DO put the license fees (interest accruing to you, to be returned to you if the courts do not absolve the BBC, but to be payed to them only on condition that The Crown finds them innocent in court). Then you can not be charged with willful failure to pay. You have paid, just to an account they can’t touch, pending a court ruling. Just doing your duty, dontcha know…
BTW, I’ve often wondered: Why don’t you just get a large high res computer monitor and watch internet video instead? Much larger selection. Better stuff. Not a TV, so no license ought to apply…
Just a thought…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtO9USOeWY&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]
Socialists are angry because that care about the poor only half as much as they hate the rich.
It’s long time ago when the Socialists even cared about poor, even when it was only half as much…
Now the New Left declares their interest only in minorities of any kind, illegal immigrants and Mother Gaia. Their original poor and working-class electorate can go to hell together with the rich.
How many “Nobel Prize” winners are at this meeting?
I would be surprised if it doesn’t turn into the “Storm of the Century”.
Charles. U. Farley. (11:50:22)
Here in Solna just outside/inside Stockholm, Sweden we had 50-100 m visibility in very heavy snowfall around 11:30 CET , supercell? snowshowers,
and still, if I’ve mentioned it before…my neighbour’s name is…Blizzard…IKYN!!
I guess you can get my address via that info…!
Here’s what we have to put up with in Canada. Talk about a leap in logic. Putzuski thinks GW is the same issue as slavery. What an idiot!
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/17/suzuki-s-latest-nutbar-statement.aspx
Oh the weather outside is frightful, / But the fire* is so delightful, / And since we’ve no place to go, / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! …
*Hot air in COP15 centre
Yes, it’s just weather not climate obviously, but it proves is that God has a sense of humour….
it’s rare any politician from right or left speaks about climategate and, when they do, as below, only politico blog reports it. nice.
GOP to Obama: Investigate ‘climategate’
In a letter to Obama, Reps. Jerry Lewis, the top Republican on the house Appropriations Committee, and Mike Simpson, ranking member of the interior and Environment subcommittee, say that funding in the 2010 budget should be used to investigate whether “illegitimate scientific evidence and research” was used to craft Democratic climate legislation.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30739.html
when u remember rightwing governments in copenhagen are at least as pro-AGW as so-called leftist ones, u should realise it’s not a party thing.
the accusation out of russia yesterday was barely reported in the MSM. a couple of newspapers in the UK and that was it. and that included a blog on UK telegraph, will heaven, mocking the accusations. climategate has given us explosive lead headlines almost every day, yet the MSM has virtually ignored it, or attempted to downplay/discredit what it has revealed.
and now the French news agency has a new spin:
AFP: US deniers behind ‘Climategate,’ experts allege
By Deborah Jones
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j0GZu6QOrVCc5QXIq-_08E7ru66Q
The funny thing about all of this is, if it were a conference on combating global cooling, they would have signed the all of the necessary agreements in 2 days. Done.
Jim Reeves, “The Blizzard” Lyrics:
“There´s a blizzard comin´on how I´m wishin´I was home
For my pony´s lame and he can´t hardly stand
Listen to that northern sigh if we don´t get home we´ll die
But it´s only seven miles to Mary Anne it´s only seven miles to Mary Anne
You can bet we´re on her mind for it´s nearly suppertime
And I´ll bet thre´s hot biscuits in the pan
Lord my hands feel like they´re froze and there´s a numbness in my toes
But it´s only five more miles to Mary Anne it´s only five more miles to Mary Anne
That wind´s howlin´and it seems mighty like a woman´s screams
And we´d best be movin´faster if we can
Dan just think about that barn with that hay so soft and warm
For it´s only three more miles to Mary Anne it´s only three more miles to Mary Anne
Dan get up your ornery cuss or you´ll be the death of us
I´m so weary but I´ll help you if I can
All right Dan perhaps it´s best that we´ll just stop awhile and rest
For it´s still a hundred yards to Mary Anne it´s still a hundred yards to Mary Anne
Late that night the storm was gone and they found him there at dawn
He had made it bu he couldn´t leave ol´Dan
Yes they found him there on the plains his hands froze to the reins
He was just a hundred yards from Mary Anne
He was just a hundred yards from Mary Anne”
Enjoy!!!
Yup, first snow of the year here today, a cold ride home on the old Matchless from work to my home 10 miles away. Its staying on the ground now too.
I do hope Seth Borenstein has to queue again for seven hours in the snow before he gets the chance to genuflect before his Obamaness.
BTW, it’s the vitamin A in seals’ and polar bears’ livers that is the killer, not vitamin D http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257872/
Those snowpeople look pretty angry.
Just a quickie – I posted the first part of the Monckton video – the other bits are much more entertaining/useful.
Well worth a watch – one hour in total.
They are pretty lucky with their amounts of snow. Over here in the Netherlands about 700km south west of Copenhagen and in an even milder climate we do had much more snow from the same weathersystem: up to 40cm in one night blowing to much bigger heights. Public transportation was halted, and we had the worst traffic jams this morning in history. So they could have worse but still it is priceless. We have interviews over here on television that are taken outside in Copenhagen. It is so funny to see those climate experts being interviewed and talking about global warming while they can hardly move their lips because of the cold…
They are all terribly distraught and angry about things.
As Heinlein put it, Hell hath no fury like a pacifist.
An interesting letter was printed in the Daily Telegraph this morning.
I can’t find a link for it on their web site but this is what was printed…
/Quote/
SIR – Douglas McCormack (Letters, December 14) says that global warming isn’t responsible for making the Carteret Islands in the South Pacific uninhabitable. Mr McCormack justified his argument by referring to my 2007 paper on decadal variability in the rate of average global sea level change.
While I don’t dispute the rates of change that are quoted, I disagree that my results either prove or disprove the idea that human-induced global warming is responsible for the sea-level rise that is displacing the inhabitants of the islands.
Moreover, it is not logical to say that because the paper found no evidence of an acceleration in global sea level that the most likely reason for the flooding of the islands is due to plate tectonics.
The point of the journal article was to show that global changes in sea level do not proceed smoothly and that there are periods of higher rates of increase along with periods of lower, or even occasional negative change. The paper also shows that the global average sea level has been rising for more than a century, and continues to rise.
Sea levels that coastal dwellers experience are affected by local land movements. These movements include the recovery of the Earth’s surface from the deforming weight of ice sheets during the last Ice Age, subsidence due to water extraction, earthquakes and regional plate tectonics. These effects are carefully taken into account when we calculate the global and regional sea-level changes, but these effects may add or subtract from the relative sea level experienced at the coast.
As far as I am aware, there is no evidence for or against local land movements in the Carteret Islands. So while this effect cannot be discounted as making the islanders’ problems worse, local land movements can only be seen as a regional modification of the rise in global sea level.
Dr Simon Holgate
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Liverpool
/unquote/
iurockhead (12:14:30) :
“Sweet, sweet schadenfreude…”
More like Schadenfraud .
The last paragraph in this story seems to be inspired by Michael Mann, except that one would have to substitute “hide the decline” instead of “explain” in Michael’s case.
http://www.cphpost.dk/climate/91-climate/47767-climate-art-gaff.html
Seven metres. That is how much global water levels will rise if the ice in Greenland melts. In connection with the climate meeting, sculptor Jens Galschioet has hung flashing red lights seven metres up in trees and on lamp posts throughout Copenhagen.
The idea was to illustrate a prospective water level rise if the ice melts away in Greenland. Yet, somewhere along the line, he made a few incorrect calculations.
‘Technically and pedagogically it is a sound idea. The problem is that they are hanging at incorrect heights by the city lakes, where they currently sit at 11,34 metres’, said architect Ole Oerslev.
The city lakes are already 5,89 metres above sea level, so the flashing lights should have been put up at 69 centimetres height.
‘The rest of the lights put up around the city and out by the Bella Center are in the correct elevation. We wanted to display something downtown as well and even though we knew that the lights should have been at 69 centimetres, we didn’t really feel it looked like much. So we cheated a bit and decided to explain if anyone found out’, explained Galschioet.
It is cold here in Britain, I wasn’t going to comment but I saw this below on the Tom Nelson blog, these loonies are everywhere.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/17/climate-talks-held-hostage/
Somebody should explain to these kooks that cold is the real killer.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/cold-f04.shtml
Britain is poorly prepared for a real chill……. we all should embrace natural warming, is this cold weather in Denmark a harbinger of things to come especially now the Met Office has forecast a mild and wet winter?
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p0pm20kg075m7453/