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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And now, send in the trolls.
A few phrases and wordings related to the COP15 fiasco…
please add more…
“U.N. CLIMATE CHIEF PACHAURI and CARBON TRADING
A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.”
http://www.matador94.nl/global-climate-related/u-n-climate-chief-pachauri-cashes-in-on-tata-owned-corus-carbon-credits
Is this story verifiable?
“”” E.M.Smith (11:26:02) :
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… ) “””
I take it that you have an ample supply of translucent hollow fur to make whizz bang steelhead flies out of. Don’t tell me they eat the fur too.
When it comes to bears of the polar persuasion; I believe in getting them before they get me.
As it seems to be a bit dodgy to eat polar bear bits, does anybody know of any safety issues regarding the consumption of penguins?
http://i34.tinypic.com/2qk8e38.jpg
john
I was going to go with the teeth and claws as being the killer.
ROM
Just to set the numbers straight:
This exact moment Denmark consumes 4542MW electricity
3562MW of which is produced in central powerplants (coal)
1029MW in decentral powerplants (Oil, garbage, straw)
1441MW by wind turbines
I’m a convinced skeptic but suddenly I’m worried. If we let the climate get any hotter all those cute snowmen will die!
Frostbite may have been a better teacher for the reporters locked outside than anyone they might have heard inside.
Ken (11:04:17) :
It’s snowing…in Denmark…in December. Why are you posting this exactly? Just makes skeptics look stupid.
Uh Ken–
Not only do you lack a sense of humor, but you are geogrphically challenged. Copenhagen is on a spit of land basically sitting in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Hence, Copenhagen has a maritime climate, it is not a frigid climate, especially in December. December average high is about 39F (3C) average low about 32F (0C). Very similar to Glasgow, a little cooler than Seattle. Skeptics can read a map, how about you giving it a try?
Cheers
At the next IPCC forum the gatekeepers will rename snow to
crystallized-dihydroxy-monoxide. LOL
oh dear! australia’s ex-PM john howard on neil cavuto immediately says what we need to do to battle global warming is to go nuclear.
cavuto tries to get him to consider it’s all a hoax, but howard says sceptics can’t argue we should go nuclear. i’m about to puke.
Not to change the subject too much, but what’s the latest from data analysis of temperatures from South America and Africa? I hear grumblings that those datasets have been fudged too!
Environmentalists are nearly always *against* things, and it doesn’t take much to morph from dislike or disapproval to anger, especially if you’ve convinced yourself that nearly everyone else is ignorant and selfish. I’ve found that people who are working *for* something are usually more fun to be around. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone’s done a study on this, somewhere.
If CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS , or MSNBC covers Climategate, will anybody notice?
Here is a story (in Norwegian) about some alarmists who made a 500kg polar bear from a block of ice on Svalbard, and took it to Copenhagen to let it melt during the COP15 conference, apparently to make some kind of point.
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/klima/1.6858055
“The polar bear has long been the symbol of climate change and global warming. This made the choice easy for artist Olav Storø, who made the ice sculpture. The hope is that the bear from the north in a silent way shall speak the cause of the climate to important people.
The bear says everything without a word. I hope the message is received, says Storø.”
“The Ice sculpture is to be placed at the entrance of the church of our lady at the town hall plaza in Copenhagen”
“The participants of the climate meeting will see a bear sweating and disappearing. – When the politicians sit in Copenhagen and speak nice words in big, fancy buildings, the bear will be standing and melting and it tells its story in every drop of water running off.”
TV
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/188303
I have not seen pictures of it in Copenhagen, but I guess the bear must be doing just fine, considering the weather there.
Gore Effect with an Obama bonus!
To: Stephen (13:16:26) :
Dear Stephen,
Please provide an authoritative citation. Are you citing to capacity? or actual generation usage?
Denmark is at 20%+ wind capacity, but because the wind doesn’t blow all of the time, wind generation utilization is a fraction of total capacity (25%?). Denmark therefore is an importer of excess Swedish nuke generated electricity to meet peak demand.
Thanks
I’m waiting for the lipstick to come out so they can apply it this pig of a conference—wait for the “Eureka” announcement that they all agree to meet later… sometime… somewhere… promise. And we’ll bring some money if the Chinese do.
Thanks WUWT, this post has made my day.
It gives me a lovely warm glow to see that the CAGW fools are being shown by our climate who is the real Daddy. To complete my unexpected Christmas present, I’d like the airport to be closed and a large solar CME erupt and take out all the power.
Perhaps there really is a Santa Claus?
As someone on another thread said, “it’s too big to fail.” Too many have their paws in this enormous honey pot to let a little snow flurry interfere with their agenda. Here Dr. Tim Ball spills the beans on climategate and more (1st of 5, see there for rest).
No wonder they hate him.
More carbon emissions since they will need to run those limos longer to get them all warm and cozy before our “elected” and “unelected” representatives step out to move around town. They certainly don’t need anything to remind them that it is getting colder and not warmer… that could be inconvenient to sit on cold leather seats.
To NK (13:55:36) :
Sorry, should have been more verbose.
Go to http://www.energinet.dk , click on the green map of Denmark in the upper right corner, under the text “Elsystemet lige nu”.
A Flash popup should come up, showing the current electricity usage, production, import and export.
On a sidenote: I am Danish and know all about our import of Swedish (and German) nuke-power. About 30 years ago our politicians agreed that nuclear energy should not be part of Danish electricity policy. So instead we buy it from neighboring countries. The public opinion has changed since, and some surveys show that the Danes are now pro-nuclear.
IIRC,
An Arctic expedition was found many years ago, all dead in a tent. Their dogs were dead and gone. The expedition apparently hadn’t been able to move and died there. Speculation was that they had eaten a polar bear uncooked and trichinosis had set in, debilitating them all. They died from trich and/or froze to death.
Tenuc (13:59:12) :
part of your wish could come true… there is a small CME coming our way… check it out at Space Weather. http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=16&month=12&year=2009
The latest news is that it’s getting even HOTTER than we thought!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6835224/Copenhagen-climate-conference-Leaked-UN-document-shows-deal-could-still-lead-to-catastrophic-global-warming.html
5.4F? It IS worse than we thought!