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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“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.” –Spider Robinson
The icing on the Copenhagen cake for me would be, if when the delegates are leaving for the airport, someone steps in front of Mugabe as he is about to enter his car and tells him that as the conference is now over the travel ban is back in force and he can’t leave.
MORE GLOBAL WARMING PROOF and the FINAL SOLUTION
Everytime I get close to a beautiful lady, I begin to breathe faster and exhale increased amounts of CO2.
I also get a feeling of increasing warmth, globally, all over my body.
That must be simple proof that increasing CO2 causes global warming.
I have experienced it personally. That’s all the proof I need.
Separating men and women into northern and southern hemispheres should solve this part of the global warming issue. Also the one child per family solution is facilitated. Even better, zero offspring, a probable outcome of this action, will lower the carbon levels even faster. Carbon problem over.
I want 5 minutes at the podium in Copenhagen. Send ME a check.
If you really want to know what is going on give very heave weight to the statement and don’t dismiss it as an old cliche.
Follow The Money!
The money changers first commandment;
You Scratch My Back I’ll Scratch Your Back.
Would this be an “Anti-climatic irony” as well?
OT, but related to Copenhagen:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/leaked-document-says-world-will-warm-three-degrees-20091218-l110.html
I’d suggest Bill McKibben read up on one or two things regarding CO2.
@ur momisugly genezeien (12:55:49) : Thanks for correcting the Vitamin D blooper.
I knew I should have checked before posting and not relied on a faulty memory.
To substantiate the sled dog story, here is a reference to an expedition where eating the liver of sled dogs caused problems (also due to vitamin A):
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Australian_Antarctic_Expedition
vukcevic (14:58:25) :
That looks like another bear to me… but the same idea.
How about this from UEA
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media
“UEA has a reputation for innovation and diversity of expertise. Since it was founded in 1963, UEA has broken the mould in a number of areas, from creative writing to environmental sciences, in which it continues to lead the field. But our media profile goes far wider than that, with high profile work undertaken across all of our four faculties.”
I think they got it right with creative writing. And the profile is high enough.
I am wishing on a cosmic particle that Svensmark, from Copenhagen, gets next years Nobel.
So, the US is promising $100 billion to “developing” countries for a climate deal!
Let’s see, the government of the US of A will have to borrow that money from the Chinese and then give it back to them. This isn’t very smart, if you Yanks don’t mind this Canadian saying.
[Political side bar] When is your current government going to wake up to the fact that the US is broke and throwing money around willy-nilly is dumb[/Political side bar]
Pete of Perth (15:13:32) :
Chokenhagen….. it’s all about to come to nothing. Oh well, maybe they can organise another grouphug somewhere else on this planet…
Try the G8/G20 summit in Canada.
The Prime Minister identified four
areas to move the agenda forward: global economy, climate change, development and democratic
governance. A broad and diverse coalition of Canadian civil society organizations calls on Canada to seize
this opportunity by putting poverty eradication, economic recovery for all and environmental justice at the
centre of the international agenda.1 Fair and durable solutions, grounded in the application of human rights
standards, must underscore the obligations of states to people who live in deep poverty and insecurity. We
look forward to working with government, and with Canadians on promoting a new model of globalization
that is socially responsible, economically sustainable and environmentally just.
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/sites/default/files/G8-Platform-civil-society-EN.pdf
How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus
The East Anglia emails are just the tip of the iceberg. I should know.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704398304574598230426037244.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
AndrewWH (15:42:00) :
The icing on the Copenhagen cake for me would be, if when the delegates are leaving for the airport, someone steps in front of Mugabe as he is about to enter his car and tells him that as the conference is now over the travel ban is back in force and he can’t leave.
That I would love to see – however, not holding my breath… – after all, all the delegates are there to “save the world”.
I’m an angry socialist because the socialist fools in copenhagen are ruining the “party” and the “country” with their nonsense.
What I dont understand is why the Tories and assorted Right parties are’nt as angry as I am for the same reason: Prince Charles, Gov. Schwarzenegger, David Cameron MP, etc…
Here is a funny thread at Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/12/17/where-are-all-you-climate-deniers-coming-from/
Re: Plato’s posting of the Blackburn/Markey discussion:
Markey, in amongst his glib, unreferenced comments such as “… the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas and the Alps…” [agreed, but some aren’t and the question is why] holds up a large tome titled “Climate Change 2007”.
He then goes on to claim “Thousands of scientists put together the definitive study on this issue. The climate change study done by all of the scientists of the world. And there they actually considered the [Climategate] emails – the subject of the emails – and they dismissed those concerns”
Isn’t it about time reporters and others who are involved in these debates held the proponents to account for their statements at the time they make them? ‘Definitive study’, ‘all of the scientists of the world’, a 2007 document that considered the Climategate emails that were only made public in late 2009.
Each of these comments and many others by Markey and other warmists such as Gore, are allowed to be placed into the record and, for those not following closely enough, are remembered as they relate to catastrophic events. Unfortunately, television shows have time limits and need to keep the entertainment value up or they lose viewers, hence investigative questioning is rare.
As strange as it sounds, that vast and enraged crowd of snow people are not protesting global warming. They are protesting the prospect of coal mining becoming more expensive, due to carbon taxes.
You see, snowmen and snow women cannot see without “two eyes made out of coal,” and carbon taxes could lead to mass blindness, if coal becomes too expensive.
It just goes to show you how the law of unintended consequences hits everyone, even snow people. Who would ever dream taxing coal could lead to snow-blindness?
Uh-oh, “The cable car is moving again”, after an “unexpected stop” Wednesday, according to executive secretary Ivo De Boer, and is now on its way up to the “summit” of global leaders of the conference.
Here’s hoping the little cable car that could, can’t. Wait – is that a wheel I see flying down the hill?
History is written by the Victors, it has been said. Let’s hope that Copenhagen 2009 is not remembered for the unusually balmy Nordic December evenings that finally proved just how wrong the contrarian, climate ‘denialists’ really were!
I hope that I’m 180 degrees wrong but there’s so much pride, power and politics invested in AGW that guarantees the table is rigged to produce the outcome that was planned!
Monckton shoved by UN police thugs. Knocked unconscious.
http://sppiblog.org/news/is-the-european-police-state-going-global
E.M.Smith (11:26:02) : “Also, if you eat the liver it has very high levels of vitamin D: Enough to kill you!”
It’s the Vitamin A, not D. Inuit are/were careful about eating polar bear, seal, and dog livers for that reason.
Decades ago my college nutrition prof mentioned that during a lecture on vitamins. I also recall a scene in the 1985 TV miniseries “The Last Place on Earth”, when explorer Roald Amundsen tells his companions not to eat a dog’s liver: “Never eat what a dog won’t eat.”
In case anyone is wondering what this issue is really about…
http://www.breitbart.tv/flag-waving-communists-socialists-march-in-copenhagen-to-stop-global-warming/
Haha.
I couldn’t possibly understand just about anything that man was saying, but I am sure he meant “the science is unsettling”.