You know, sometimes coincidences are just too strange and funny to ignore. Here’s the low temperature forecast map from NOAA produced today, for overnight low temperatures during the time that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project gets into its full swing. It starts at 8PM EST/5PM PST. Chill baby, chill:
Source: http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/images/conus/MinT1_conus.png
And it gets worse, see below. For anyone who doubts the Gore Effect, I’ll point out that it has its own Wikipedia entry, which says:
The Gore Effect is a term used with various meanings relating to Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. In one use, the term is a humorous concept suggesting a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and meetings associated with global warming, with particular emphasis on events attended by Gore. The phrase has also been used to describe Gore’s impact in raising global warming as a public issue, and in other ways related to Al Gore.
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The Toronto based national newspaper Globe and Mail defined the term in 2007 quoting a user’s submission to the online Urban Dictionary website as “the phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_effect
Look at the forecast for the upper midwest from Dr. Roy Spencer’s WeatherStreet website:
Lot’s of 20’s and 30’s in the upper Mississippi Valley.
Thats some chiller gore.
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David, UK says:
September 14, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Not only is there a God, but He apparently has a sense of humor, too! Remember how cold it got down in CanCun last December during the big Climate shindig? People had brough all sorts of beach wear to enjoy the weather and it was miserably cold and rainy, too! Very few ventured onto the beach as a consequence. As I recall, it set record low temperatures for that period.
If Gore were to ever pass away, what would be the immediate impact on global temperatures? Or can be we be fairely sure he’s just a local weather phenomenon?
Well, maybe Mark Nutley invented it – but I was already thinking it!
Here is the ultimate Al Gore effect. “Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted”
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/09/major-drop-in-solar-activity-predicted-little-ice-age
In addition, all we have is tropical storm Maria in the Atlantic. It’s staying well away from the U.S. But he can blame the Texas drought or the east coast flooding on global warming. There’s always bad weather somewhere in the world, and it’s always global warming’s fault.
I am glad someone is focusing on this, a month late. See that 40 degree mark in St. Louis. That is an October low in mid-September. I have not seen such a low since moving to St. Louis in ’71. That 40 degree mark extends to Mt. Ida, Arkansas. Anyone remember the famous person from Mt. Ida. That is a late October temperature.
Spencer has the temperatures lower.
In the words of the MSM, we are looking at “Thousand Year Lows.” I wonder if the running dogs of Goreism will even mention the temperatures?
Wikipedia is a joke run by AGW – see this quote from their “Greenhouse Effect” page:
“If an ideal thermally conductive blackbody was the same distance from the Sun as the Earth is, it would have a temperature of about 5.3 °C” – it doesn’t even claim “average”.
So why do NASA claim the moon reaches ~123 C during the lunar day ? Must be “greenhouse gases” !
This is clear evidence, yet again, of the lengths believers will go to in order to obfuscate rational debate. What a joke – but we in Australia are about to have a “control” tax, sorry, carbon “price” not a tax – stuffed down our throat by a government which stated categorically we wouldn’t have one about one year ago during an election.
An example of the “Gore effect” or simply totalitarianism by stealth ?
The Gore effect is a lot stronger than people give credit……
…temperatures started dropping the day he lost to Bush
Lean Grey Wolf
There’s nothing new in that.
Michael Mann has proved it time and again; so has Phil Jones.
All based on models.
The great thing about models is they say what you tell the to accept.
The great thing about peer reviewers is they accept what you tell the to accept.
We all know that global warming causes cold weather.
If it is warm, the cause is CO2 and the problem is one of climate
If it is cold, the problem is one of weather, not climate
This is probably Gaia’s revenge on ManBearPig.
ManBearPig is making money on depriving the plants of CO2. Gaia knows that CO2 is good for plants, and is therefore angry. This is Gaias way of telling ManBearPig to repend..
It has been mentioned before by others here, but I cant hold it back; Can you imagine if Gaia decides to use the ultimate anti-ManBearPig weapon today; Katla…..100 year eruption…..
dallas says:
September 14, 2011 at 1:21 pm
-3C on Sept 14 is not inconsistent with global warming.
Nothing is inconsistent with anthropogenic global warming theory. That’s the beauty of it. If it can’t be falsified in principle, it obviously can’t be false. Therefore it is true.
If a formal system is consistent with both A and ~A (negation of proposition A), then it is said to be independent of A. That is, if AGW (a.k.a. “climate disruption”) theory as a formal system is consistent with both floods and droughts, it is independent of precipitation. If it is consistent with both heat waves and cold spells, it is independent of temperature. Similarly, it can be shown to be independent of each and every weather phenomena, that is, it’s independent of facts. It clearly belongs to the category of a priori synthetic propositions.
“That [explanation of a couple of points] leaves only the question of how knowledge of synthetic a priori propositions is possible. This question is exceedingly important, Kant maintains, as all important metaphysical knowledge is of synthetic a priori propositions.”.
Here we go. The sphere of our metaphysical knowledge keeps expanding happily.
“the phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming.
Surely the phenomenon is simply an AL GORE RHYTHM …….
http://91.192.194.209/averagehourlytemp3.png <–A work in progress
certainly subdued today 😉
“Uncle Al the Warmists Pal” has had an effect on our side of the pond too, 8 celsius tonight and we still have our summer duvet on our bed. Let the shivering begin!
Is the corn crop in yet? The wheat crop?
When was the last time in snowed in September in the continental US? (Seriously, when was the last time it snowed?) Well, snow is in the forecast for Aspen, Colorado. That is the Al Gore effect in action.
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20110914/NEWS/110919921/1077&ParentProfile=1058
The Gore effect is as sure as the Madden curse. Already Peyton Hillis, who was on the cover of the latest (boring) Madden NFL game is off to a bad start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_NFL#Madden_Curse
I’ll be freezing my buns running the 200 mile Reach the Beach relay in New Hampshire (which goes through the night this Friday and Saturday). Thanks Al!
By the way, the CAGW crowd has developed a yearly ritual where in Spring – Summer, they say “[insert hot weather event, tornado, or hurricane] is yet more evidence of global warming!” while in the Fall – Winter, it becomes “[insert extreme cold weather event, major snow/ice storm] is NOT inconsistent with global warming!” Watch out for those “not inconsistents” while we freeze this weekend!
Our govt will ban Al Gore from Canada as sooon as 51% of those polled say AWG is BS. Of course this will take a few more months as conservatives and most other working people do not answer polls.
Posted it. Thank you!
The fact that it has it’s own Wiki entry is priceless.
Let’s tax Gore’s chilling footprint . . .
Poor Al Gore.
If he doesn’t persuade the nation that AGW (“Al’s Glo-bulI Warminating”) is real and serious, Cap-N-Tax won’t pass, the climate exchanges will fold, his wealth might dip below $50 million (oh, the horror — he might have to sell a mansion or his houseboat to make ends meet!) and -worst of all- people might start to laugh out loud when he takes the stage for another round of bloviating.
Boo. Hoo.
SuperGore should use his great powers for good and schedule his activities for July and August.
It’s started.. I predicted this a week ago:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/14/24-hours-of-gorepocrisy/#comment-738187
It’s the “Day After Tomorrow” starting.. Dennis Quaid waiting in the wings…..
I guess I’ll need to crank up the coal stove earlier than normal…
Eat your heart out, and my carbon credits, Al Baby……
Why–does Gore have an unusually woolly coat this year?
Oops–I should have phrased it more cleverly, thus:
Why–is Gore unusually woolly this year?