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.
Theo Goodwin asks if anyone remembers a famous person from Mt Ida?
Sir, are you referring to… Lon Warneke (“the Arkansas Hummingbird“), a pennant-winning baseball pitcher? Pro BASS fisherman Mark Davis?
Bubba Clinton is from Hope.
David, the corn and wheat has come in better than expected and the price for these commodities have dropped rather sharply. There is some reduced demand also.
TheGoodLocust says:
September 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm (Edit)
I’d like to point out that the Gore Effect article was created by WUWT’s very own Mark Nutley – before he got banned. 🙁
[Reply: There is no Mark Nutley listed on the relatively short WUWT list of banned commentators. ~dbs, mod.]
I started and added most of the material to the earlier Gore Effect page in 2008 which got deleted by the Wiki HotBots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gore_effect
Great to see this newer page has survived the onslaught. We should get some images up there.
Someone up there must have a great sense of humour, and He’s a skeptic too. Cannot be Gaia, she’s a warmist and definitely would not support the Gore effect, hence it must be Him.
The first 8 months of the year have been confirmed to be the second coldest this century (ok, 11 years, but we should be dying of the heat according to Algorean prophecies). September is giving us a (global?) the Al Gore effect while we are being plunged into a La Niña phase.
Oh global warming, where have thou gone?
LOL, have a look at this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110913/world/qaeda-leader-prays-for-bitter-cold-us-winter.384580
DN says:
September 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm
… shouldn’t we be abandon [sic] our unjustified focus on carbon dioxide and instead start looking at capping Gore’s emissions if we want to stop climate change?
Somebody’s got to say it: Wouldn’t it have been a better idea if his father had had his emissions capped?
via SRHQ.NOAA: http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/conus.php
Huge difference in the national maps perhaps?
Ed Mertin says:
September 15, 2011 at 12:29 am
I was thinking of the mythical person “Charley Weaver” who was created by the actor Clif Arquette. Charley Weaver was a staple of TV in the Fifties and he always talked about being from “Mt Idy.” Here are a few words about Charley Weaver:
“In 1959, Arquette accepted Paar’s invitation to perform on Paar’s NBC Tonight Show. Arquette depicted the character of “Charley Weaver, the wild old man from Mount Idy.” He would bring along, and read, a letter from his “Mamma” back home. This characterization proved so popular that Arquette almost never again appeared in public as himself, but nearly always as Charley Weaver, complete with his squashed hat, little round glasses, rumpled shirt, broad tie, baggy pants, and suspenders.”
According to the Weather Underground, International Falls, MN has smashed the record for coldest this early in the season.
Previous record this early in the season 24F/-4C
Previous record for entire month of September 20F/-7C
September 15, 2011 19F/-7C
Have a nice day. Now back to our regularly scheduled “reality.”
Todd says:
September 15, 2011 at 7:29 am
OK Todd…repeat after me…
“Record cold temperatures are NOT inconsistent with global warming …”
“Record cold temperatures are NOT inconsistent with global warming …”
“Record cold temperatures are NOT inconsistent with global warming …”
“Record cold temperatures are NOT inconsistent with global warming …”
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/sarc
(BTW, we may see some record cold temps Friday evening here in New Hampshire…stay tuned)
I beg to differ about “Him”. It’s women who have a cold arse. Might “God” be female and Gaia/Gia/Giea/Sp be male? Afterall, it is the male who seeks out warm and humid environments while we women sit in front of the frig cooling our hot flashes.
OK, yeah I remember Charley Weaver… he dressed up like Mrs. Butterworth and was really, really a funny man. That brings back memories… but wasn’t there something about a Mt. Idy in Ohio?
Pamela, go for a dip in the creeks…
Maybe young fellers seek the heat. But I sure as heck don’t, a ding dang 7ft alligator was checking me out while I was swimming near Midway, GA down by Savannah. Guess I’m toooo hot to handle and maybe he/she could sense it. I have pictures!
Ohhhh, I’m such a DUNDERHEAD! There is one much sought after warm & humid environment, just ask Tammy… lol
A guy dies and the Devil greets him on his arrival in Hell (he’s a denier I guess):
Devil: So how do you like Hell so far?
Guy: I lived in New Orleans so this isn’t so bad.
Devil grumbles and walks away, turns up the heat and comes back in a few years.
Devil: So, how do you like here now?
Guy: I went to Viet Nam once and they tried to kill me there. I’m already dead, so I can handle this.
Devil is really pissed now. ‘what can I do? I know, I’ll turn the heat all the way off!’
The Devil returns a few years later:
Devil: How do you like it now smart guy?
Guy (shivering with ice everywhere): What happened, did Al Gore just show up?
I am glad to see that people are being exposed to these spiritual warfare hypocrisies now, but it has not extended to being irresponsible with treating the environment well. As soon as it is viable for us to do the right thing and change our economic structure, people will willingly follow. Unfortunately, those who set the agendas place too much emphasis on busy work and false perceptions of scarcity/short-selling that personal development and creativity are often displaced. Gore is old rhetoric.
That was great, Gary, I hope you’ve posted that on some of the Gore-a-thons. This thing is going to page 3 quick!
This event was far reaching. A general web of cold fronts and short waves ended up hitting most of CONUS. There has got to be widespread crop damage.
[Reply: There is no Mark Nutley listed on the relatively short WUWT list of banned commentators. ~dbs, mod.]
No, you misunderstand, he was banned from wikipedia. I have seen Mark post here semi-regularly.