It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on Wall Street” irony like this.
I notice Bill McKibben isn’t there. Strange how he talks a big game about climate and weather events becoming more extreme, but when the going gets tough… well you know. No mention of this comedic slap in the face by nature on the 350.org website.
Here’s the record statement from NOAA/NWS:
SXUS71 KOKX 300633 RER NYC RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 0221 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL SET AT CENTRAL PARK NY... A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 2.9 INCHES WAS SET AT CENTRAL PARK NY YESTERDAY...OCTOBER 29. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF TRACE SET IN 2002. ...RECORD OCTOBER SNOWFALL AMOUNT SET FOR CENTRAL PARK NY... CENTRAL PARK RECORDED 2.9 INCHES OF SNOWFALL ON OCTOBER 29 2011 SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN 1869...AN INCH OF SNOWFALL HAS NEVER BEEN RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. THE LAST TWO TIMES THAT MEASURABLE SNOW FELL IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER WAS...OCTOBER 21 1952 WITH 0.5 INCHES AND OCTOBER 30 1925 WITH 0.8 INCHES. THEREFORE...THIS BREAKS THE DAILY RECORD FOR SNOWFALL IN OCTOBER AND THE MOST SNOWFALL EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
The irony, it b-b-b-burns:
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Last time, thinking that AGW still had the A attached to it, they went to Copenhagen, where the A had dropped and the warmists froze in one of the worst global snowstarms the northern hemisphere ever saw. Even Obama had to abandon Copenhagen so as to avoid the then impending snow storms in the US.
So, following Copenhagen’s triple wammy debacle, the warmists chose a warm place in Mexico for their next money-burning, CO2 spouting ego-trips. They went to Cancun, thinking that the cold would not get them. But it did and the weather there went cold and wintry. So, for the next one, the went even more summery than Cancun: They have chosen Durban in December. Any bets about the weather in Durban during December?
I will probably get creamed for this but I am troubled the way that a site devoted to discussing the problems with “climate change” insanity has morphed into just another corner of the conservative echo chamber. Yes, the turn of events in New York was ironic but the vitriol directed against people who, climate silliness, has some good points, points that many Americans agree with, is the kind of stuff that Red State and NRO are for.
It’s not just OWS — there were folks absolutely devoting to downplaying Hurricane Irene’s impact on the Northeast. Other sane climate scientists noticed this and were also bothered.
Listen, I know that it’s an uphill battle to overcome the regnant orthodoxy and I know that the other side has treated people like Anthony abysmally. But stuff like this only makes it easier for them to lump the folks here with the cranky right, which, until recently, would have been outrageously unfair.
REPLY: Please note the tags: humor, satire
If it said politics, you’d certainly have a point. Don’t you think it is funny that the day they are to have a rally on “climate justice” they get an all-time record breaking snowstorm.? -Anthony
Their mission statement clearly says they are political and have nothing to do with ‘climate’
Robert Austin says:
October 30, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Does this prove that there really is a god and he/she/it just loves to torment warmists?
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It proves that the Tea Party members prayed a lot and Mother Nature loves a good joke.
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Anthony – Get back to work on your paper!
We really need it before Durbin.
Hisownfool says:
October 30, 2011 at 4:34 pm tell me that you agree with the people in this video cause this is what the majority of OWS stand for the rest might be a little better educated but they can’t be much better
http://www.therightscoop.com/former-soviet-citizen-confronts-socialists-at-ows/
B-b-b-back – B-b-b-back – T-t-to – T-t-to – th-th-the – th-th-the – X-x-x-x-X-b-b-b-b-box – X-x-x-x-X-b-b-b-b-box – a-a-at h-h-h-home – a-a-at h-h-h-home!
It’s Mother Nature’s way of saying she doesn’t tolerate fools.
What, only 3 million without power? I wanted 5 million with the impact clustered around Edward Markey’s district in Mass. Keep the storms coming and keep watching the AMO chart for decline and in the presence of decline in the PDO. Stick em, freeze em, and to quote bumper stickers from the 70s–Ban Mining and Let the Bast#$@ur momisugly Freeze in the Dark.
This is indeed “Climate Justice.” served cold….
Oh and I’ll have my Schadenfreude severed, on the rocks, stirred not shaken….
Served, dang it.
This is good news indeed – it is high time the warmists got a well-publicised slap-down like this. Delicious irony.
OK, we have to acknowledge the old, hackneyed mantra of “weather is not climate” – but it’s all grist to the mill, as far as I’m concerned.
Not withstanding, my sincere best wishes and commiserations go out to all those adversely affected by this tree snapper. I hope it melts soon and you get your power back on.
Condolences to all those bereaved.
@Hisownfoo
How can you equate pointing out the truth that Irene was not a hurricane when it made landfill with downplaying its significance? Truth is truth. A storm doesn’t have to be a hurricane to be be a serious situation, especially if it goes right over where a bunch of lemmings have congregated.
No giggle room either.
What is climate justice?
Look, I know everyone is ticked off at wall street billionaires, as if they didn’t exist they’d somehow have a job. I get it, human nature. But the cause sure did attract all the left wing wack jobs. Didn’t take long for that movement to loose focus. Mic check, mic check! WHAT THE HELL (what the hell), ARE WE (are we) DOING HERE? (doing here?)
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The warmists’ response was that there are more warm events than cold events. Some such nonsense to keep the paychecks flowing…
McKibben likes the heat, not the cold apparently.
Amazing all the extra snow made possible by the earth warming. Based on a straight line projection from historical records, it wont be long before we have 400+ days of snow a year.
What is not being taken into account is that thermographic readings show that it was the warmest snow to ever fall in October in NYC, with an unprecedented amount of latent heat existing inside the snow. Fortunately, a sample of the snow from close to Central Park was preserved, quickly being sent in a freezer pack to Boulder for analysis to see if some of the missing heat was present in the snow. Warm snow has long been predicted as proof of AGW.
…okay, now sarc off…
The saddest thing about this storm was the great number of very old trees that have been lost. My sister lives in Portland ME, and a 100 year old maple in front of her house was split in half by the heavy snow. That fact alone tells you how rare this snowstorm was, as trees don’t get that big and old if these kinds of storms are frequent.
Note the dates on this. Muller claims warming has not slowed, yet:
Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
By Charles Onians
Monday, 20 March 2000
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Yep…we got about 10 inches here in western New Hamphire. Nothing unusual for us. Just a nuisance. Don’t need my snow tires just yet, either.
BTW, I am totally HAPPY that the OWS idiots have fully embraced the CAGW climate science bandwagon! Please – MORE! And please, let Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt share a tent. PLEASE!
Yes, but it was rotten snow. And the rain was soggier than normal. Not to mention it was earlier… no wait…later…um…higher…lower…er…shorter…longer than the average. Er go, global warming.
in sydney last weak we had a hot day around 34 deg , the news media where saying global warming where all going to fry .by the way it has been cold ever since
I wish it would snow in Perth Australia; nothing but sand flies and sharks here. Last time I skied was 1982 when I lived in Seattle.
We hosted CHOGM on the weekend and not a word about CAGW from our PM Gillard.
[http://www.chogm2011.org/home]
Pete
Mother Nature has a sense of humor for sure.
She disrupted James Hansen’s “protest” on March 3, 2009, in Washington DC with an EXTREME below climatology snowstorm and highs in the twenties (the 20’s….three weeks from Spring).
Now she has disrupted this chicanery in Zuccotti Park with an historic storm that defies modern records.
Never in the history of rising CO2, has so much snow been recorded in Central Park, let alone one day as opposed to one month, in October. Granted, 2 inches might not seem to be alot, until you look at the record.
Then fly as the crow flies to Massachusetts to the north and look at the nearly 3 FEET totals.
October….before Halloween….you know the AMC Marathon of Jamie Lee Curtis times of things.
Considering the problem at hand….those tent whiners however…would be better pressed to stop their protests in the midst of a MAJOR and HISTORIC disaster and actually help their fellow New Englanders so that the babies in the subfreezing houses don’t die of hypothermia.
Right.
But….of course…in their cognitive dissonance world, things are heating up….so there is no problem.
Right. Bastards! Where is their honor??
What dumb *****s that we have to deal with today. Geeeez.
No wonder Mother Nature is mad.
And…to be honest…if she is that pissed off…then I understand her rage and allow her to do whatever she needs to do.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
R. Gates says:
October 30, 2011 at 7:06 pm
What is not being taken into account is that thermographic readings show that it was the warmest snow to ever fall in October in NYC, with an unprecedented amount of latent heat existing inside the snow. Fortunately, a sample of the snow from close to Central Park was preserved, quickly being sent in a freezer pack to Boulder for analysis to see if some of the missing heat was present in the snow. Warm snow has long been predicted as proof of AGW.
…okay, now sarc off…
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No.
Sarc…”.never on”. J
ust stupidity.
You can’t, R….you can NOT explain snow to the coastal plain in October next to the warm Atlantic.
This AIN’T DENVER dude. No upslope here.
Much harder…..MUCH HARDER here to produce snow [especially in motha ******* October I mean really dude]….considering wet bulbs and cooling aloft.
So climb out of your Denver and your Boulder ICAR bubble and let’s see if you are breathing afterwards.
Yeah….I thought so.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA