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:
1846 – USA: The Donner Party Tragedy occurred as barely half of the 87 pioneers trapped in heavy early season snows in the Sierra Mountains survived.
1887 – USA: Weather records have been kept at Charlotte, North Carolina, since 1878. The only snow ever to occur there in October happened on this date.
1991 – USA: “Halloween Mega Storm” strikes the Upper Midwest. Minnesota endured full blizzard conditions with winds gusting as high as 50 mph. Duluth picked up 37 inches of snow.
All on October 31.
NO JUSTICE – NO CLIMATE!!!
Disko Troop said on October 31, 2011 at 11:27 am:
Let us know when you get the snowplow mounted on the front, okay?
Anthony, I was delighted to see the extreme unseasonal weather in the northeast., This blizzard helps make the case for global warming. Global warming is the weather, EXTREME weather, hot, cold, wet , dry, weather on the rampage, gales gone wild, weather on steroids – HEAT ENERGY. Follow the energy. You folks are confused by heat. You tend to think of heat as a temperature recording. But heat is energy. Heat energy drives the weather. Heat energy is an equal opportunity provider of weather generating blizzards as well as droughts. Extreme weather is marked by two conditions – an enormous amount of energy present and terrible human suffering. All that digging! It snows if the conditions are right. Anthony should know this stuff, He’s a weatherman. How does it go? A cold air mass pushes down from, is drawn down from, the arctic, pushing a vast warm, water laden air mass skyward. Air mass loses heat, water vapor condenses into drops, rises higher, loses more heat, turns into ice, falls as snow through now cold air layers below, no melting, lands in my old play ground Central Park. When a cold weather event comes along, deniers triumphantly trumpet, “Where’s your global warming now, heh?” Extreme cold events are offset by extreme warm events with a slight nod toward warm. Some years it’s just the opposite, the nod goes to cool. Up and down the line wavers over the wears until a slight upward trend is noted, an increase of one or two degrees. Don’t be fooled by that increase. It reflects the energy in the various systems rather than a temperature recording. Follow the energy. Here’s my theory summed up in this weather equation;
CO2+H2O(nature) + CO2(man) = WEATHER form mild to intense to EXTREME.
“If you cannot refute, you must not dispute” FXF
I think McKibben is actually playing Ring Around the White House over the proposed oil sands pipeline.
He has a post on Huff Post about it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/surround-the-white-house-keystone_b_1064760.html
“FXF” seems really wrapped up in his emotional blankey. Lots of ENERGY in his presentation, content not so much…
Maybe he could look just 4 comments up from his and find that this weather was not at all out of the ordinary. Maybe, if he tried really really hard, he could learn about “1800 and froze to death” also known as the “Year without a summer” when is snowed in SUMMER in New England.
Then he would realize that snow in October, while completely out of bounds for the Global Warming meme is quite in line with “weather as usual”. No warming. Nada, not a bit. Snow does not come from warming, it comes from cooling water vapor below the freeze point and dumping that “Heat of Fusion” to space in the tops of clouds. A cooling event.
But I don’t hold out much hope for FXF. He’s too full of… of… of ‘himself’ to bother with the reality of heat flows, of history, or of the reality of a very cold snowy October not being at all what Global Warming promised….
Francis, the “Hot causes cold” twist on the truth is just a case of “this dog won’t hunt”. So you all just feel free to try selling that load of Felgercarb as much as you can. Joe and Jane Sixpack are just going to sit back and have a really good laugh at you… right after they get done shoveling the walk and cleaning up the downed trees.
Perhaps Anthony can offer a line of “Global Warming Thermal Underwear” and snow shovels for use while shoveling all the… the… the Global Warming some folks are spreading around 😉
Nor would you if such “inspection” destroyed the confidential aspect of your livlihood and all the money you poured into the venture. But time will tell; time will tell. (Or are you so confident that peer review, as you report and have experienced yourself in “THe BEST whopper ever” would verify without seriously compromising Rossi’s invention? Whatever your answer, inspection isn’t necessary before commercialization, as a lot of other products with proprietary content exist as examples.)
@E.M.
“Perhaps Anthony can offer a line of “Global Warming Thermal Underwear” […]”
Brilliant!
Anthony take note. I’m sure it will be a hot item this season.
It didn’t take long for the MSM spin machine to kick into high gear …
Today MSM are reporting: “Northeast snooooooooow storrrrrrrrrrmmmm … step right up, read all about it! Northeast snoooooooowwwwww storrrrrrrmmmmm …. due to endddddlessssssss gloooooballlllllll warrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmming!
Leon Brozyna – Thanks for your concern.
Power came back on at dinner last night [Monday] and the internet this morning. The new chainsaw got well broken in, and we are now well supplied with wood for the rest of the winter with lots more laying around by the sides of the road to keep wood burning people in town well supplied. Still lots of folks around town without power, but New Englanders are holding up well.
The kiddies provided a classic photo: Halloween snow-man with jack-o-lantern head and Santa Clause hat to greet the trick-or-treaters Monday.
http://thecoralinememe.net/2011/11/01/cognative-dissonance-halloween-postponed-due-to-snow/#more-374
E.M.S.There are two definitions of heat: “1 n Heat is energy capable of being transmitted through fluid media (carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane) by convection (also by conduction and radiation) , “warm air rises.” (Remember that phrase from your highschool physics class on the weather and the transfer of heat?) 2. Heat is a temperature recording.”
They are not the same, you cannot measure heat energy with a thermometer. For example, back in that physics class, the instructor pours one pot of 70 degree water into anothe pot also at 70 degrees. He then asks, “How much heat is now present?” Someone says, “Still 70 degrees, another says 140 degrees.” When he stops laughing, he says he doesn’t want to know how hot or cold the water is, he wants to know how much heat energy is present. He tells his students the amount of energy has doubled. The same demonstration operates with air masses in the atmosphere. Man’s output of CO2 , millions and millions of tons, mixing with nature’s output, millions and millions of tons of carbon dioxide and water vapor.. Energy drives the weather, hot, cold, wet,dry. Global warming is the weather, EXTREME weather.
Here in the Boston area, we got a lot of heavy wet snow on Halloween. Up till then, it was unseasonably warm. We didn’t turn the heat on in our house until a day or two before the storm — this is at least two weeks later in the month than usual.
Today (Nov. 1) it is unseasonably warm again — shirtsleeve weather.
Most trees still have their leaves. The reason, according to local meteorologists, is that the nights are staying warmer. Cold nights are needed to produce the calendar-perfect autumn colors that we expect here. The leaves are drying out and curling in on themselves, slowly turning brown.
All this suggests to me that there might be some truth to what the climate change modelers have been predicting: that in many regions in the middle latitudes, global warming will lead to increased precipitation – which means, that in places where it is still cold enough to snow, there will be more snow than before. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.
I hope the trees drop their leaves in time for spring.
Again mixing up weather and climate, on purpose. Nobody is argueing that snowfall is impossible in a landclimate during a global warming trend. You can get even more snow per occasion because of the higher dew-point levels in the atmosphere.
In september we had this mixing up of weather news and climate news for the Alps: record high average temperatures for September over there and an exceptional warm August as well. This long lasting warm period of two months (and prolongating in Octobre) was cut in two pieces by one day of snow, snow that melted away within two days except at the glacieers, but that very one day with the snow-event was picked for a main item on this website. A weather event, however the climate news from the Alps (Austria and Switzerland) never reaches the emerging newspages here on WUWT.
Guess how come?????