Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – The People’s Climate March rally in Colorado Springs, scheduled for April 29th, was postponed due to heavy snowfall and treacherous conditions.
Winter Blast Putting Climate Protests On Ice In Colorado
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Organized by groups seeking to ban the production of oil, natural gas, and coal, including 350.org, Sierra Club, and NextGen Climate, the “People’s Climate March” is occurring tomorrow in Washington, D.C., and cities across the country to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies.
With the Washington protest reportedly expected to draw tens of thousands of attendees, hundreds of “sister marches” are planned for cities across the country. But one out of the twelve protests in Colorado has already been postponed due to an impending snowstorm. The National Weather Service’s winter storm warning projects six to 12 inches of snow, but there is potential for up to two feet in the Denver Metro Area.
“Sometimes Mother Nature throws you a curveball!” 350 Colorado Springs wrote in a Facebook page earlier this afternoon. “Dangerous conditions and wet heavy snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Stay safe and warm and join us Sunday afternoon same time and place!!”
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Read more: http://westernwire.net/winter-blast-putting-climate-protests-on-ice-in-colorado/
Some of the protestors at the Colorado events which weren’t cancelled braved seriously cold weather, well protected by synthetic plastic snow gear manufactured from petroleum products, to protest against fossil fuels and global warming.
Credit the fee who actually made it out in the cold #DenverClimateMarch #copolitics pic.twitter.com/8YKkJY126P
— Matt Dempsey (@MDempseyCO) April 29, 2017
Surprisingly Al Gore wasn’t in Colorado at the time. The famous Gore effect is a remarkable tendency for temperatures to plummet to record lows, whenever Al Gore is in the vicinity of a major climate event. But this time Al Gore is off the hook – Gore reportedly showed up at the Washington DC march.
It was a cold day in Hawaii as well . From Cliff Mass …
Record Cold and Unprecedented Trough Hits Hawaii
How unusual? Using the wonderful weather graphics available from the WeatherBell web site, here are the 500 hPa heights and standardized anomalies for Saturday at 11 PM and Sunday at 5 AM. Standardized anomalies start with the difference of the heights from normal (the anomaly) and divides that by the standard deviation (also known as sigma, a measure of historical variability). Amazingly, the normalized anomalies near the low center are around 6.5 sigma.That means it is so unusual that it never happened before in the historical record.
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/05/record-cold-and-unprecedented-trough.html
The only thing constant is change.
“It was a cold day in Hawaii as well . From Cliff Mass …”
I wondered about that and what Hawaii was experiencing. I watch the jet streams every day and I noticed a few days ago that the jetstream took a huge dip, almost overnight, one that dipped all the way down to Hawaii.
I wondered if the dip I saw was unusual, and from the link you provided, I guess it was. Thanks for the link.
[snip . . . that’s just tedious of you. Put some content into your posts so we can all learn something. Thanks. . . mod]
Off topic, can anyone tell me why the ENSO Meter (on the right) is showing positive again? A month or two ago it was showing -0.5 (pointing towards La Nina).
They’re all protesting the use of natural gas, coal, etc., for things they take for granted, which includes cooking and heat, right?
Anyone want to take bets on how long they’ll last without heat, never mind some way to cook food? Remember, microwaves require electricity to run and so do electric stoves and induction hot plates. Any bets on it?
Since they probably do not cook they can’t make the connection between electrical or gas heat and cooking on the stove or oven.
Granted, but they do use microwaves, possibly countertop convection ovens, and that requires electricity.
Granted, but they do use microwaves, possibly countertop convection ovens, and that requires electricity.
I know, you could use a nature-friendly green and brown energy source! Like… wood!
Oh, wait, that’s also “destroying poor fluffy, friendly and safe mother nature”, that poor defenseless thing…
Yep, they’re doomed. Throw them in a forest with no food and modern equipment, I bet they don’t last a week, or they’ll convert back to being sane beings.
Perhaps adaptive Gore strategy with jet travel and decisions on which protest or meeting venue to attend could be modeled with game theory.
In New England we deal with daily temperature swings of up to 40 degrees. I don’t think we care about imperceptible changes over decades. It will still snow any day from October to May. That was true in the 1950s and it is true today.
BTW, 3 years ago, for the first time since God only knows, the ground froze below the frost line.
Stay tuned.
See? That’s PROOF of AGW!
/ lefty loon
You may resume your 420 celebrations while waiting for the next call. Simon says.
So … we can’t see the warmest through the sleet?
“But this time Al Gore is off the hook – Gore reportedly showed up at the Washington DC march.”
Maybe he’s off the hook, or maybe you just forgot to homogenize the spatial grid.
I live in the southwest part of the Denver metro area at about 5850′. We had 14″-15″ of snow from that storm. Depending on who you talk to, April is the 2nd or 3rd snowiest month for Denver.
Over the last 150 years or so it has not snowed in Denver in only one month, July. We had snow in May last year and I remember 2-3 years about a 8″ snow on April 28-29 and measurable snow fall only five months later at the end of September. Talk about a short summer.
Like they say though, weather isn’t climate. But it sure is fun when mother nature doesn’t play nice with Ecomentalist.
All that global warming/climate change allows me to ski at A-Basin Colorado on Memorial Day…and often well into June. Ha.
You have to wonder if these people are smart enough to know what their activism is doing to abet rising utility costs across the Mountain West. That hurts everybody who pays bills.
Xcel bills in our Metro Denver suburb show that gas prices have come down a lot, from .68 cents to .59 cents / ccf, since 2011, a six year period. But meanwhile, electrical costs have risen significantly, from .11 cents to .18 cents in the same period.
That’s a 13% decline in gas prices. But, an electric cost hike of 81%. Go figure. Gas prices are down because of fracking, so the hike makes no sense if most of our electric power is still coal and gas-generated, and I think that is the case. I have to assume that they’re getting creative with their electric prices to compensate for their losses due to cheaper gas.
The rate hikes are much faster than the rate of inflation over the last couple of decades, and still no end in sight.
https://www.i2i.org/energy-policy-center-report-electricity-rates-skyrocket-across-all-colorado-sectors/
The marchers were slated to form themselves into a giant thermometer. Don’t know if they carried out that bit of that frivolous choreography, since I try not to pay too much attention to them.
Prior to a job transfer in 2000 to Texas, I spent the first 38 years of my life in the Denver Metro area. I am truly amazed at our national media and their reaction to the front range of Colorado and the northern plains of Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas receiving a large snow storm in late April. you would have thought the world was coming to an end the way they were talking, but if they would bother to check their almanacs, they would find this to be a common event. the latest snowfall in Denver was on June 3, I don’t remember the year and I have seen it snow in the last week of August. It can snow at any time of year in the mountains above Denver. I will say this as a matter of observation, solar activity is way down and if our star is headed into another Dalton/Mulder type event, then we might see snow in July in Denver before too long.
Hell, here in western PA Memorial Day is often cold and rainy, and sometimes even have sleet.