Report by David Archibald
The New York Times has reported on the great depth of snow blanketing Davos, Switzerland which is hosting the World Economic Forum. Of course the snow disrupted polemics on the dangers of global warming:
Linda P. Fried, the dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, allowed three hours at midday on Monday to travel from her hotel to the uncrowded registration center nearby and then a few blocks to the conference. But because of the gridlock, she was a half-hour late to give her speech. The topic had been the health risks that arise from climate change.
“I’ve been coming for eight years and this is the worst I’ve seen it,” she said. But she bristled when asked whether some — like perhaps President Trump — might question the incongruity of discussing global warming during a blizzard. “It isn’t accurate, people just don’t understand, that’s not the metric,” she said.
Our man in Davos has reported in:
This year we have had record amounts of snow in Switzerland. The railway line is closed to Davos.because of danger of avalanches. The road has only limited capacity.
Davos, normally 10.000 inhabitants, is guarded by 7000 – police and Swiss army and airforce.
Because of all checkpoints and snow this year, it takes about three hours for the last 30 km from Lanquart to Davos. In the end of the week, warmer weather is expected, it has started to rain here at 600 m in {redacted}, it probably still snowing in Davos.
This means a risk of shutdown/meltdown in Davos if all the snow starts melting.
Only reasonable way to go to Davos for the elite is by helicopter. We hear them now over our house.
Interesting to see how Trump-force will travel. It is reported in Swiss TV that the US-government group is about 1500 people including Secret Service. There are about 200 private jets waiting for parking slot in Zürich, Friedrichshafen, Sion, Milan, Bergamo etc.
Will try to go to Davos on Thursday or Friday, if weather allows, and make a report.
David Archibald is the author of American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare
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It is almost like we are living in “The Matrix ” and the program is changing the weather to make the Global Warmunists look as stupid as possible.
OK, I know that weather is not climate, but the Warmunists are always the first to pounce on any extreme weather event and attribute it to microscopic Global Warming.
Everyone knows that there is a causal relationship between the appearance of Al Gore and cold weather. When he shows up, it snows on global warming marches. When he shows up at beautifully staged anti-Trump rallies, the giant crowds of screaming lefties are pelted with freezing rain. When Al Gore arrives at YOUR political rally, you had best be prepared to deal with inclement weather. Climate scientists cannot exactly say why Al Gore has this effect on the weather. They only know he does. Some faith based groups believe it has something to do with an intelligent, omnipotent creator with a sense of humor gently trying to persuade Mr. Gore to exhibit a modicum of humility.
OK so using the road to Davos may not be the best option at this time …
That 60 km/hr + ‘Davos’ sign at the entry to Davos is almost snowed under and you can see snow where at least part of the road should be…
Perhaps ski to Davos from a nearby village?
Snowshoes, perhaps?
So, what is “the metric”?
Earlier this picture (taken earlier yesterday perhaps?).:quality(50)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/807cc2de-fb7c-11e7-95c5-2d5e55ec9e61.jpg)
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Now this of same spot (CNBC, at least 5hr ago):
OK so perhaps a bit more than 40 cm overnight, or it is simply still snowing.
Snowball fight!!
It needs to be warm for a snowball fight. For the snow to be sticky, you need to be a bit above freezing. Otherwise you are just throwing powder around. Doesn’t work too well.
That’s why you take the battled water from the conference rooms.
“take the battled water”
This typo seems oddly appropriate.
Whilst climate is a focus at Davos, this creature awakens from hibernation and crawls out from under his rock…
John Podesta
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/womens-rights-issues-are-climate-change-issues/2018/01/22/c59b9b00-f65a-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.d4a4366b8f60
One commenter complained about using this weather event to say global warming is not real. One weather event doesn’t disprove it, no. However, if these are the smarter people in the world, know everything about weather and climate, why do the fools have global warming meetings at a SKI RESORT???? I’m seeing “clueless” on all this and good reason to doubt the whole mess.
Davos meeting were meetingsy not about initiallym about climate. The locale offered skiing and good food, etc., in order to tempt bigshots to attend.
Perhaps they should have picked a more temperate location with great food and recreation where there would be no chance of snow (okay, this year that would tough), in case global warming comes up, which it always does.
Algore getting snowed under yet again! God truly does have a sense of humor!
So who benefits from globull warming. Gore must be crying in jealously.
Tesla just locked in Elon Musk as CEO with a $70 billion pay package
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-price-rising-after-locking-in-elon-musk-as-ceo-for-10-years-2018-1-1013724192
There was a big arctic melt in 1817 as reported by whalers returning from the hunt, not pseudo-scientists staring into computer screens and gorging on government grants. Explain please.
60-70 year AMO cycle Warm / Cold: 2000W 1970C 1940W 1910C 1880W 1850C 1820W
What I want to know is…
What happens to the Stevenson Screens when there’s more than 1.25 meters (or
2 meters of snow fall) at the site of these screens?
Do observers dig out the screen so it properly registers temperatures and dew
points?
Will we see a slew of “interpolated” data coming from Switzerland, Austria, Italy,
Germany and France? What about the ones that have been buried by the
white stuff in the US and Canada ?
Does someone go out and clear the multiple inches of snow off the top of box
after a major snowfall?
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) agreed standard for the height of the
thermometers is between 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground.
At a manned weather station you just shovel that white stuff away. It is a real problem for robot stations that after a while start measuring the temperature down in the snow which is only good for long-term averages since snow is an excellent insulator.
At the manned stations, how much are the readings impacted by snow between shovelings?
We should probably also include blown snow clogging up the screens.
Will he be going to Havana anytime soon?
No mention of the skiing at Davos. How many lifts are operating? Probably none due to excessive snow caused by climate change. If I were at the conference, I would probably just ski and forget about the meetings.
“Davos, normally 10.000 inhabitants, is guarded by 7000 – police and Swiss army and airforce.”
What about the Navy? Are the sails and oars iced up?
A couple of years ago, some soldiers on duty were sent home for using cannabis and cocaine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35385455
Al Gore must be lurking around there some where .
Nice to see the kids will know what snow is for at least one more year .
What we do understand is the science has never been evaluated by those not benefiting from the lavish grants the theory has generated for them. We also understand that so many of the areas covered by climate science have people far far more skilled than them in individual areas like the noise filtering of the data and the subsequent pattern analysis to get the pattern of normal climate. Most important of all we understand that the data does not have the proper calibration networks that check the temperatures surrounding a sample of the stations to ensure that the figure it produces is meaningful average within the accuracy claimed.
in short we do understand that climate scientists are not very good at their job.
Read 1000 years of the Icelandic sagas and annals and see for your self Icecaps were smaller around 1300AD Glaciers have always been on the move.
snow is all about…
VIDEOS: 22 Jan: InTheSnow: Patrick Thorne: Resorts in the Alps Head Towards Record Snowfall Stats
Resorts reported up to 3.3m (11 feet) of snow in the 7 days to Sunday and the number of resorts passing the 4m snow depth total on upper slopes has continued to grow with Andermatt, Flaine, Laax, La Rosiere, Les Arcs, Murren, Saas Fee, St Anton and Verbier all now having more than 4 metres of snow on their upper runs.
Engelberg now reports a 625cm (21 feet) base and Crans Montana a 6.5m (22 feet) base on their upper slopes, the deepest in the Alps for some years.
Courchevel says it has had 549cm of snowfall this season so far, the most since the 1979-80 season…
https://www.inthesnow.com/resorts-alps-head-towards-record-snowfall-stats/
It is interesting that when Mammoth Mountain had nine meters of snow last January on the mountain, there was no hoohah, but six meters on the Swiss mountain tops and two meters at 1500m above sea level and a hoohah erupts.
Noone at Ice Age Now suggested last year that Mammoth resort would be covered in ice in 20 years, but American bloggers say that European resorts are finished this January. Now I wonder why that would be? Americans wanting to buy up European Real Estate? They never want the whole world, do they? It is only Russians that want that…
I wonder how much snow Mammoth has had this season so fat? Ooh, would that be under 100 inches, possibly heading for a record low?
I wonder what happened in 1982/3 in Austria after the mega winter of 1981/2 (which was preceded by 30cm of snow in alpine valleys n July 15th, 1981)? Ooh, it was mild, almost no snow before Christmas, little snowfall after the first week in February in Salzburgerland.
And has there been an Ice Age since?
Of course not.
But if Americans can lie again and again to try and buy up European Real Estate, who cares eh?
The Europeans. They see it as unfriendly, a lack of leadership, a lack of respect.
From the article:
“Linda P. Fried, the dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health…to give her speech. The topic had been the health risks that arise from climate change.
“I’ve been coming for eight years and this is the worst I’ve seen it,” she said. But she bristled when asked whether some — like perhaps President Trump — might question the incongruity of discussing global warming during a blizzard. “It isn’t accurate, people just don’t understand, that’s not the metric,” she said.
Question for Linda Freid: What then is THE metric. Over the past decade-plus, everyone posting here has heard one professed expert after another say that dwindling snow cover is evidence of the claims they’ve made concerning AGW theory. We all know Alfonse Gore’s comments. (He will be there this year. Perhaps he can straighten her our on this, or her him?). So why now, after so many such comments from the activist and sci-activist experts specifically on this point should we take her word for this not being a significant metric? I realize I’m preaching to the converted, but if anyone knows Linda, please ask her this. Cheers.
Study also the drill cores from Greenland and Iceland that tell the weather history last thousand years and Al Gore did not want publicized. We in the North of 60° are still waiting for some of that global warmth or if you will Climate change.