“Three Tahoe resorts, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley, have reported that their season snow totals now exceed 600 inches. That’s more than 50 feet of snow!”
The Gospel According to Saint Al said that snow was a thing of the past. Looks like somebody forgot to tell Mother Nature.
“This entire winter season has really been an embarrassment of snow riches for several ski resorts throughout California especially around Lake Tahoe,” according to Weather.com. “Three Tahoe resorts, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley, have reported that their season snow totals now exceed 600 inches. That’s more than 50 feet of snow!”
Puh-leeze. These are not photos of snow. They are photos of extreme weather conditions brought on by worldwide climate change.
A snowbank at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort
There’s a building under there somewhere at Alpine Meadows
Skiing stopped at Alpine Meadows when the snow level reached the height of the lift
A walkway cleared through the snow at Heavenly Valley
Big deal, you say, it’s not unusual for snow level to reach mid-window at Mammoth Mountain. Then you find out this is a third story window.
The road near Lake Tahoe
How’d you like to clear the snow out of this driveway near Tahoe-Donner?
Global warming is piling up in Paris as one of the biggest early December blizzards in decades sweeps across Europe. And as if re-enacting one of the country’s many humiliating military defeats, French bureaucrats immediately ran up the white flag.
Global warming is piling up in Paris as one of the biggest early December blizzards in decades sweeps across Europe. And as if re-enacting one of the country’s many humiliating military defeats, French bureaucrats immediately ran up the white flag.
Paris, the City of Lights, the City of Heavy Snowfall
The BBC is in the know on the snow:
Heavy snow in Paris brought buses to a halt on Wednesday, suspended flights at Charles de Gaulle airport and prompted the closure of the Eiffel Tower.
Motorways in the Paris region were described as impassable as snow that had already hit other areas of France spread to the capital.
… The Meteo France service reported that one of its Paris weather stations had recorded 11cm (4.5in) of snow. The French capital has not seen a larger one-day snowfall since 1987.
Although the Paris Metro and rail network were operating normally on Wednesday, Charles de Gaulle airport closed for part of the afternoon until workers were able to clear the runways of snow.
The operators of the Eiffel Tower decided to close the monument as salt could not be used to tackle the snow and ice because of possible damage to the iron structure.
The national centre for traffic information described secondary routes in the Paris region as “catastrophic”. By mid-afternoon, the bus operator RATP declared that not a single bus was running.
In fact, the only thing that’s still running in Paris is the people. And they’re running away from the global warming scam just as fast as they can.
As if they were intentionally poking global warming fanatics in the eye, meteorologists are predicting that snow will cover the United Kingdom this week.
As if they were intentionally poking global warming fanatics in the eye, meteorologists are predicting that snow will cover the United Kingdom this week.
C'mon, gang, let's all sing "I'm dreaming of a global warming Christmas"
Not just up in the Scottish highlands and not just in Northern England and not just in that Welsh town with the really long name and not just on the outskirts of Belfast. No, we’re talking about the entire United Kingdom. Every square inch of it.
The Daily Mail UK has the chilly details:
Snow is expected to blanket Britain today with no part of the country escaping the big freeze.
London, the South East and the Midlands, which had until now largely escaped the worst of the severe weather, are all likely to be covered by up to two inches of snow, forecasters have warned.
Winter Safety Tip #37: Don't forget the scrape the global warming off your windscreen
Siberian winds will make it feel as cold as -12c in some areas, in what is already the coldest November for a quarter of a century.North-east England and Scotland, which were deluged by 2ft of snow over the weekend, are also braced for fresh falls.
… The AA reported an ‘unprecedented’ demand for its services for this time of year, with more than 2,100 calls an hour yesterday. Helen Chivers, of the Met Office, said it had been the heaviest snowfall for late November since 1993 – and the worst was yet to come.
Global warming experts, of course, said this unprecedented early winter and heavy snowfall is proof that global warming is real.
Well, we’ll be damned if global cooling from global warming hasn’t already started. Seattle is now digging out from its biggest snowstorm since 1977.
You may have missed the story last week that said scientists now believe that global warmingclimate change global climate disruption may cause much colder winters.
Well, damned if it hasn’t already started. Seattle is now digging out from its biggest snowstorm since 1977.
Time.com has the flaky details:
At least three people have died. Schools are closed. Flights were delayed after a cargo plane skidded off an icy runway. The city’s main freeway was turned into a large parking lot with abandoned cars. Tens of thousands are without power. What’s the fuss? Seattle got 2.5 inches of snow.
Yes, apparently that’s all it takes.
The record-setting snowfall — the previous record of 1.5 inches was set more than 30 years ago, in 1977 — has crippled the city that rarely sees much of the white stuff.
Our prediction: We will soon learn that Al Gore is heavily invested in snow plows.
Evil climate denier Anthony Watt says 2001-2010 was the world’s snowiest decade in, well, decades. And Rutgers University has the stats to back him up. But Al Gore says you should just ignore all that fluffy white stuff you’re up to your ass in.
Evil climate denier Anthony Watt says 2001-2010 was the world’s snowiest decade in, well, decades. And Rutgers University has the stats to back him up. But Al Gore says you should just ignore all that fluffy white stuff you’re up to your ass in.
“Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm,” Gore wrote in a wonky Op-Ed for The New York Times.
“The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth,” he acknowledged.
“Yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans,” he wrote. And that puts “significantly more moisture into the atmosphere – thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow.”
Unfortunately for the Goracle, Watt and the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab respectfully disagree. At least we think it was respectful.
“Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2. The bar chart below shows average winter snow extent for each decade going back to the late 1960s.”
Remember back in October when the mayor of Moscow proudly announced that Russia had learned to control the weather and that no snow would fall in Moscow this winter?
Remember back in October when the mayor of Moscow proudly announced that Russia had learned to control the weather and that no snow would fall in Moscow this winter?
Here’s how Time Magazine told the wintery tale:
Pigs still can’t fly, but this winter, the mayor of Moscow promises to keep it from snowing. For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March. Road crews won’t need to constantly clear the streets, and traffic — and quality of life — will undoubtedly improve.
As the BBC reports, that was then, this is now:
Thousands of snow-clearing machines have been working to dig the Russian capital Moscow out of a record-breaking fall of 63cm (nearly 25 inches).
After a weekend of heavy snow showers, the regional weather centre announced that the previous record of 62cm, set in 1966, had been broken.
…In all, about 15,000 snow-clearing machines were deployed in the city of about 10.5 million people, backed by 8,500 dump trucks and about 5,500 street-sweeping personnel.
Quick. Someone check to see if Al Gore has been in Moscow. This has all the signs of the Gore Effect.
An historic blizzard hit Washington, DC this weekend, burying the White House under several feet of snow. This, of course, is definitive proof of global warming.
An historic blizzard hit Washington, DC this weekend, burying the White House under several feet of snow. This, of course, is definitive proof of global warming.
Always remember that whatever it is, it’s caused by global warming. For example, here are two video clips. In the first one, we’re told that global warming causes more snow. In the second one, we’re told that global warming causes less snow.
Always remember that whatever it is, it’s caused by global warming.
For example, here are two video clips. In the first one, we’re told that global warming causes more snow. In the second one, we’re told that global warming causes less snow.
We haven’t found it yet, but we’re sure there’s a video out there somewhere claiming that global warming causes exactly the same amount of snow.
“Woe is me! Global warming causes more snow!” – Dylan Ratigan
“Woe are we! Global warming causes less snow!” – Barbara Boxer, et al
The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.
Record levels of global warming piled up in Washington, DC this weekend
The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.
As this weekend’s mammoth blizzard proves, RFK, Jr. is a highly-qualified global warming expert and fully prepared to serve on the IPCC (in case you didn’t recognize it, that’s what’s known in journalistic circles as sarcasm).
The Washington Examiner reports the chilling details:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.
In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington’s C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.
Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy.
Throw another log on the fire, RFK, Jr., or all this global warming fantasy will freeze your ass off.
In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts global warming proponent and Met Office chief John Hirst on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.
Back during the Depression, a newspaper reporter asked Babe Ruth how he could justify making more money than the president of the United States. Ruth responded, “I had a better year than he did.”
Unfortunately, that explanation won’t work for top British government climate guru John Hirst. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had an awful year, but it shines in comparison to Hirst’s.
In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts the global warming guru on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.
It’s almost laugh-out-loud-funny to watch Hirst squirm while trying to answer questions such as, “Since you can’t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.”
Thanks for our friends over at ClimateGate.com for finding this gem.
If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, you’ve come to the right place. Hell’s bells, it’s not even winter yet and the northern hemisphere is covered with unprecedented snow. Damn that global warming.
Snow on the beaches of Southern France on December 19, 2009
If you’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas, you’ve come to the right place. Hell’s bells, it’s not even winter yet and the northern hemisphere is covered with unprecedented snow. Damn that global warming.
Alaska sees record snow: Five feet, 8 inches deep!
Source: Alaska Dispatch
Let It Snow: NYC Preps for the White Stuff
Source: NBCNewYork.com
Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
Source: Bloomberg
Washington, DC expecting up to 20-inches of snow
Source: Weather Underground
Evil climate denier Anthony Watt says 2001-2010 was the world’s snowiest decade in, well, decades. And Rutgers University has the stats to back him up. But Al Gore says you should just ignore all that fluffy white stuff you’re up to your ass in.
