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Let It Snow

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…let it snow, let it snow.

Joe Lieberman went home to Connecticut for the last day of Chanukkah, and he’s snowed in, which means no cloture vote until he gets back. I’m seeing messages from DC Facebook friends that they’ve had to shovel two feet of global warming off their sidewalks already.

21 thoughts on “Let It Snow”

  1. COPENHAGEN [AP] – Shocked and shaken by the theft of the Auschwitz sign, the world community must now “take note” of another midnight action. This time its a deal brokered by US President Barack Obama at the largest and most important U.N. meeting ever on fighting global warming. The new deal, which abandons the most vulnerable of nations along with the world’s biologically rich tropical forests, continues a pattern of what international representatives call a “real lack of transparency” by the White House. Obama dismissed the UN’s criticisms of his unusual and undemocratic negotiating process as “cynicism” while declaring his unbinding document an “unprecedented breakthrough”. Obama’s document promises to funnel up to $100B a year through the UN Development Programme, widely known for its corruption. “The deal is a triumph of spin over substance,” said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam International, it “kicks back” on the issue of “climate cash”. Like the Nazis sending “6 million people into furnaces” in the Holocaust, Obama is condemning the world to wide-spread global warming deaths, other leaders pointed out. Meanwhile, outside in the cold, hundreds of European protesters chanted and carried signs of Obama with the word “shame” pasted on his face.

  2. Weather and climate are not the same thing. Of course, that is an inconvenient fact for those who want to carry on turning oil, bought with money borrowed from China and with the money sent to Dark Ages despotisms, into a combination of hot air and testosterone.

  3. When it’s warm, or it’s devastating storms, it’s climate. When it’s cold, or even just nice out, it’s weather.

    It’s sorta like how for the last century, the solution to every one of the problems we face is that we just don’t have enough Marxist Socialism in our lives.

  4. And the lovely snow continues to fall in Maryland. Winter hasn’t started, and it’s the biggest snowstorm in a decade. How sweet, that it would defeat so much of the Left’s agenda!

    BTW, Fletcher, I’ve been reading the e-mails. I once thought that AGW might have some merit. Now I know that there isn’t a “scholar” or scientist in that whole sorry side of things, and not an iota of evidence behind AGW. And I am a “rocket scientist.”

  5. Of course, that is an inconvenient fact for those who want to carry on turning oil, bought with money borrowed from China and with the money sent to Dark Ages despotisms, into a combination of hot air and testosterone.

    As opposed to the inconvenient fact that the Earth’s overall temperature is decreasing (and has been for some while), the ‘science’ at the CRU has been shown to be nothing more than slick, snake oil sales, and the folks who really want to send Billions of dollars to third world despots are the folks at Copenhagen.

    Maybe you should try your trolling at a web-site that is a little easier to fool, say move-on.org (silly, silly boy).

    BTW, Rand, I live near Annapolis and have 24″ of snow in my yard.

  6. “BTW, Rand, I live near Annapolis and have 24″ of snow in my yard.”

    I feel for ya’, Tom. The only reason I’ve got 12″ on my deck instead of more is it changed to sleet for a while overnight, cutting down the snow accumulation. (Outside Richmond.)

    GWMA. >:-(

  7. More news on the end of conference drama in Copenhagen.

    Climate negotiations in Copenhagen ended with a whimper and some chaos in the final plenary. About 115 national leaders attended the Copenhagen climate talks but the final ‘agreement’ announced by the US, India, China and South Africa, was drafted far outside the consensus process of the United Nations and amounted to only aspirational targets and promises, falling far short of an ambitous, fair and binding treaty demanded by civil society.

    Yes, it’s a shame that we didn’t commit economic suicide in an “ambitious, fair, and of course, binding” way. There’s also pictures in case you ever wondered what sort of critter has the time to waste protesting cultural sanity at stuff like this.

  8. My car is buried under about twelve inches (I think) of global warming. I may not see it again until March. Thanks, warmy climatechangers, for angering the weather gods.

  9. the Earth’s overall temperature is decreasing (and has been for some while)

    No. The 200x years are on track to be warmer than the 199x years, which were in turn warmer than the 198x years.

  10. Jim must be a paleoclimate scientist, because he’s got their data presentation and citation techniques down.

  11. The 200x years are on track to be warmer than the 199x years, which were in turn warmer than the 198x years.

    “For some while” was referring to the past decade. Over the longer term, it would be entirely unsurprising to see a gentle planetary warming, given that we’ve been recovering from a mini-ice age for the past couple hundred years. But the hockey stick is broken, probably for good.

  12. We aren’t growing wine in England, rice in the upper reaches of the Andes, and the Cradle of Civilization isn’t managing five crops a year. We’re nowhere near a historical record.

  13. To put some numbers to it, Rand:

    1980-1989: -0.047 is the satellite average for the decade
    1990-1999: 0.059 is the satellite average for the decade
    2000-2009: 0.22 is the satellite average for the decade

    So this is in line with a gentle, 0.1C per decade or so rise. 1 C per century.

    Obviously, we must spend trillions to prevent this!

  14. Hm… if you want to see the non-warming in the last half of this decade, you have to use 5 year periods:

    1980-1984: -0.045 is the satellite average for the decade
    1985-1989: -0.050 is the satellite average for the decade
    1990-1994: -0.031 is the satellite average for the decade
    1995-1999: 0.15 is the satellite average for the decade
    2000-2004: 0.21 is the satellite average for the decade
    2005-2009: 0.24 is the satellite average for the decade

    This data is far more fascinating than the often reported decade numbers for two reasons: first, there are enough numbers to get a feel for the variability; and second, out of the 2.8 C swing 1.8 C of it happened in a 5 year period. Did CO2 levels spike in that period? Seems the answer is no.

    Honestly, when I see a discontinuity like that my first thought is a measurement error of some kind, or different reporting. Anybody know what happened?

  15. Is that raw or adjusted satellite data? I ask because much of the satellite data has been adjusted to agree with ground measurements that are, to put it mildly, wrong. This adjustment was done because the raw satellite data didn’t agree with what the Alarmists were putting out, which they “tuned” to show warming that wasn’t occurring.

  16. David: “Anybody know what happened?”

    Somebody lied?

    Naahhh – can’t be that.

    Everyone knows all the people connected with climate are paragons of virtue, and the data is never manipulated….

  17. The 200x years are on track to be warmer than the 199x years, which were in turn warmer than the 198x years.

    And my 900-feet-above-sea-level back yard will be oceanfront property by 2050.

  18. Weather and climate are not the same thing.

    Y’know, in 100 years just as the glaciers are swallowing them up there will STILL be AGW zealots saying this.

  19. David, 1998 had a massive ‘El Nino’ year. The cyclical oceanic effects put several layers of wiggle into the observations. The start of satellite data – 1978 – happens to be a low portion of the cycle.

  21. “No. The 200x years are on track to be warmer than the 199x years, which were in turn warmer than the 198x years”

    Sophistry.What matters is the rate of change, which has been zero to negative for over a decade now.

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