I love watching the Weather Channel, especially on my new HD TV (for which I had to pay a $25 disposal fee – another environmental tax – even though I didn’t throw my old TV away).
I’m amazed at the number of records associated with cold, snow and rain around the Northern Hemisphere and in the U.S. this year, and we are only a little more than half way through the season. I was especially chuckling about how the centers of the global warming movement (Washington D.C. & England) were both receiving record snowfall. I’m not a religious person by nature, but, if this isn’t a message from above to open peoples eyes that the global warming – oh yeah – man-made weather change movement is a scam, then there is little hope for us in the middle.
The worst snow storms to hit the Washington D.C. area in 116 years are over (maybe). Due to the storms the Federal Government was closed for three straight days – for the first time ever. The news said that people should be content to spend their three days off at home. Washington Reagan National Airport received 18 inches of snow from just one of two storms, said NBC4 meteorologist Chuck Bell, making it #4 on the list of top 10 storms in the country. The top three were in 1922, 1899 and 1979. “[It’s] certainly as much snow as many of us have seen in our lifetime in one particular storm,” D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said as a third storm approached the city.
The Washington D.C. Metro area has already been pummeled by two storms, with a snowfall total of 45 inches recorded at Reagan International Airport when a third was on its way February 10. The record winter snowfall total is 55 inches for the area, a record which will likely be broken this month. If winter’s “global warming” weather persists, major cities across the mid-Atlantic could see record snowfall amounting to 100 inches by the end of the season (records only go back to 1884).
Around the northern hemisphere things aren’t much different,
In Beijing there were reports that the highest temperature of any month in December was minus 9 °C. Media reports say it was “the coldest day in December in the last 57 years.” Beijing’s weather bureau says snow storms were expected to continue through February as temperatures plunge still further. Local media says gale force winds from Siberia could push temperatures in the capital down to minus 16, the coldest weather Beijing has seen in 40 years.
Throughout Britain, “It has been the coldest December since the mid-1990s,” according to the BBC. “The south of England has come in at about 3 degrees below the average, which is the first time this has happened since December 1996.”
In Ireland, it was the coldest December for almost 30 years over most of the country. Forecasters said December was the coldest month in 28 years and the coldest of any month since February 1986 at a few stations. The forecaster said there was a total of between 22 and 27 ground frosts during the month at inland stations, compared with the normal range for December of between 13 and 17. The lowest temperatures of the year were recorded in late December, when the air and ground temperatures hit -10°C and -13°C respectively on December 25th.
It’s only fitting, with Britain facing its coldest winter in 100- years, that the disgraced climate scientist Prof. Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (in southeast England), said he had a “David Kelly moment” – a reference to the Government scientist who killed himself over WMD claims in the lead up to the Iraq war. These comments were made public as death threats poured in from people around the world angry with Jones for lying about global warming and hiding climate data. Since this scandal broke on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December, many others have followed, like CARB’s Trangate and the latest Himalaya-gate.
Plans to implement a worldwide carbon tax in the name of saving the planet from global warming took another blow after it was revealed that Alaskan glaciers have grown for the first time in 250 years after an abnormally cool summer last year.
Even the diesel industry poked fun at diesel haters during the Superbowl-44 commercial breaks. See Audi’s Green Police spot on YouTube, this is another indictment of the absurdity of CARB and EPA regulations, and their hatred of even green-clean diesel technology: See link to commercial here
CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the infamous global warming gas, which, of course, we all exhale and plants need. So how much of it makes-up our atmosphere? In 2009, the global average concentration of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere was about 0.0387% by volume, or 387 parts per million by volume (ppmv). There is an annual fluctuation of about 3–9 ppmv which roughly follows the Northern Hemisphere’s growing season. In comparison, dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.93% argon, and small amounts of other gases. Air also contains a variable amount of water vapor, on average around 1%, so there’s 26 times more moisture in the atmosphere than CO2.
Finally, to be fair and balanced, the alarmist are now looking at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where there has been record precipitation including snowfall in December and January, but, at the lower elevations it has been warmer and rainier than usual, causing snow under 5,000 ft. to melt. So the snow for the winter sports has to all be trucked in, and the emissions involved in doing so are aggravating the environmental CO2 crowd. Maybe they should just cancel the event, which would just be a prelude to AB 32’s goal to eliminate large groups of people gathering together, like, say, a football game!
The Washington D.C. Metro area has already been pummeled by two storms, with a snowfall total of 45 inches recorded at Reagan International Airport when a third was on its way February 10. The record winter snowfall total is 55 inches for the area, a record which will likely be broken this month. If winter’s “global warming” weather persists, major cities across the mid-Atlantic could see record snowfall amounting to 100 inches by the end of the season (records only go back to 1884).
