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Headline at Rhode Island’s Warwick Advertiser:
Local woman presents global warming poster to village
Touching, isn’t it? Naturally, this presenting was prompted by warm gospeller Rev. Al Gore:
“When I saw Al Gore’s documentary, it inspired me to do something,” said Nebus.
But poster gran Jeanette Nebus didn’t count on the Gore Effect’s inevitable impact, as reported by the same edition of the Warwick Advertiser:
Finally, snow. Kids were happy but some commuters weren’t quite as thrilled. With last week’s Tuesday night snow turning to ice and sleet all morning on Wednesday, then back to snow in the afternoon, roads were not at their best.
But it was the first significant snowfall in the area …
Stanley P. Gershbein warned Nebus and others of “this frequently observed correlation … known as the Gore Effect”. Why do these people ignore science? Meanwhile, Steve McIntyre follows Gore’s latest planet-circulating adventures:
Gore swept into Toronto yesterday using an environmentally controversially airline on Toronto Island – a service that is opposed by friends of Toronto’s waterfront (including myself.) The departing headlines read: Heed the Goracle.
Did the Effect manifest itself? Andycanuck emails:
Al Gore has hit Toronto and, surprise, surprise, a week that was forecast to be 3-4°C (about 1-2°C above average) as recently as 5 days ago has dropped to just below freezing and we’re getting a load of wet snow.
Columbia University exhibited no Gore Effect coldness, however. Must be a problem with the computer models.
- Wait a minute – just because the temperature at Columbia didn’t agree with your model doesn’t mean the model is wrongPosted by bgates on 2007 02 23 at 02:38 PM • permalink
- bgates,
Somebody made the point that the cosmic rays / solar activity hypothesis not only better correlates to historical temperature trends, and written history, but explains the ‘anomoly’ in Antarctica.To wit: Decreases in cloud formations having to do with increased solar magnetic activity shielding the Earth from cosmic rays would not warm Antarctica. The reason being that the continent is permanently covered in snow, and so reflects the same sunlight as if it were cloudy.
Warmers are in for a reckoning, and pretty soon too, I think.
- Ohio today has rock-hard frozen snow you don’t even sink into, even though we’re several hundred miles south of the Canadian G-spot.
Vicki this morning getting sea legs on ice
Vicki acclimated on ice
- It snowed yesterday in southeast Washington….mayhaps the Goracle™ flew overhead on his way east?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 23 at 02:54 PM • permalink
- ‘“When I saw Al Gore’s documentary, it inspired me to do something,” said Nebus.’
Me too. it inspired me to put it back on the shelf and rent a film that had more intellectual value, namely “Jay and Silent Bob Strike back”.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 23 at 03:43 PM • permalink
- And it’s gotten even worse:
http://tinyurl.com/32eywkFebruary 23, 2007
Extreme cold weather alert in effectThe City of Toronto has issued an extreme cold weather alert, effective immediately, to help get homeless people in from the cold. The alert is in effect until further notice.
An extreme cold weather alert is issued when extremely cold weather is forecast. This type of severe cold weather is hazardous to homeless people who are sleeping outside.
BTW, I can’t prove this now because Canada’s The Weather Network doesn’t archive its very changeable 14-day trend forecasts, but two weeks ago before Al showed up TWN was forecasting that the end of this week was going to reach 13°C, so thanks, Al, for effing up an early Spring for Toronto.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 05:06 PM • permalink
- I found an archived prognostication for this weeks weather. I guess their model does not yet include AlGore’s itinerary.
Coupla other random blizzard thoughts:
That computer model last week that was threatening us with another big snowstorm was wrong. So relax. Just a couple of light bouts of flurries. And much warmer after today, too.It has been below 20 F most of this week.
- Where was Agore yesterday, anyhow? In the space of two hours, we had rain, hail, sleet and snow. Just a few days ago it was in the 70’s. Did he do a fly-over on his way to Toronto (where, it seems, there’s no shortage of suckers)?Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 23 at 05:42 PM • permalink
- “I need a pair desperately and I will pay big bucks for them.” Sounds like what the polar bear said to the Aussie journo with the calipers.
BTW, that’s an awful thing to say about Leafs fans, Kyda. Oh. That wasn’t a sport reference. Never mind.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 06:03 PM • permalink
- Andycanuck, say thanks to these boys if you see ‘em.
I may have to change my joke about why Canada is always pink on the map.
- BTW in case you don’t know (as most don’t, I suppose) Steve McIntyre has revealed his total lack of environmental cred.
Toronto City Centre airport is on an island, literally meters—not even kilometers—from the population centers (centres in Canada, I suppose). A call to close it is a call to require air travelers to make a twenty-kilometer trip to Lester Pearson International Airport, thus adding measurably to their carbon footprint before they ever leave Canada.
The truth of the matter is that the Toronto waterfront is being gentrified—or, IOW, the Condo Commandos have taken the beachhead and are trying to consolidate their taking. Airplanes spoil the view from their million-dollar, fifty-square-meter flats and “reduce property values”. If McIntyre is shilling for them, he’s probably in the pay of the developers and real estate agents.
Regards,
Ric
- It’s good to see that the anti-AGW comments are massively outnumbering the pro at Dminor’s link and Tim’s link to the Columbia University story. BTW, maybe someone should check if the temperatures in NY around CU have actually been warmer since Al returned from freezing Toronto?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 23 at 07:30 PM • permalink
- I seem to remember that low pressure areas are caused by sucking extra molecules of oxygen and nitrogen from a geographic area. Then those ol’ nasty high pressure storms and what not rush into the area that has been the victim of some force that sucks all the oxygen from the area. So beware the reverse gas bag coming to your area.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2007 02 23 at 08:10 PM • permalink
- Nebus created a large poster describing global warming and how it affects our environment and our bodies.
Our bodies? There’s a new one. Anyone here know what the heck she means by that?Her poster, by the way, reminds me of those primary school projects we always had to do.
Straight after mentioning that America, China and India didn’t sign Kyoto, she claims “there are things we can do, the sooner the better, to help (reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% by 2012).” We then get a list of the usual rubbish, but never, ever, do we get even a ballpark guess at what these measures will actually achieve. You know, in real life. No, we just skip over the fact that none of this will drop temperature more than, let’s say, 0.001 degrees Celsius. (Because not even the climate change “experts” think anything short of drastic, worldwide emission cuts will lower temps more than that).
Maybe it’s like a Christmas present – just the thought that counts.
- Ladies and Gentlemen…
I present to you the honorable Governor Ruth Ann Minner.
Ummmm, it could also be Governor Ruth Ann Minners, husband.
uglier than a can of smashed assholes
- Motop
Messages for the Troops.. and this is the Family Resource Centre in Gagetown which supports the RCR families.
… and this is Red Fridays.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 02 23 at 09:49 PM • permalink
- It’s been pretty cold here in Germany the last week or two, and sure enough, the breathless “news” reports on TV are leading with random ‘climate change’ stories again, now that their previous “global warming is undoubtedly responsible for the warmer-than-normal winter” stories would be laughed at. (Of course, those should have been laughed at a month ago, too, but hey, this is Europe and people don’t question the news unless the errors are blatantly obvious.)
- If they were pining for snow, they should have told us. We would gladly have given them some of ours. Still would.Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 02 24 at 11:16 AM • permalink
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