Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/09/2010 5:43:33 AM PST by crosshairs
As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.
NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office. “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.
Earlier snowmelt? That would be nice.
Turns out the release was planned prepared ahead of the snowstorm, which shut federal agencies today and forced its senders to hold a press conference by telephone instead of at the National Press Club.
It’s not the first time inclement weather has put a chill on official efforts to tackle climate change. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to leave the Copenhagen summit early in December to get back to D.C. before the blizzard known as Snowpocalypse grounded all flights.
We know how this argument goes: Climate change-skeptics such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says that the weather conditions prove that “global warming” is a hoax; activists say that scientists are looking at longer-lasting weather patterns.
But, says NOAA spokesman Justin Kenney, they’re happy to have a chance to educate people about the difference between the climate and the weather.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
Climate change. Global Warming is so 2009.
Too bad these people don’t feel any shame whatsoever. How long can people keep saying 2+2=5 and continue to believe it?
Let's see. It is cold in the winter and warm in the summer.
that depends. In South America, it’s the same thing only different..:)
Americans are a bunch of big dummies who need to be "educated" by the government.
OH NOEZ!!!!! That means they are having global warmin in South America as we speak!
What’s wrong with “longer growing seasons”? With fewer farmers than ever, and America feeding the world, I fail to understand how that becomes a “problem”.
Academic pencil-neck twits...
Global Warming is an IQ test.
Because they get rewarded handsomely for promulgating bosh and nonsense. They’ve forsaken all integrity for the spoils. Evil lucre has lured them in.
I’ll stick with The Farmer’s Almanac.
“NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement”
Sometimes I think God is delightfully rubbing their noses in it, proving He does have a sense of humor!
Longer growing seasons mean that less people will die of starvation and there will be less genocidal wars, thereby increasing the population of the earth. These global warming nuts want nature to survive and man to become extinct.
Personally I am hoping that Washington gets about 200 feet of packed snow and that the snow hardens into a glacier.
Me too. This repeated hammering of the DC & NYC areas is making me smile for that reason.
No offense to you guys over there having to deal with it, my own brother included. He’s digging out from 2 1/2 ft last weekend and expecting a foot more, says the drifts are up to some roofs in his neighborhood (between DC & Baltimore).
Will the “Climate Service” have special uniforms ?
It looks like NY is going to get it this time, though.
NYZ062-PAZ043-044-047-048-072-100845-
SULLIVAN-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-
343 AM EST TUE FEB 9 2010
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 AM EST
THURSDAY...
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND
NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
ping
Yeah they are gearing up the snow plows here on the CT shoreline. Last I heard though, the prediction is for ~10 inches (with high winds), which is a major storm, but nothing to write national headlines about.
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