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.
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We're used to snowfall amounts like this in NYS. It's just another winter for us.....
Hey, obama and RFK Jr., how's that global warming thing working out for you?
Yeah I really feel for the people who got hit with the last storm further south. They are just not setup to handle that much snow. Here we are fairly used to these kinds of storms, so it shouldn’t have as much of an impact.
Of course I don’t think we are are going to be the hardest hit area. In any event, I plan to do do a bit of pantry re-stocking this afternoon.
I think they're having a harder and harder time convincing anyone else of that....
Well....hopefully the rising sea levels might help push the snow back some ;-)
If he’s never considered it, he may want to look at shoveling his roof off. We used to have to do it a couple times a years where we used to live in the lake effect snow belt, and we weren’t the only ones. On the days that were nice enough to do do that, I could look around and see two or three other people on their roofs doing the same thing.
Nor’easter snow is particularly wet and heavy and any significant amount of snow can collapse a roof pretty easily. It happened in our old town on occasion, and people knew better. There was one town I heard of where the DPW roof collapsed from the snow load, and THEY ought to have known better if anyone did.
You’ll be hearing reports of this happening if this keeps up much more.
LOL, yes the locals are all planning on that rather than actually shoveling and clearing the snow.
“Well, LI Sound is just going to rise another 5 feet in minutes and wash it all away, so WTH, why should I deal with this now.”
Uhhhh...Louise...Newt is a believer, not a skeptic. Remember "The Couch"?
We have the material here for a wildly funny sketch where the warmist keeps getting hit in the face by blasts of snow as he or she makes their AGW announcement.
They must have gone to public schools with NEA union teachers.
Climate conference on Global Warming in Copenhagen in December.
Now announcing the climate office in February.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL AUGUST 9TH INSTEAD OF FEB 9th
I really believe Obama wont release any of his college transcripts because he never graduated.
But, given my real education by the Washington Times, the Cato Institute, Free Republic, etc., if I do pursue graduate studies, at least I'll have a strong shield against all the stupid.
Hopefully, “Son of Snowmageddon” will send these people running to the hills like little girls.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
How about since 1998? Oh yeah, that shows global cooling. Lazy reporters!
Yeah and Boston too! The last one missed us....
Yeah, I had to shovel all that Global Warming (TM) off my deck yesterday, so that it wouldn’t collapse. But I’ll be glad to do it again and again, if only repeated snow-latherings would drive these nuts down south into the arms of their ideological brethren and sisteren in places like Austin, TX (but hopefully not anywhere else in TX).
As I understand it, collapses tend to happen to flat roofs. Mine has a mild slope, and didn’t seem to have all that much snow on it (maybe a foot, which is less than half of the truly dangerous 2+ feet on the deck.).
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