Posted on 01/27/2015 6:20:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In politics, much as with a Broadway chorus line, timing is everything. That’s a lesson that current EPA Director, Gina McCarthy will probably take to heart after this one. As the northeast braces for what is being described as a potentially historic snowstorm, Ms. McCarthy spent the beginning of her weekend huddling with environmental activists with a clear message. These climate change deniers will ruin the ski industry because we’re going to run out of snow.
The Environmental Protection Agency, Aspen Skiing Co., and a pair of Olympic snowboarders teamed up Thursday to help spread the word about climate change and the threat it poses to winter sports, tourism, and recreation in the Aspen area and beyond.
Gina McCarthy, administrator for the EPA, Mike Kaplan, CEO for SkiCo, and athletes Alex Deibold and Gretchen Bleiler spoke before a crowd of around 30 at the base of Aspen Mountain about the environmental and economic impacts of global warming.
McCarthy praised SkiCo’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and address larger issues of climate change. She also thanked Bleiler for showing her around Buttermilk, calling the five-time X Games medalist her “hero.”
McCarthy pointed out that winter sports athletes like Deibold and Bleiler can help inform the younger generations on the dangers of climate change, which can be devastating for mountain town economies.
“It’s a big, base-bottom deal for our economy,” she said. “So let’s get off our butts, let’s work together, let’s start taking action. These guys are going to reach the young people, I’m going to keep yapping at the older ones, and someone’s going to get the middle, and we are going to make things happen.”
Meanwhile, in completely unrelated news, more than 2,000 airline flights have been cancelled. The Big Apple has already begun shutting down the subways and the commuter trains. Boston has cancelled school until at least Thursday before more than the first few flakes have come down. And tens of millions are stocking up in case the power is out until the weekend.
The bottom line is that the weather is frequently wild and unpredictable. But if you’re in the Obama administration and you want to go around giving speeches about the evils of carbon emissions, you need to keep an eye on the optics. Global warming has essentially stalled for over a decade, and scientists are still struggling to work out what’s going on. But when you are fighting to push regulatory restrictions based on science which is still up in the air, the public will frequently believe their own lying eyes rather than what you have to say.
Timing is everything. Work on that when you get home, Ms. Mcarthy… assuming you can get a flight.
Well, the storm did seem to vanish....
I still think that all of this “global warming” is a result of all of the flatulence coming out of McCarthy and her EPA.
COME SHOVEL MY DRIVEWAY WITH 2 FEET OF SNOW..... SO FAR
cant predict the weather but can make 100 year CLIMATE PROJECTIONS...
lets save lots of wasted research $$$
the SUN heats the oceans and causes currents that effect the weather... man’s contribution to CO2 is less than 2% the alleged culprit although studies have shown methane to be more involved and ozone and volcanoes and other natural sources....
The gore climate bobblheads are a cult, a pagan religion, with al the self annointed self appointed high priest... Oh and the Obamas, Clintoons, Gores, Bushs, the British Royal family , the Rothschilds and Soros and other wealthy people (flew 1700 jets to Davos to socialize, each one spewing more thatn 100 automobiles in a year) the wealthy .01% have set up carbon trading/offset exchanges where they make TRILLIONS over the years... So WAKE UP.. IT’S A HOAX TO FLECE THE SHEEP.... BHAAA BHAAA
Another liberal psychopath in charge of a huge government bureaucracy.
All I know is that if I worked for the Weather Channel, I’d be in hiding this morning. What an embarrassment.
They use the same excuse for everything: global warming.
Too much snow.
Too little snow.
Too many hurricanes.
Too few hurricanes.
Too many storms and tornadoes.
Too fuew storms and tornadoes.
Too hot of a summer.
Too cool of a summer.
Too warm of a winter.
Too cold of a winter.
etc.
When all else fails, they blame it on: global climate change.
[Idiots. Climate change began when the Earth started spinning and circling the Sun.]
God has a sense of humor.
I lived 3 blocks from where I worked, so I stayed at work for several hours to avoid the massive traffic.
Tulsa got almost nothing but some cold weather — which was typical for ‘winter’. There were a few small snowflakes drifting around.
Of course, the next day all those public and private officials were claiming they would rather have been safe than sorry.
Online weather predicted 2 to 3 feet for my friend in Westfield NJ. They got 4 inches.
It's true it didn't do much to NYC and NJ, but I can tell you, it's a whopper of a storm further north. On Cape Cod, it's blowing like crazy and there's about 18 inches, maybe a bit more. Inland, most places in MA, interior CT, and further north will get over 2 feet.
You don’t have to be a scientist to understand that a 0.01% change in our atmosphere is not going to cause mass catastrophe. You don’t even really have to be smart.
It’s amazing how many people I talk to believe that CO2 is 33% - 50% of our atmosphere. Then the global warming cultists tell them, “CO2 has increased by 30%!”
Yeah, that does sound bad if you haven’t taken twenty seconds to do a search for, “How much CO2 is in our atmosphere?”
Political scientist are struggling to explain the pause. Real scientist know exactly what is occurring.
Track shifted east and spared the Yankees but is dumping on the new englanders.
Gore Effect alert !!!
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