Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Gore Effect kicks in, plus ça change …

(T)he “Gore Effect”, which says that wherever His Nobelity Albert Gore III might hold a Climastravaganza to remind the world of the critical and imminent climate overheating that we can only avert by sending him some more money, it will be way below the average temperature for that location and time. - Watts Up With That?


Heck, even Antarctica can’t resist the Gore effect. Case in point? Big Al, along with the failed serial doomcaster James Hansen and billionaire Richard Branson, are currently in the Weddell Sea, off the Antarctic Peninsula, just chillin’ with the penguins.... if you look at Figure 1, you’ll see that the area right where they are is running about 15°C (27°F) colder than normal … and normal even in the summer is kinda cold to start with.

Europe's cold snap spreads west - CNN

The cold snap that wreaked havoc on eastern and central Europe this week moved west on Saturday, triggering a rare snowfall in Rome and prompting Heathrow Airport to cancel some flights.

Ukraine appears to be the worst affected so far, with Poland, Romania, Serbia and Belarus also suffering much more severe winter conditions than usual.

A total of 122 people have frozen to death in Ukraine since the cold spell started more than a week ago, the state-run news agency Ukrinform reported, citing government ministries. More than 1,500 people have been hospitalized, it said.

In Rome, residents woke up to snow for the first time since 1985. The rare precipitation caused traffic jams and left some people stranded.

While further west, in London, Heathrow Airport said it would cancel approximately 30% of its flights on Sunday in response to the winter weather.

Tragic winter weather in Europe doesn’t fit the Mannian narrative... a bitterly cold winter in Europe with snow reaching into northern Africa which has caused nearly three hundred deaths. You can decide who’s committing “journalistic malpractice”. - Watts Up With That?

Heaviest snow ever in Bosnia - News24