Minnesota spring!
posted at 9:40 am on March 21, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Today is the first day of spring here in the Upper Midwest, and with Easter coming on Sunday, we looked forward to a bright, warm, wonderful explosion of life and color. We got it, too — as long as the color was white:
It’s not exactly what we had in mind. On the bright side, it will make hiding Easter eggs a lot easier this year ….
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Man. For real?
Y’know…down here in Texas, we color them before we hide them.
Just a friendly tip.
Typhoon on March 21, 2008 at 9:54 AM
You’ll find the eggs in May…
Shoveling global warming is good for the body…
right2bright on March 21, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Oh, um…
I probably read that wrong, huh?
My bad.
Typhoon on March 21, 2008 at 9:55 AM
And Al Gore says…
(crickets…)
4shoes on March 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM
What’s Al Gore Phone number, E-mail?
BL@KBIRD on March 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
I’ve been pointing out facts like this to everyone I hear talking about global warming. Record snow fall, a drop in ocean temperatures, etc. It’s just too bad that people who believe in the doomsday philosophy will only find a reason to justify it and continue destroying the economy. Here’s my big question: if radical changes in weather aren’t the norm on Earth, including massive warming periods, what caused the decline of a 2 mile thick sheet of ice covering North America and Northern Europe 12,000 years ago? Those hunter-gatherers and their damned CO2 emissions!
arteest on March 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Looks just like a Maine spring.
It’s a balmy 19 degrees up here (4 with the wind chill).
Slublog on March 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Spring in the Global Warming Era.
dentalque on March 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
How can you stand it in Minnesota? I’m told that there are so many lefty loons there that it makes Pennsylvania (where I live, which I think is lefty looney land) look like AynRandia.
RWLA on March 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
That’s what it looks like outside my house in upstate NY.
Connie on March 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM
They are talking 9 inches for Chicago today.
Global warming my a$$!
pilamaye on March 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM
You could be a real sadist and leave the eggs white too…
Seems also, whenever I ask anyone who believes in this man-made global waring, when I bring up things like this story above, or other instances of parts of the world being colder than normal, they come back with “Can’t you see…the coolong is part of it, part of climate change we’re responsible for.”
At least I get them to say “climate change” these days…it’s a start. But they were wrong in the 70’s about “global cooling” (to which they say it was just bad info)
JetBoy on March 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I’m in Milwaukee, and we’re getting the same treatment. Good Friday? What’s so good about it?
Enrique on March 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Heidi Cullen was unavailable for comment.
eeyore on March 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Its hard, very hard. Did you know that they are closing another bridge here before it falls down? Yep. Who are these contractors and architects designing and building this crap?
cjs1943 on March 21, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Um… about hiding Eosters eggs…Wouldn’t people just follow the foot prints? :)
I am waiting for the global warming doomdayers to start talking about how we all will die in a frozen wasteland. As soon as they can figure out how to pin the Suns cooling phase on the US it will be big news.
Probaly will have somethng to do with the cheneybushmchittlerburton conglomerate sucking the suns energy away with soler panels or some such nonsense.
Wyrd on March 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM
If it’s really that much like Scandinavia there (cold weather, liberalism run amok), why not change the state’s name to New Sweden?
jgapinoy on March 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
“Climate change.” Or as we used to call it, “weather.”
Slublog on March 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
5-6″ forecast here for Toledo. I’ve learned not to put my winter things away until the end of April at the earliest. This will kick this year’s winter into the top ten in snowiest. Three of which have come since 2000.
rbj on March 21, 2008 at 10:11 AM
That would really tell the true story wouldn’t it.
cjs1943 on March 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM
You KNOW you love the ever-lasting winter demon!
Capitana on March 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Or Scandawhovia.
CyberCipher on March 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM
And, somewhere in Minnesota, global-warming protesters are putting on their snow boots. :D
irishspy on March 21, 2008 at 10:16 AM
sheesh looks like my backyard here in new hampsha’ just last week. At least it’s a little nicer, you guys can keep your weather!
drift on March 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Global warming is causing a new ice age.
Beagle on March 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Gee, that looks just like the spring we have here in North Idaho. Must be man-made global warming. Someone alert John McCain.
jdawg on March 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Down here in Texas, it’s barbeque weather; 75 today. Of course, July is barbeque weather around here as well. You just don’t need charcoal then, as long as your grill is painted black and sitting in the sun.
michaelo on March 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Mind sending some of that snow to Norfolk VA? It was 65 yesterday, and I am feeling left out of the global warming snowfall craze.
Wyrd on March 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM
It’s going to be a balmy 81 in the PHX area today. Are you green with envy?
jgapinoy on March 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM
I spent the day in the sun running up and down the beach with my son in Carmel Ca. Sorry Al you cant ruin my spring.
TroubledMonkey on March 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I just drove to work in that. It always snows in March in MN – you can count on it – at least it’s in the 30’s now unlike the negatives we’ve been having up until early March. This has been one of the coldest, longest winters I can recall in my 10 years of living here.
foxforce91 on March 21, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Blame that dang Paschal Full Moon for the early Easter this year!
Brat on March 21, 2008 at 11:03 AM
By the way, where’s AP today? Is he taking off for Good Friday?
Brat on March 21, 2008 at 11:05 AM
My sister lives in northern Kentucky. Last week I talked to her and she said, “After the winter I’ve been though, if anyone says Global Warming to me, I will punch him in the face”. She’s had lots of rain, ice (twice), and more snow than usual.
Ellen on March 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM
It is a beautiful, sunny 56 in middle Tennessee right now. It’s absolutely gorgeous! And I just started my two-week vacation from the kiddies! WOOHOO! Time to get out the mower…
robblefarian on March 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM
That’s exactly what my 12 year old daughter asked her science teacher recently. He just gave her a cold stare.
My wife told me I need to tone it down a bit; says I’m turning our kid into a smartass.
Heh.
BacaDog on March 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM
jdawg on March 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Yep,
Big fat snow-flakes are falling in Eastern Washington, as we speak.
franksalterego on March 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Here in Western Oregon we’re picking up the climate change load for all you slackers in other parts of the country. Spring is in the early bloom stage and the moss is over running anything that isn’t moving.
Catfish on March 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I don’t know, there may be something to this global warming after all. Just the other day I was outside combing out the hair on my woolly mammoth and I actually saw the sun.
TooTall on March 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Here in Minnesota we keep our Liberas Leftosaurii penned up in special wildlife preserves. They are called “Minneapolis” and “St. Paul”.
Gideon7 on March 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM
I remember when I lived in the land of Minnesota nice knife in the back, or 10,000 lakes, one spring we had an ice storm. The whole town in which I lived was coated in ice. If anyone would have mentioned “global warming” to me while I was trying to chip the 1/2 inch ice cocoon off my car I would have hit them up side the head with a shovel.
Even to this day I fantasize about killing the snow plow driver.
Sammy316 on March 21, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Oh, man. I’m glad that my spring break was last week. That would have been a tough drive.
Global Warming!
Jeff_McAwesome on March 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM
All I can say is “Thank God for global warming!” because how bad would it be if weren’t doing our part right now pumping out that CO2? Would we have glaciers coming down from Canada mowing down everything in sight?…;-)
Planet Boulder on March 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM
I emailed some friends in Milwaukee and they’re just getting mad about all the snow. Heh. That’s why I live in the (moderately) warmer Kansas City area. Suckers.
Badger in KC on March 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Did I see a penguin drowning in the background?
29Victor on March 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Glad you posted the pic, Ed. It saves me from posting my Snow Bowl pic :-)
Badger in KC, I’m one of those who are mad about the snow (and the taxes, and the clueless politicians, and the Fifth Column at Fourth and State, and…).
steveegg on March 21, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Like my father always told me “It is better to be a smartass than a dumdass”.
joeswampy on March 21, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Heh, why live in MN? Because I’m an Irish Catholic ultra conservative, Philly transplant Marine from the Vietnam era. Every thing the liberals here hate. Why wouldn’t I be in MN? I love a good fight……In fact I sent a response to an editorial written by a dimbulb who wants us to turn our lights out for one hour to conserve energy. I said go nuclear. That oughta drive Minnesotans nuts.
MNDavenotPC on March 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Nice picture Ed. You have posted a few like these lately. But what does it prove? I have pictures of the fall colors in the mid Atlantic states coming 1 month later then usual this past fall. In Delaware some trees still had leaves on them a week before Christmas when they are usually gone by Thanksgiving. There is this item about NY city, Lack of January Snow Is a First in 75 Years. Philadelphia received less then 1 inch of snow this year while the average is 21. Your pictures and my facts don’t prove anything about climate change. This thread is just “red meat” for the base.
Chimpy on March 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Sorry Ed, I’ll think about you poor scmucks this weekend while I am down here by Houston bar-b-queing and drinking a cold one in 75 degree weather. (Hey I have to brag now, in a month it will be hotter than hell itself down here and you guys will be bragging about your 75 degree weather)
conservnut on March 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM
It’s all cyclical. One thing is certain though, in the next coming months and years, it will get warm and then hot, very hot. The it will get warm again and then cold, very cold. Then it will get warm again, very warm and then hot. Then it will get warm, and then cold, very cold, and then….
Kini on March 21, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Now, her, I would vote for President someday. What an intelligent kid. Every time I come across some arrogant tree-hugging bleeding heart wussbag preaching about “Catastrophic Global Climate Change,” I ask what the cavemen did to cause it to end the ice age. Answer? 99% of the time: (crickets. . .) or at best: uh??
Dood, are you simple? Throughout the hundreds of billions of years the Earth has existed, you don’t think that the climate changed until man discovered industrialization a hundred years ago? Was the ecosystem stagnant all those years until we, with our super polluting habits, came along and destroyed it? And furthermore, do you really believe that if we caused that much damage in a hundred years to significantly alter the planets ecosystem that we’re going to get rid of the problem by driving hybrids and buying CFL’s? And is it likely in any way that we’ll get the collective support of 300 some odd billion people on the planet (many of which don’t even know what the idea of “Global Climate Change” means) to counter these apocalyptic transgressions of our recently deceased ancestors?
Bottom line: if you honestly believe in MANMADE global climate change – you are a MORON. Simple enough to understand? This hoax was created to prey on the naivety and paranoia of the average lemming; a group which you, coincidentally, are a card-carrying member of.
Congratulations – you’ve been had!
bizznatch14 on March 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM
steveegg, I feel your pain. No, really, I do.
Badger in KC on March 21, 2008 at 1:36 PM
OMFG! Dude, you’ve like totally disproved teh global warming! Holy crap, if it hadn’t been for you, nobody would have thunk of the Ice Age. Liberals, you know, they are brain dead. Personally I expect thousands quitting their tenure-track positions beginning next Monday once they have heard this 100% bullet-proof argument!
Al Gore must die! Newton, I hope you’re a Tory. Or are you? Gravity, right? Wrong! How about balloons?!!!! Eat this!
freevillage on March 21, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Yep Ed, I’m in MN too.. snowing here as well..
North of the cities.
Chakra Hammer on March 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Windows Vista Sidebar gadget says 30Degrees and flurries, and snow for tomorrow also..
Chakra Hammer on March 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM
I rest my case. . .
bizznatch14 on March 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM
five inches of wet snow on my deck in Eagan….. I love spring!
MNDavenotPC on March 21, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Montana spring?
Snow for the past two days. Thank YOU, global warming/cooling/weather/whatevs.
mjk on March 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Looking for global warming and end up with new species, and larger then normal because of cold temperatures and high level of oxygen.
Interesting, but not surprising…every time they look for warming, they find cooling.
right2bright on March 21, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Re: bizznatch14 on March 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM
I think you missed this line in my comment that your bitching about.
“Your pictures and my facts don’t prove anything about climate change.“
Chimpy on March 21, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Still Snowing north of the cities..(flurries)
Chakra Hammer on March 21, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Oh hey, heh, I see what you did there. Brilliant!
Nobody is disputing ‘climate change’. The world has been going through climate changes since its beginning. The problem is that most people don’t even realize that Earth has gone through no less than 7 ice ages, including one that froze the entire planet solid. But that’s ok, keep believing Al Gore that we are to blame for rising temperatures. It’s not like he has anything to gain for it. Why, he even buys carbon offsets to atone for his sins… from his OWN COMPANY. We should listen to him from those years of learning to be a climatologist! How about those melting polar caps on Mars? The Untied States of Amerikkka and George Bush are to blame!!! Blindly following do-gooders makes me feel good inside!
arteest on March 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM
So you are one of the few now that believe warming trends are caused by us humans? We are the ones that cause climate change?
You do realize that most of the scientists (climatologists) are now backing away from that idea (of man made global warming). Liberal die hards won’t give it up, but the scientists have began to abandon the sinking global warming ship…
And now that we have found out the water is actually colder then reported, you are convinced of what? and on what evidence? Check the March 19, 5:43 Hot Air archives, rad and learn…
right2bright on March 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
I did decide to drag out the camera. The only thing that changed in the 3 hours since that pic is another few inches of snow.
steveegg on March 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM
The oceans are cooling and the scientists find that puzzling. Why? What scientists? Getting the Jr Chemistry set when eight years old doesn’t count on your degree. (Al)
oakpack on March 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Warming…GOOOD!!! Cooling…BAD!!!
I’m looking forward to lots of charcoal and hickory grilling!!! Bring on the steaks!!! Bring me a CO2-laced beverage!!! Insect repellent in CFC-propelled spray cans!!!
Bask in the warm sun!!! The only thing we truly need to fear is liberal-induced global stupidity and reglaciation!!!
landlines on March 21, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Here on a hilltop in central New Hampshire I have measured over 13 and a half feet of global warming since December 1, 2007. Luckily I have a former Corps of Engineers guy living across the road with a payloader, who has been graciously “shoveling” my driveway. I now have a 12 foot tall mountain of snow next to said driveway.
About a week ago I planted a Hawaii state flag at the summit in hopes it would provide some kahuna to melt the snow. It blew away today in a 50 mph wind gust, so I replaced it with one from the country of Nepal. That one seems to be staying put.
Del Dolemonte on March 21, 2008 at 6:35 PM
That frozen tree makes me kinda homesick.
One thing about the whole “Global Warming” hysteria that I can’t quite figure out… What exactly is the monster under the bed?
1. More malaria due to an expanded tropical zone? That’s bogus because one of the biggest outbreaks ever was in Siberia. And, as anyone who has been to MN would know, mosquitoes are the State Bird. How much worse could it actually get?
2. Major loss of polar bears? So… more ice is good for polar bears and less ice is bad? Hmmmm… not buying that one.
3. Major coastal flooding? If that happened it would be a big deal. In order for this to happen it would require a massive increase in ocean temperature for a very long period of time. Long as in centuries.
Number 3 would be the worst of all. Especially for Babs. Doesn’t she have some sort of ocean front palace here in SoCal? No wonder she’s so worried about it.
But, seriously, let’s look at that last one a little closer. Those along the coast would be negatively affected, but those who live further inland might one day find that they are the proud owners of freshly made beach front property. Not to mention, increased temperatures on that scale would open up vast new territories of land currently under ice.
New areas for living, farming, mining, etc. One of the problems with the Canadian tar sands is that they are so inhospitable and remote that it’s hard for people to work there. A bunch of global warming would have so many people wanting to move there they could squeeze oil out of the sand for a hobby and still do well.
Conversely, what would happen if it gets colder rather than warmer? Far more people die each year from cold than from heat. What would all those veggie eaters do when they have to ration out the lettuce? Our farmable land area would converge on the tropical zones. Wouldn’t we then have to cut down all the rain forests in order to plant corn so we can keep making ethanol? Oh, and for food too.
Will the windmills work when they are covered in ice? What about all the power we get from hydroelectric dams? I guess we could celebrate the return of the glaciers. At least until they grind our homes into kindling. But at least the polar bears will be happy.
I guess I could just sum up by saying that if I actually had the ability to choose between a world warmer or colder than we currently have, I’d go with warmer every time.
But, since we have nothing to do with the climate, it’s all academic anyway.
TheCulturalist on March 21, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Neither does anything you or anybody else has posted. You want to know about the causes of climate change? Look up in the sky and see that little bright globe.
The primitive people that worshiped the sun had a better grasp on the cause of climate change then do us modern folk.
docdave on March 22, 2008 at 9:39 AM
docdave, you’ve hit the nail on the head! They want to tax, spend and regulate us back to the Stone Age so we can rediscover our lost knowledge. Brilliant!
TheCulturalist on March 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM
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