Global warming alert!
posted at 6:10 pm on October 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Over the last two weeks, the weather has turned rapidly in Minnesota from one of the mildest summers on recent record to a cold and blustery fall. We’ve been griping about it, but maybe we should have counted our blessings. I just took a look at the five-day forecast for the Twin Cities and found this:
Snow on October 9th? That’s less than three weeks into autumn. Last year, we didn’t get snow until the weekend before Halloween. Looks like a long winter of global warming coming our way this year….
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Say it with me…. CLIMATE CHANGE.
tetriskid on October 6, 2009 at 6:11 PM
But Ed, you just don’t understand TEH SCIENCE. You see, global warming CAUSES colder winters. Don’t question it.
Red Cloud on October 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM
It’s the same here in good ol’ Montana. We should be getting a metric crapload of snow tomorrow.
mjk on October 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Racist!
Khun Joe on October 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Just heard that September this year, for the Sioux Falls area, averaged almost 10 degrees below normal….
(Yeah, them’s Fahrenheit degrees — so call it 5, for the science crowd….)
notropis on October 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Don’t you racist right wing nuts understand that global warming, not to mention racism, also causes unseasonable cooling?
/sarc
orlandocajun on October 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Soros pays Joe Romm on Climate Progress to warn of uncredible heating. He also is funneling money to ACORN. ACORN starts burning records, the heat will be back.
seven on October 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM
I predicted snow by the 10th up here Ed.
Wanna place a wager on who gets snow first?
upinak on October 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM
But Charles Johnson assured me global warming is true!
Darth Executor on October 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM
The science is settled.
The debate is ovah.
thebrokenrattle on October 6, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Haven’t you heard…”global warming” is so 2008…all that early snow is proof that man is destroying the planet or something…just like the fake hockey stick graph proved it…the fact that we exist at all is proof that we are destroying the planet, as a matter of fact.
AUINSC on October 6, 2009 at 6:17 PM
That isn’t snow you see, that’s evidence of “global warming.”
Suspend all your disbelief, pay your tithe to the church of climate change, kneel before the minister of the church–Al Gore. Deliver your tithe to that church and minister in your new green prius and if you speaketh or thinketh of any moreth of thith sthkeptithism, then you sthall be banisthed and excommunicated from the human populathion.
There thall be a church bake thale this weekend and a paint drive to purchathe more white paint to paint the roofs of the poor to protect against thith further travesty.
kneel before zod.
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM
We got snow in Wyoming! The leaves haven’t even turned colors yet. They are still green. I guess they thought we were in global warming mode too.
WyoMike on October 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I don’t know why you climate change deniers are allowed to voice your opinions.
Free speech only applies to you if you agree with the agenda.
/s
With the heat index our temperature today was 101 degrees. (Sunny south Florida)
VibrioCocci on October 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Well, what all those “global warming” suckers call “climate change”, we just refer to as either “seasons”, or alternatively “the weather” around these parts.
Al Gore and his ilk still can’t explain what happened to that 4000 foot thick sheet of ice that covered Yellowstone Park (3500 square miles!) a mere 20,000 years ago (the blink of an eye in geological terms). Mastadon flatulence?
bannedbyhuffpo on October 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM
BTW, this may be sign that Algore is coming to town soon.
AUINSC on October 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Well Ed, sounds like you’re going to be shoveling a whole lot of global warming from your walkway this winter.
theCork on October 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Please get word to the White House to set the Oval Office thermometer to 79deg F immediately before a sudden and unexpected droppage of a degree.
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM
This just proves that we need to cap carbon emissions and tax everything and everyone into submission. If you don’t agree, report to your nearest IRS agent for admission into the nearest concentration camp where you will have to watch fascist pig videos of obama till your head asplodes.
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Spiritk9 on October 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Oh no, Ed. Hopefully this is just a little tease. Good grief.
Cindy Munford on October 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I need to move to Minnesota… its 70+ here…
Wolftech on October 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM
How are those lack of Sun spots working out for ‘ya….?
Seven Percent Solution on October 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM
no no no, it’s “CLIMATE CHANGE”. You are seeing the effects of “CLIMATE CHANGE“.
My climate starts to change about this time most every year too…
JusDreamin on October 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Hey, it’s only been raining for seven straight freakin’ days in my area of Minnesota with more days to come, might as well make my depression complete and give me snow by the end of the week.
Bishop on October 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I live in San Diego and people noticed the slip in temperatures. I slept with my window open all summer then one day I woke up shivering at 3AM. Don’t get me wrong but it is still San Diego but the light jackets usually do not come out until Novenber if at all.
Theworldisnotenough on October 6, 2009 at 6:23 PM
But Ed, you have to see that there wouldn’t be enough airborne water to make all that snow if the ice caps hadn’t been melting due to global warning.
Intuitive!
James on October 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Tonight’s forecast …….. dark.
fogw on October 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I call it ‘Warning Weather’, it gives you a kick in the seat and speeds up the winterizing.
thomasaur on October 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Ed, you dolt. Weather is not temperature, climate is not weather and the real forecast is you are going to melt when you go out side next year, or maybe the one after that.
kahall on October 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM
And Charles’ doctor assured him that this combination/dosage would work. Oh, well… maybe it’ll get better under Oh,bummer-Care.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:29 PM
what will the UN IPCC do now that the last leg supporting the hoax has been felled. What they always do, lie.
tarpon on October 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Don’t you realize, you can’t look at weather or temperature patterns? Not even if you take the entire northern hemisphere into consideration.
Only cum-poot-eerr models can determine whether or not global warming is real.
You see, cum-poot-eerrs are mystical devices from which the fountain of truth springs. No mere mortal can possibly fathom the complex intricate goodness in such a device’s creamy center.
It’s magic and the magic device says there is global warming. Debate over.
jhffmn on October 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM
If we don’t pass a cap and tax bill soon, the weather will continue to change day to day! I vote for 68 with more sun than clouds every day. Once the weather is the same everyday, we will all be less racist also.
smrtas1 on October 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM
While we all know weather is something different than climate, that people who don’t have and government’s greedy, cynical interests still believe the fairy tale of anthropogenic global warming continues to amaze me. You really can fool some of the people all of the time, even as they’re shoveling all evidence to the contrary off their driveways.
Rational Thought on October 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Gosh Ed, you must live in the tropics. Here in Central Oregon we had our first snow on Sunday the 3rd. We had 4 to 7 inches in Bend. Most of it has melted off by now but it was a shock to wake up Sunday and see it.
Agent of the Cross on October 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM
It’s Bush’s fault.
Beaglemom on October 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM
I think we’re going to have another one of those inconvenient temperature type of winters. The dolts will have their meetings and conventions about global warming while blizzards rage outside the convention hall.
Mojave Mark on October 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM
One 90 degree day this summer, NONE last summer, PROOF it’s warming up.
Jeff from WI on October 6, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Man, I’m really tired of being right about global warming being a hoax. This summer sucked. I call it “the summer that wasn’t”, and now it’s predicted that we may be looking at the coldest winter in a decade. Delightful.
RightWinged on October 6, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Ed, just get out the hockey sticks.
Oh that’s right, the hockey stick, reportedly, was a fraud.
If true – as it appears – that’s a huge story.
SteveMG on October 6, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Racist Snow Fighting Obama Environmental Goals
Jeff from WI on October 6, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Ed, you are so lucky. Growing up in Iowa and now living in Florida I miss the snow.
Maybe Algore will have a climate change conference in Pensacola and it’ll snow this year. Otherwise I get to look forward to several months of brown. Dull depressing brown.
Enjoy it while you can.
milwife88 on October 6, 2009 at 6:35 PM
We had snow here in New Hampshire last week. BTW, the foliage up here this year is AWESOME!
Del Dolemonte on October 6, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Rusty’s got your foliage right here pal.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3561347550_1661fe9c2e.jpg?v=0
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:38 PM
The Science is settled!
Man is killing Gaia.
The only solution is massive tax rises so that we can cripple the economy and stop an act of cosmic genocide.
Our children and their children will thank us from round the tables of their mud huts.
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iamse7en on October 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Ed, you have to know that this is just further proof of global warming. You know why?
Because Global Warming is tricky like that.
WWS on October 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
simply stuff you dummy:
If it is WARM, blame GLOBAL WARMING
If it is COLD, blame GLOBAL WARMING
Got it????
SDarchitect on October 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
You’re going to be 2 days ahead of me – snow is slated for Milwaukee Sunday night.
steveegg on October 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM
That’s not the
global warmingclimate change I knew.txag92 on October 6, 2009 at 6:42 PM
That pretty much sums up the left’s view.
How can man not be destroying the planet? Duh.
jhffmn on October 6, 2009 at 6:42 PM
I knew global warming. And you, climate change, are no global warming.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Maybe global warming went to Rio.
Ronnie on October 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Somewhere, in a dark room, Al Gore is cursing Mother Earth…..’I said NO snow this year, our position is precarious, woman!’
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Those of us in the great Republic of Texas say “Ha!”
cibolo on October 6, 2009 at 6:44 PM
A minor victory, but still a win never the less:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/05/united-nations-pulls-hockey-stick-from-climate-report/#more-11504
Never fear, they’ll dream something else up.
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 6:45 PM
And yet I heard a report today from some gubbmint agency that predicted that people heating with natural gas would be putting out about $150 less this winter in heating bills due to the predicted mild winter in store for us. They neglected to say who made that prediction though. Just a simple oversight I’m sure.
Oldnuke on October 6, 2009 at 6:46 PM
It’s snowing in October. Therefore, global warming is a myth.
Sincerely,
Science.
YYZ on October 6, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I attribute this to a phenomenon I called Global Lukewarming.
Temperatures rise, temperatures fall, years are long, and the earth is a damn big place. As such, of course we’re going to run into the occasional “unseasonable weather” or even record setting climate conditions now and then.
Average it all out, and what do you get? The same damn thing year after year. We get a nice, average, moderate…lukewarm, if you will..set of climate conditions.
The hot and the cold effectively cancel each other out, no matter how many record breaking hot/cold temperatures we encounter. Too bad the idiocy of global cooling isn’t vast enough to cancel out the idiocy of global warming.
ynot4tony2 on October 6, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Global warming is regarded by the sheeple as true, by those who can think for themselves as false and by the power mad and money grubbers as … … useful … … very useful in their pathological quest to filch more power and more money to themselves.
MB4 on October 6, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Well of course snow is racist. Look how white it is.
Oldnuke on October 6, 2009 at 6:48 PM
But what does Bob Barker say?
Come on down….
SteveMG on October 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Global warming is a reality based on computer models that worked out last year but don’t model well this year and so are ignored.
Sincerely,
Pseudo Science.
Bishop on October 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Oct. 9th in Nebraska too…crap!
serenity on October 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Pretty much the same thing as Dave: “Wanna see the vies from upstairs, honey?”
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM
view… dang it.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM
We’ve already had a foot of snow since Sunday night here in western South Dakota.
I remember hoping back in the 70′s, when I was in high school and everyone was going on about the “Future Man-Made Ice Age”, that they were wrong. I hoped that if I lived to see the 20th century, we wouldn’t have billions of people dying from famine, that every animal wouldn’t be extinct, the skies wouldn’t be black with soot, the rivers wouldn’t be flowing with radioactive waste, and I wouldn’t have to cross a glacier to get to work.
It looks like they got lucky on predicting the glacier part.
Lily on October 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Hang on there, the Leftys in the UK have the solution:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6248257/Planned-recession-could-avoid-catastrophic-climate-change.html
Remember, Teh One boasted how Amerika has reduced it’s GHG’s so much in the last 9 months.
Joblessness is good for Gaia don’t ya know.
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 6:55 PM
People on both sides make their cases sound stupid when they cite specific weather instances like this. Claiming that snow in October means anything at all in the debate is like Al Gore claiming that Katrina has anything to do with it. People should stick to the scientific debate if they want to be taken seriously.
I know this is mostly a light-hearted comment by Ed, but the commenters seem to take it seriously, as does Drudge when he links to these things (at least that’s how I interpret it).
tneloms on October 6, 2009 at 6:56 PM
The real reason the hockey stick curve is dead is that it’s finally been proven that the curve is due to the presence of one specific tree in the data set. Its tree ring growth was such an outlier that it distorted the whole result. And a lot of more reasonable trees were excluded. Talk about cherry-picking your data to get predicted results!
Anyway, if you’re not living near that tree, you’ll get a cold winter.
NeighborhoodCatLady on October 6, 2009 at 6:57 PM
The changing of the climate and the things of this nature.
/Arnold Schwarzenegger
Seixon on October 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM
They’ve been working their ‘regressive modelling’ through NHS dentistry.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM
I’m thinking it’s the same crowd that’s predicting a 10 degree temperature rise by 2100.
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Global warming, smarming!
MCGIRV on October 6, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Carbon dioxide causes an increase in temperature. We know this because we used carbon dioxide to determine the temperature over thousands of years.
A proves B. B proves A.
Science?
Ronnie on October 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM
WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE , WINGNUTS!!!….er… unless it’s a hot spell in the summer then it’s proof of ‘global warming’. The science is settled. Oh,.. and fire won’t melt steel. That science is settled, too.
Wingnuts.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on October 6, 2009 at 7:01 PM
simply stuff you dummy:
If it is WARM, blame GLOBAL WARMING
If it is COLD, blame GLOBAL WARMING
Got it????
SDarchitect on October 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
NO NO NO !! You have it all wrong !Have you not been paying attention !! *sigh* One more time…..
If it is unseasonably WARM, it’s called GLOBAL WARMING
If it is unbearably COLD, it’s called CLIMATE CHANGE
There ! Don’t make me have to repeat it again !!
/
cableguy615 on October 6, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Excuse me, but we’re flinging poo here. Could you be a little bit less of a buzz-kill?
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM
The weather in your back yard is not indicative of climate.
harry on October 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM
I hope they offer a shot of whiskey with that.
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM
It is, however, a pretty good indicator of whether someone needs a slappin’.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Unless there’s like a hurricane or something in your back yard — then it’s totally indicative.
Ronnie on October 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM
So where does leave ‘climate justice’?
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM
This is what I’m told.
So “1984″ it is scary.
It must cause cooler summers also! O_o
IowaWoman on October 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Send some of that to Texas. The Houston are please. I’m sick of the a/c running. ;)
capejasmine on October 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM
CPT. Charles on October 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 7:07 PM
As someone who’s endured enough of the scientific method to kill a normal man, I see where you’re coming from…but I think you’re either missing or glossing over the point.
How many true believers of global warming do you know that point out record warm days as evidence (or worse yet, “proof”) that global warming is indeed a fact of life? I would guess, “most of them.”
I’m not speaking for others, but when I point to unseasonably cold weather, it’s not to say, “See, global warming is a myth,” but more to say, “See, your evidence is meaningless.”
Then again, too many true believers honestly believe they can physically notice the weather getting warmer. Sure…humans can’t detect the rise of 10 degrees over the matter of a few hours…but somehow these geniuses are so in tune with the temperature that they can notice a change of 1/50 of a degree in a year, in spite of all the up and down temperatures that come in between.
ynot4tony2 on October 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Hey, we didn’t have any hurricanes this year…I blame Bush, and those evil energy corporations and those insurance companies that are rolling in dough and keeping Teh Won’s healthcare bill from passing.
Oldnuke on October 6, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Its Bush’s fault
macncheez on October 6, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Belief in global warming = Trutherism?
Come on, now.
YYZ on October 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Hey if you don’t like the cold Minnesota weather, you can always move here to AZ (we’ve got lots of houses for sale now, at bargain prices).
Forecast for Oct 9th in my neighborhood: sunny and 90 degrees.
AZCoyote on October 6, 2009 at 7:14 PM
I just sort of ask myself “What was it that ended the Ice Age, and did we have anything to do with it?
Oldnuke on October 6, 2009 at 7:14 PM
I tell you, Cap’n Ed: this is fast becoming a recurring series.
Of course, the perfect cartoon for the series applies here!
newton on October 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Find me a truther who doesn’t believe in global warming.
Ronnie on October 6, 2009 at 7:16 PM
I remember waking up on my birthday (10/12) in 1988 to three inches of snow in southern Ohio. Nothing new.
Oldnuke on October 6, 2009 at 7:11 PM
We had two hurricanes breeze by Massachusetts – ruined the Precedent’s weekend on the Vineyard. What I was told by the old timers around here is that if you have a cold winter (2009) and the Atlantic stays cold you have a cold, wet June (2009) followed by a mild, short summer and a New England hurricane or two.
I don’t recognize any science in there but I trust the 80+year olds to recognize weather patterns – just like I know that every 6 or 7 years, it will snow on or around my birthday. I’ve trick or treated in a snow storm.
gopmom on October 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Southern Idaho had about an inch yesterday afternoon.
My coleus in Utah shriveled up last night.
Yup, winter’s coming early here, too.
dicentra63 on October 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Is this serious enough for you?
Maybe not but it’s a hell of a lot more indicative of climate than any of the crap put out by the Goracle and his pseudo-scientific sell-out hacks, and the governments and companies that hope to profit from their BS.
I’ll go out on a limb:
Anybody who believes in man-caused global “climate change” is either a child, a fool, or a liar.
peski on October 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Can’t argue with that logic.
YYZ on October 6, 2009 at 7:20 PM
No, you “come on, now.” The hockey stick is a perfect example of why global warming people scare the hell out of many of us. You don’t really know what’s happening if anything and yet you want to slam down hard on the way people live, consume, produce, etc., etc.
WitchDoctor on October 6, 2009 at 7:21 PM
no that’s a hurricane.
harry on October 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM
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