Posted on December 20, 2009 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News
Every notice that every time they hold a protest or an event about global warming, they get record cold, or snow?
From the Daily News:
In 2006, Gore spoke about global warming in Australia two weeks before the start of summer and it snowed.
Gore spoke at Harvard in October of 2008 and the temperature neared a record low set more than a century before.
And so it went, right up to January of this year, when an ice storm accompanied his testimony about global warming before a Senate committee.
The weather resulted in a snow day at the school where the Obama girls were newly enrolled, causing the President to suggest the nation's capital had punked.
"We're going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town," the President said.
The Gore effect seemed to strike wimpy Washington again in March, when a snowstorm caused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel an appearance at a global warming rally on the Capitol grounds.
And last week, the Gore effect seemed to follow Obama as well as Pelosi and a big congressional delegation to the global warming summit in Copenhagen.
They arrived to 4 inches of freshly fallen snow. The forecasters were promising the first white Christmas there in 14 years.
As our representatives worked out a toothless agreement they termed "an unprecedented breakthrough," meteorologists were forecasting a big snowstorm back home.
Pelosi and the congressional delegation cut the trip short to beat the snow. Obama stayed a little longer, but even an adopted son of flinty Chicago ended up departing early.
"Because of weather constraints in Washington, I am leaving before the final vote," the President said.
Obama landed at Andrews Air Force base at 1 a.m. Saturday and the encroaching weather led him to take a motorcade rather than the usual helicopter hop to the White House.
The storm that some saw as the latest manifestation of the Gore effect continued north, arriving here in the early afternoon.
Much more was on the way, but New York had redesigned two vital aspects of its infrastructure after the bigger-than-big Blizzard of 1888. The headlines back then read:
"Blizzard Was King! The Metropolis Helpless Under Snow! Fifty Trainloads of Passengers Stuck on the Main Lines! Electric Lights Out."
After that mother of all storms, the city's electric lines were taken off the poles and run underground. The elevated train lines were replaced by the subway.
With the exception of those stretches that remain elevated or otherwise vulnerable, the transit system now runs fine, however big the blizzard.
So here in New York Saturday, we could just let it Gore, let it Gore, let it Gore.
Too bad for us the Gore effect is just coincidence and all the reputable science says global warming truly is a real and present danger.
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