Palin’s Big Oil infatuation
Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2008By ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr.
In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
Winter storm warning in DC
Warnings for District of Columbia, District of Columbia | Weather Underground
4 day weekend for fed employees in DC. Whoo-Hoo!!
Thank You Lord, keep them home for good.
I wonder if anyone in the Media is seeking Kennedy for comment??
…. Or is Robert blasting around on a CO2 spewing Private Jet right now prosthetizing about Climate Change, sipping champagne, banging prostitutes, eating meat, and using more than 3 squares of toilet paper to wipe his ass… I bet so…
‘prosthetizing’? I think you mean ‘proselytizing’?
First Excel now grammar. 🙂
It’s the hereditary prosthetic tongue of the Kennedy clan.
Chance of snow: 100%
http://mclean.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/sun-today-snow-tomorrow-tuesdays-forecast-for-fairfax-county-mclean
Break out the sled, Charlie Brown.
The year after he wrote that, The Washington, DC area had it’s snowiest winter ever…
Snowiest Season = 55.9 inches during 2009-2010 winter.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/winter/DC-Winters.htm
…which was then blamed on climate change.
Top snowfalls, 1960-2010, Northern Virginia (since RFK Jr was six years old)
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/winter/IAD_123Day_SnowExtremes_small.JPG
(wish we could html tag images… hint, hint)
http://www.windpowerninja.com/wind-power-government-industry-news/barack-obama-faces-senator-kennedy-on-cape-wind-75897/
Is that a positive slope I see in that scattergram?
Looks positive to me. The highest seasonal snowfall in Virginia was the year after he wrote the editorial (73.2″ in 2009-10) A normal season is 21.2″ (Dulles). In the greater DC area, there were no ? 8″ snowfalls between 1900-08, ’09-17, ’42-57, ’67-78, and ’88-95.
The climate do-gooders get away with making absolutely stupid, unsupported statements like that. They get reported without comment by a press that is either too dumb to challenge or is just a lapdog, or both. After all, RFK, Jr., is famous and wise for being born a Kennedy, right?
Schools closed and roads being salted 14 hours in advance of the first snowflake in Richmond. I may call in sick.
It looks like another false alarm here in E TN. We were supposed to have snow Saturday, it was a no show. now it is supposed to be snowing again,nothing yet.
Yes Virginia, there is natural variability.
I love the the reminiscent stories of all the cold and snow we used to have (as anecdotal evidence of CAGW)…and as soon as the cold and snow return, suddenly snow and cold becomes more “proof” of CAGW.
It’s very much like Alice in Wonderland
Kennedy is right. Virginians won’t know what snow looks like! Oh, look, there’s a flake! [Take that both ways.]