While the @CityOfCheyenne is busy virtue signaling about saving the climate, plastic bags, and useless face coverings – we got tired of waiting for them to do their real job, and did it for them.
As of today, all COVID restrictions have been lifted in Wyoming. But here in Cheyenne we are locked down by several feet of very heavy snow, and below freezing temperatures.
As difficult as this is for humans, it is likely catastrophic for livestock and wildlife. The Pronghorn does are nearing their delivery date, and can’t get any food.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post said we were going to burn up due to global warming, the day before they reported on our historic snowstorm in Wyoming and Colorado.
The 1899 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica said that flu normally has a 2% mortality rate, but can be much higher. The official statistics for COVID-19 are that it has killed 0.03% of the world’s population.
“The mortality Is generally reckoned at about 2 per cent, but when an extensive epidemic prevails even this proportion is sufficient to swell the death-rate largely”
Yesterday, the Washington Post announced the demise of winter.
“If you’ve noticed summers getting hotter and longer, you’re not alone: Climate scientists have had their eyes on an uncomfortable warming trend for decades.”
As of 5 a.m. Monday, Cheyenne, Wyo., had received 30.8 inches of snow in the storm, with drifts as high as four feet. The snowfall topped the city’s previous record of 25.2 inches for any two-day period and 25.6 inches for any three-day period, both set in November 1979.
The National Climate Assessment shows that summers are much cooler now than they were 80 years ago, so it isn’t clear which climate scientists the Washington Post was referring to.
February afternoon temperatures peaked in 1954 and have been declining in the US for a century.
I took this picture on frozen Chesapeake Bay on March 7, 2015. Washington DC climate expert Andy Weiss (who used to regularly comment on this blog before he passed away two years ago) said this was probably the first time that happened in March since the 17th century.
The following year brought the largest snowfall on record to Baltimore.
New York had their coldest Valentines Day on record in 2016.
The coldest holiday season on record in the Northeastern US occurred in 2017-2018. I took this picture at the US Capitol building on January 8, 2018. It had gotten down to 1F (-17C) the night before.
I spent the spring of 2018 in Philadelphia, and it was the coldest and snowiest February/March on record. This was Philadelphia on March 21, 2018.
This was Will Happer and myself in front of Albert Einstein’s house in Princeton on March 22, 2018. He was pushed out of the Trump White House by staffers – for providing factual information about climate.
The Washington Post appears to have no interest in factual reporting. All they need is one corrupt or incompetent academic to push their agenda, and sometimes they don’t even require that.
Ten years ago today, the Washington Post said the weather had gone haywire, we were running out of time, New York was going to drown – and Polar Bears would be floating in the harbor.
That sounds bad. Particularly since the Washington Post says we may be having having our largest snowstorm on record this weekend.
Historic blizzard bearing down on Colorado and Wyoming
“Before the wintry onslaught is over, some locations in the Colorado foothills & eastern Rockies might end up with as much as four feet of snow. Some cities, particularly Cheyenne, Wyo., could challenge all-time snowfall records.”
