The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) begins today in Copenhagen, Denmark and brings together politicians and scientists from across the globe to address manmade climate change. As if on cue, the Gore Effect has struck much of the United States with record setting cold and snow.
The Gore Effect was coined in recent years for the unseasonable weather that oftentimes accompanies appearances by former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore or when a global warming event is held. Cold and snow have followed Al Gore and these events across the globe with amazing frequency since 2004.
- See the list of events where the Gore Effect came into play below
In just the last week, the United States has been besieged by cold weather events from coast to coast with more on tap for this week. Is it the Gore Effect being felt as a result of the climate summit?
Last Friday, snow fell in Houston, the earliest it ever has and it marked the first time it has snowed in the Texas city in back to back years. Other cities across the Lone Star state and Louisiana reported similar records. Near the Great Lakes, Grand Rapids, Michigan had more snow on Friday than it had ever recorded on that date.
The weekend brought snow to Denver, Colorado and temperatures 30 degrees below normal. Baltimore, Maryland had snow on December 5th – the same date it has its first snowfall of the season for six out of the eight last years.
In all, over the three day span from Friday through Sunday, 370 new record low temperatures were set or tied across the United States according to the National Climatic Data Center. Similarly 333 new record low maximums were set or tied over the same period.
Plenty of folks also saw record rain and snow. Over 130 new snowfall records were reported during the period and more than 100 record rain reports were made.
Today, in Sacramento, the California city is expecting record cold temperatures and a chance at its first snow since 2002. In the Midwest, blizzard conditions are expected across Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois tomorrow.
Certainly it is most likely just coincidence but these types of events do seem to occur with a startling frequency at the most inopportune time for advocates of the manmade climate change theory.
Below is a partial list of various events over the last five years in which the Gore Effect was in full force:
- January 15, 2004 – A global warming rally held in New York is subdued by one of the coldest days in New York City history. Gore tells the audience it was caused by global warming.
- November, 2006 – Al Gore visits Australia two weeks before the start of summer. Ski resort operators are caught off guard by the snowfall.
- February, 2007 – A hearing in the House of Representatives on global warming is cancelled after a snow and ice storm strike DC.
- April, 2007 – Two feet of snow arrive on Itaca, NY in time for an Earth Day rally.
- April, 2007 – A rally in Reno, Nevada held by the Northern Nevada Coalition for Climate Change is cut short by heavy rain and sleet.
- March, 2007 – A media briefing on the Senate’s climate bill is cancelled due to a snowstorm.
- December 5, 2007 – Washington DC receives its first snow of the season as the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee debates global warming legislation.
- January, 2008 – A global warming rally in Baltimore, Maryland is held amidst falling snow.
- October 22, 2008 – Al Gore appears at Harvard amidst temperatures that approached 125 year old low temperature records.
- October 28, 2008 – The House of Commons debates a climate change bill as London gets its first October snow since 1922.
- October 28, 2008 – John McCain and Barack Obama campaign in Pennsylvania. A wet, wintry mix causes McCain to cancel a rally while Obama goes forward. He teases people holding ‘stop global warming’ signs saying, "This is probably not the weather to hold up those signs. I'm not into global warming either but it's a little chilly today."
- November, 2008 – The “People’s Power for the Climate” protest in Newcastle, Australia is canceled after one day due to rain and cold. Participants had been told to bring sunscreen and hats.
- December, 2008 – The former vice president speaks to an audience in Milan, Italy about global warming. Outside it is snowing, a rare event in the area. Snow and freezing rain also strike Rome, Naples, Palermo and Sicily.
- January 17, 2009 – President-elect Obama on his train tour to the capital stops in Philadelphia. He tells those gathered, “A planet that is warming from our unsustainable dependence on oil." Temperatures were 18 degrees with a wind chill below 10 degrees.
- January 28, 2009 – Al Gore is set to testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about global warming. A winter storm arrives at the nation’s capital.
- February 5, 2009 – Temperatures down to -6 degrees freeze a major global warming conference in Buffalo.
- March 2, 2009 – A major global warming rally billed as “the nation’s largest act of civil disobedience” sees low turnout after a blizzard blanketed the nation’s capital with snow. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi cancels an appearance at the event after her flight was delayed due to the storm.
- July, 2009 – Leading up to a visit from Al Gore to launch Safe Climate Australia, Melbourne suffers through temperatures approaching zero degrees.
- October 9, 2009 – Al Gore is in Madison, Wisconsin for a convention of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Record cold temperatures arrive with him.
- December 7, 2009 - Leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, much of the United States is plunged into a deep freeze with record setting cold and snow falling in unusual locations.
- December 15, 2009 - Copenhagen, Denmark has unusually bitter cold temperatures and snow while the United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held.
- February 8, 2010 - The announcement of the NOAA Climate Service is forced to be held by telephone instead of at a press conference due to a record-setting snowstorm that buries Washtington D.C.
- February 9, 2010 - The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works postpones a hearing titled "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States" due to a major snowstorm that is being called "Snowmageddon" and "Snowpocalypse."
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Comments
Two minus signs equal a plus.But when a bunch of liars meet at Copenhagen,do we hear the thruth?
bad spelling truth
But you see, there is a difference between weather and climate. Sure, the weather gets cold from time to time. It snows. You have a week of freezing temperatures. So what? The earth's climate balance is a separate issue. You see? Two separate concepts. So, once you understand that, your argument kind of falls apart.
I hope the "leaders" don't sell us "useless eaters" (Tony Blair) down the freezing rivers. What's this about skewed data?
There's a difference between weather and climate until it's a record hot temperature, then all of a sudden that's climate change.
Mork, the thing is that if you get enough weather, that makes the climate. A climate model, however, makes nothing. We have been stuck in this consistent pattern for a number of years now; you want to tell us how many years it takes to make a trend? (Not to mention that your surface station data is useless because of where they put them.
Just got to thinking, I may have misunderstood your point, Mork. Warmists have a tendency to use that argument against us "deniers"....
Lou, are you some kind of idiot? The earth's climate is constantly changing. It has been warmer in the past and also much colder. To think that human activity impacts the climate in any way is naive, ignorant, immature and foolish. It is your argument that has fallen apart and it certainly is amusing to watch morons like Al Gore, the ManBearPig, fall all over themsleves to try and snatch some kind of victory from the jaws of DEFEAT! I do agree with Gore on one point, the debate is over and the warmists LOST.
Great comments, everyone. I would just remind those leaving comments to keep them respectful and refrain from name calling. We can have the debate as it is educational (and fun) but let's be civil. Thanks!
God works in mysterious ways.....Al
I'm in Stockholm, Sweden and we haven't had a white X-mas for years and years, now we have 10" of snow and cold and the weather forecast says that it will stay. It seems like the Goreacle brings Global Cooling. Someone up there maybe want's to prove a point that climate change has been around as long as planet Earth ;-)
Merry white X-mas to all of you *<|:-)>
Wow, I just threw out the raw data from the list above, 'homogenized' my interpolated results, and lo and behold... the proverbial "hockey stick"! Now if someone here would be kind enough to 'peer-review' my findings, the IPCC will be happy to publish them.
Skeptics in Copenhagen should do a major photo op re-building the 'melting' polar bear ice sculpture.
Democrats believe in science by celebrity endorsement. Unfortunately Gore isn't a celebrity to most of the world. When will the liberals realize we're no more likely to believe Gore than they would believe Quayle or Cheney?
The man-made climate change theory is utterly bogus, although temporary localized weather modification IS generated by human technology such as ELF pulses from HAARP and similar transmitter arrays, which some group may be covertly employing to harangue Gore and the climate change cult leaders. For a nice list of evidence that the man-made climate change idea is a con used by greedy profiteers visit trufax.org
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Climat chang is cost by human activits on eath,ask long as human activits is go on eath the climat changs.The ways which it can be manage is by planting of trees n environmantal green.
The recent acceleration of human creativity, productivity, and population is the result (not the cause) of global warming trends.
earlier fall and earlier spring is exactly what scientists have predicted of climate change, so early snowfall is not an argument that it´s not happening. local weather-fluctuations has nothing to do with a global scale warming. It´s not naive to think that putting out billions of tons of gases into the atmosphere wont change anything, it´s naive to think it wont. read a book before you think you know everything.
not earlier fall but more persipitation, extreme weather such as rainstorms and snowstorms, so if the temp. falls it would be more likely to snow... and you measure the average temp. over many years, not if it gets cold sometimes and warm sometimes at certain places.
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