Global Warming Protest Snowed Under by Blizzard

[Marcia]

This is almost too funny for words! It was mentioned on a thread in Politics but I thought it deserved its own thread (and I don't much like the Politics Forum). Plus, I'm in the Wash DC area so it is very significant for me.

There is just all kinds of irony in this plan to have a global warming protest and have it on the day Wash DC received the most snow it has in years! :tongue3:

They came. They saw. They were conquered — by Mother Nature. Hundreds of global-warming protesters descended on Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 2 to shut down the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant, which provides electrical power to Congress and a number of government buildings.

Their plans were iced, however by temperatures that dipped into the teens, accompanied by a blizzard that dumped several inches on the nation’s capital. Schools and businesses were closed and many official government events were cancelled.

The protest, billed as “Mass Civil Disobedience,” called on protesters to break the law by blockading the gates to the power plant so that it could not operate. Organized and sponsored by Capitol Climate Action, the rally was supposed to have received a pep talk from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but her appearance was cancelled by weather that prevented her flight to Washington, D.C.

http://thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/849

It's just too funny!

 

[Marcia]

Don't you guys think this is funny?

 

[Magnetic Poles]

Yes, but remember local climate is not necessarily indicative of global climate. For example, last winter, Houston, Texas had NO days below freezing for the first time ever. And here in Denver, we have had the lowest snow total for February EVER! Just a trace measured at the airport.

 

[tinytim]

God has a sense of humor!!!

He showed those nuts who is in control of the planet.. and it sure isn't MAN!

 

[Marcia]

Yes, but remember local climate is not necessarily indicative of global climate. For example, last winter, Houston, Texas had NO days below freezing for the first time ever. And here in Denver, we have had the lowest snow total for February EVER! Just a trace measured at the airport.

I realize that but it is still funny that global warming protesters plan this huge event - the first environmental protest of the new administration - and get totally snowed out! The speaker couldn't even address them because she couldn't fly in due to weather.

As Tim says, it shows God is in control.

 

[Ed Edwards]

Thursday 5 March 2009 is expected to have a peak temperature in central Oklahoma 87-to-90-degrees-F. This number is as meaningless as the snow in the Washington D.C. area on 3 March 2009 in determining the average air temperature across & around the world for a whole year.

// Don't you guys think this is funny? //

No. actually it is rather sad that people don't notice when they are in over their heads.

 

[Andy T.]

Don't you guys think this is funny?

Marcia, I do! I think it's very funny, almost cartoonish. God does have a sense of humor at times. :laugh:

 

[Andy T.]

Double post.

 

[EdSutton]

No. actually it is rather sad that people don't notice when they are in over their heads.

Yeah!! Especially when it's in a 10' deep snowdrift!!

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[EdSutton]

God has a sense of humor!!!

He showed those nuts who is in control of the planet.. and it sure isn't MAN!

If my memory is not failing, this is at least the third "global warming" event that I recall that has had to be canceled in the last three years because of the weather, including one "scientific conference."

Ed