Posted on 12/12/2008 1:19:56 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Snow has blanketed parts of the US states of Louisiana and Mississippi, causing disruption and leaving thousands without power.
Up to eight inches of snow were reported in some areas, blocking roads and forcing offices to close.
In Mississippi some schools were shut, and forecasters warned of treacherous driving conditions.
The north-east of the country was also hit by winter weather, with a state of emergency in place in two states.
The snow in the Louisiana city of New Orleans was its first in more than four years.
It caused considerable excitement, with office workers taking to the streets to watch and photograph the snow.
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At a park in New Orleans' Uptown neighbourhood, Sara Echaniz, 41, took photos and dodged snowballs thrown by her son, three-year-old Sam.
"He didn't believe it was snow until it started sticking to the ground," Ms Ecahniz said.
Eight inches of snow fell in Amite, about 75 miles (121 km) north-west of New Orleans, a meteorologist said. In Mississippi, up to five inches of snow fell in some southern parts of the state.
About 10,0000 power outages were reported by Cleco Corp, one of Louisiana's largest power providers, and some flights at Louis Armstrong International Airport outside New Orleans were delayed.
Snow is rare in southern Louisiana, although more northern parts of the state see it about once a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Historic Snow Fall in New Orleans: So Much for Global Warming
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“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
Snow falls on the St. Charles Avenue streecar on December 11, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The last time it snowed in New Orleans was 2004, and the city has only experienced measurable amounts of snow 17 times since 1850.
More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Minority Report
Dec. 11, 2008
The chorus of skeptical scientific voices grow louder in 2008 as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses, real world data and inconvenient developments challenged the UN and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.” On a range of issues, 2008 proved to be challenging for the promoters of man-made climate fears. Promoters of anthropogenic warming fears endured the following: Global temperatures failing to warm; Peer-reviwed studies predicting a continued lack of warming; a failed attempt to revive the discredited “Hockey Stick”; inconvenient developments and studies regarding CO2; the Sun; Clouds; Antarctica; the Arctic; Greenland; Mount Kilimanjaro; Hurricanes; Extreme Storms; Floods; Ocean Acidification; Polar Bears; lack of atmosphieric dust; the failure of oceans to warm and rise as predicted.In addition, the following developments further secured 2008 as the year the “consensus” collapsed. Russian scientists “rejected the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming”. An American Physical Society editor conceded that a “considerable presence” of scientific skeptics exist. An International team of scientists countered the UN IPCC, declaring: “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate”. India Issued a report challenging global warming fears. International Scientists demanded the UN IPCC “be called to account and cease its deceptive practices,” and a canvass of more than 51,000 Canadian scientists revealed 68% disagree that global warming science is “settled.”
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical. “The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.” - Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, a chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, author of 200 scientific publications and former Greenpeace member.
We are going to find out just how dumb the Obama voters are.
Oh yeah, they told them it might be 7-10 days before power is restored, they said main lines were down and had to be rebuilt. They have opened shelters.
fyi
any snow Downunder?
I was at a talk he gave years ago. Great sense of humor.
IVAR GIAEVER 
1973 Nobel Laureate in Physics
No snow DownUnder but so far it’s a very cool Summer with lots of rain and all the reservoirs are filling up nicely, thank you.
How green is my valley -
Actually, there was snow a couple of weeks ago at Thredbo, which would be fine as its a ski resport, except we’re now in summer here. There was also some snow in the Blue Mountains, which only occasionally has snow even in winter, let alone summer.
Get with the program, man. Now it's "Climate Change!" New and improved!
Great thing about "Climate Change!" is that it covers everything, except maybe your @$$.
"The internal combustion engine is the greatest enemy of mankind."
~Al Gore
Gore wrote in EARTH IN THE BALANCE pp 325-326:
"It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine (by government fiat) over, say, a 25 year period." "I wrote in this book Earth in the Balance that we should set as a strategic goal the phasing out of the internal-combustion engine over a 25-year period. I accept now that was a mistake. Twenty-five years is far too long for a goal like that. I think we can do it quicker." (Ramesh Ponnuru, "The Attack Man," National Review, February 21, 2000)
here is one of my favorite places...north side though:
Notice the how far north Louisiana and Mississippi appear to be in the inset.
No accident.
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