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Too funny!
An ice storm - part of an unusually cold winter in the East - cancels a House hearing on how the earth is being plunged into Global Warming.
Now THIS is ironic! And something you will NOT hear about from the Politically Correct Mainstream Media! Only DrudgeReport...
I'll post the body of the article, since it's likely to be dropped soon. Quote:
HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ET
The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”
The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.
DC WEATHER REPORT:
Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.
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02-14-2007, 09:15 AM
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Points: 12,295, Level: 72 | Level up: 73%, 155 Points needed | | "Unusually cold winter", Jefferson? It says the highs are in the mid 30's.
The closing just might be due to the fact that there is a large snow storm in the north east, hence "canceled after ice storm" in the title...but then again that would kind of take away the point of posting this as 'ironic', so I guess we'll not read that.
Everything's closed here because there is a large coat of ice over everything. You know why? Because it wasn't cold enough to snow...it rained/sleeted on top of old snow and then froze over night.
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Originally Posted by Jefferson  Too funny!
An ice storm - part of an unusually cold winter in the East - cancels a House hearing on how the earth is being plunged into Global Warming.
Now THIS is ironic! And something you will NOT hear about from the Politically Correct Mainstream Media! Only DrudgeReport...
I'll post the body of the article, since it's likely to be dropped soon. |
I have to admit that this is ironic, but it has NOT been an unusually cold winter here in the east. I'm in NY, and it has been unseasonably warm up until very recently. (It was 70 degrees on New Year's Eve.)
Several people that I have spoken to in France and Spain have said that their weather has also been a bit odd this year.
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We have not had ANY snow this year yet.
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Points: 21,485, Level: 92 | Level up: 93%, 865 Points needed | | ...and all the worshipers at the Cult of Global Warming completely miss the irony.
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Points: 32,158, Level: 100 | Level up: 2%, 0 Points needed | | nobody has missed the irony of the headline - it has been duly noted and smiled upon
however, it doesn't MEAN anything - it's just an amusingly worded headline
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Points: 14,720, Level: 78 | Level up: 79%, 130 Points needed | | It pretty much boils down to the winter season being noticably shorter. Upstate New York just got hammered with 11 feet of snow. Why? Because the great lakes did not freeze this year. Thats why it is called lake effect snow, as the moisture rises from open water. There is hardly ever lake effect snow in Febuary because the lakes are frozen by now, usually.
As for the the Northeast, I, here in RI have seen 1 inch of snow all year. We are getting the ice storm but got spared the worst of it. It is now raining and the roads aren't that bad.
A usual winter here is nothing like this one. It is definitely warmer than any I remember. Gobal warming is real, no matter what the enviromentalist haters say. I think half of them just like to argue.
This year is real proof of a quickly warming enviroment!
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Originally Posted by Jefferson Too funny!
An ice storm - part of an unusually cold winter in the East - cancels a House hearing on how the earth is being plunged into Global Warming.
Now THIS is ironic! And something you will NOT hear about from the Politically Correct Mainstream Media! Only DrudgeReport...
I'll post the body of the article, since it's likely to be dropped soon. | hahaha That's awesome!  | |
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Originally Posted by tyreay It pretty much boils down to the winter season being noticably shorter. Upstate New York just got hammered with 11 feet of snow. Why? Because the great lakes did not freeze this year. Thats why it is called lake effect snow, as the moisture rises from open water. There is hardly ever lake effect snow in Febuary because the lakes are frozen by now, usually.
As for the the Northeast, I, here in RI have seen 1 inch of snow all year. We are getting the ice storm but got spared the worst of it. It is now raining and the roads aren't that bad.
A usual winter here is nothing like this one. It is definitely warmer than any I remember. Gobal warming is real, no matter what the enviromentalist haters say. I think half of them just like to argue.
This year is real proof of a quickly warming enviroment! | Hahahahaha! No they're not! The Great Lakes RARELY freeze over.
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