Thanks Judi Cole!

*This is from my cousin who lives in Florida - another skeptic, imagine


that!

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From: JAY BOGGS

Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Subject: no snow?

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*For once, an editorial gets it right...*

*Jay*

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*1. RFK Jr. Said Global Warming Means No Snow in D.C.*

Back in September 2008, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote an article

raising the alarm about global warming and the resultant lack of winter

weather in Washington, D.C.

On Monday, Feb. 8, as the nation’s capital dug out from under a ferocious

snowstorm, The Washington Examiner reran an article from last Dec. 21,

published as Washington was struggling to dig out from under an earlier

snowstorm.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell

larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the

planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in

Washington, D.C.,” wrote The Examiner’s Online Opinion Editor David

Freddoso.

He quoted from the article written by Kennedy, a lawyer specializing in

environmental law, which ran in the Los Angeles Times: “Recently arrived

residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters,

might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on

Ballantrae Hill in McLean [Va.], with a rope tow and local ski club.

“Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a

sled.”

He reminisced about ice skating on a Washington canal, “which these days

rarely freezes enough to safely skate."

“Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into

think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing

that global warming is a fantasy.”

Freddoso observed on Dec. 21: “Having shoveled my walk five times in the

midst of this past weekend’s extreme cold and blizzard, I think perhaps RFK

Jr. should leave weather analysis to the meteorologists instead of trying to

attribute every global phenomenon to anthropogenic climate change.”

Last weekend’s snowstorm paralyzed the Washington area, knocking out power

to thousands of homes, closing schools and businesses, and shutting down the

federal government.

Dulles International Airport near Washington received a record 32.4 inches

of snow, and a town in Maryland close to D.C. was blanketed by 40 inches.

Another snowstorm walloped Washington on Wednesday. As of 2 p.m. that day,

the snowfall total for the season had surpassed the 54.4-inch record set in

1899, and it rose to 55.6 inches by 4 p.m. in the city and to 72 inches at

Dulles.