Global Warming strikes again

As you may know from reading some of my posts and tweets. I am not exactly a big fan of the "Theory Global Warming". I personally think that it is a plan for a world wide "Share The Wealth" scheme. If  CO2 were really destroying the environment, why allow its production at all? Why allow those evil corporations and evil capitalist countries to buy allowances or as the Catholic church used to do, buy absolution?
When the evidence didn't support the theory, it became "Climate Change". Therefore not matter what the weather it could be used to explain "Climate Change". Supposedly when there is an imbalance according to the "Climate Change" theory it is "balanced" by equally unusual weather somewhere else.. When a area experienced unusually dry weather, another experienced unusually wet weather. This also worked for cold/warm. The only issue I can see with this is that while the area I live in, in the mid-Atlantic US is experiencing an unusually cold winter. There is no place on earth that is experiencing unusually warm weather. There have been thousands of records set/broken this winter for cold and snow accumulation all over North America and many other regions of the world.  Here is the current situation here in Virginia.. 

Borrowed from Rich Galen's "Mullings"

• At 10:00 last night this was the official language from the National Weather Service winter storm warning:

  A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect from 10 AM Friday to 10 PM EST Saturday. Precipitation type: Heavy snow.
  Accumulations: Storm total accumulations of 18 to 24 inches.

• Now, I know those of my many readers who live in Antarctica or along Prudhoe Bay in the Arctic consider this a mere dusting. But, for those of us who live in normally habitable climes this is a lot of snow!
• In Your Nation's Capital and its environs we consider 2-4 inches of snow grounds for schools closing for at least two days, invoking "liberal leave" policies in Federal, state, and local government offices; and gathering up enough bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper to last the 82nd Airborne Division three weeks; a good three weeks. 
• The good news about this storm is it is coming over a weekend, just as the 16.4 inches of snow we got from the storm in mid-December. The bad news about this storm is that even at the low end of the NWS' estimate - 18 inches - it would qualify as the third or fourth heaviest snow in DC history.
• The top snowstorms have been:

  1 - 28" Jan 1922 2 - 20" Feb 1899
  3 - 18.7" Feb 1979
  4 - 17.3" Jan 1996
  5 - 16.6" Feb 1983
  6 - 16.4" Dec 2009 & 16.4" Feb 2003

• If this storm comes anywhere near what is being forecast, plus the four inches we got earlier this week the snowfall for the winter of '09-'10 will total over 38 inches. That is somewhat higher than the average of 15.2 inches for Washington.