The weather gods sure have a sense of humour.
In a case of the Al Gore factor writ large, the UN’s great global-warming gabfest wound to a farcical end, only for northern hemisphere delegates to be confronted with record-busting cold weather.
The bad weather affected the continent from Britain to the Black Sea, hitting airports, roads and railways, shutting schools and affecting power supplies.
It was just as chilly on the other side of the Atlantic.
Washington – A major snow storm blanketed the eastern United States Saturday, prompting emergency calls in some states, causing chaos at airports, leading to thousands of power outages and stranding hundreds of motorists.
UPDATE (a little late, it was a busy weekend):
As expected, Mark Steyn gives alarmist hypocrites the toweling they deserve.
So just to recap: The Prince of Wales, a man who has never drawn his own curtains, ramps up a carbon footprint of 2,601 tons while telling us that western capitalist excess is destroying the planet. Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who heads the International Panel on Climate Change and has demanded that “hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying,” flew 443,226 miles on “IPCC business” in the year and a half before the Copenhagen summit. And Al Gore is a carbon billionaire: He makes more money buying offsets from himself than his dad did from investing in Occidental Petroleum.