Global Warming: South African Summer; Tennessee Winter -- Not About The Bakken Where It Is Still Warm and Balmy

This was priceless. I didn't even see it on the Drudge Report.

I doubt any of you are aware but the UN is holding yet another global warming conference, this time in South Africa -- it's summer there. It turns out, conference promoters are having trouble getting delegates to show up at the convention center: it's too cold. I can't make this stuff up.

The weather gods seem to be making a statement on the issue of climate change, with the east coast [of South Africa] gripped by rainy and unusually cold weather for much of this week.

This comes as Durban puts the finishing touches to preparations for the 17th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) starting next week.

More than 20 000 delegates – government, business and UN leaders, and environment activists, celebrities and media – are expected to descend on the city.

The sun is expected to make a brief appearance on Wednesday, followed by the onset of another cold front.

“The weather gods might be sending us a message here,” joked Salwa Dallalah, the UN’s head organiser for the conference.

“Delegates may find themselves having to carry umbrellas, but we can’t do anything about the weather. I am not a scientist, but Durban people have told me that it’s unusually cold. It will be a pity if the rainy weather continues, especially because many Europeans and Americans will come for COP17 expecting lovely summer weather,” she said.

This is in South Africa, their summer. Too cold for a global warming conference. I cannot make this stuff up. This story is not being reported in very may places. Google and see if you can find it. I first read about it in the hard copy of the Bismarck Tribune, the regional newspaper that is in favor of banning fracking as far as I can tell, but the story is not on-line in the BT.

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In a bit of other global warming news, west Tennessee, which gets winter about as often as drillers hit a dry well in the Bakken, is experiencing a major snow storm.

The snow has started to fall again in Jackson after a break last night, but should stop completely by noon today, according to Chris Duke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Memphis.

The total amount of snow accumulation in Madison County has been between two to four inches, with some isolated areas of higher amounts, Duke said.

The area may receive another inch before the snow moves out of the area around noon, which is when the winter storm warning ends, he said.

I do not recall Elvis Presley ever singing about snow in Memphis.

In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley

As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
because if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

People, don't you understand
this child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day.