“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
– Ronald Reagan
Robert Kennedy Jr. is convinced that Virginia used to get a lot more snow before global warming.
Palin’s Big Oil infatuation
Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2008By ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr.
In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. 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, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
He was born in January 1954 after decades of very little snow. But shortly after he was born, snowfall spiked temporarily upwards. He assumed this was normal.
Shortly after he was born, temperatures in Virginia plummeted, and never recovered.
Ninety degree days are much less common in Virginia now than they were when he was born.
On this day in 1954, RFK Jr. was almost one month old, and the temperature in Fredricksburg was 78 degrees.
Today’s forecast is for record cold and record snow.
His selective memory from his childhood led him to exactly the wrong conclusion about the climate of Virginia.
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