Great swaths of Britain are buried under more than a foot of snow as the country shivers through its coldest winter since 1981. Airports have been shut down, trains have been canceled, and the army had to be called out to rescue more than 1,000 motorists stranded in Hampshire.
In Germany, most of which is also blanketed in white, temperatures have dipped to record lows of -7.6 degrees Fahrenheit. In Norway, reports the AP, the thermometer read -42 F degrees on January 5, the coldest reading since 1987.
The eastern two-thirds of the United States is coping with unusually severe cold. Atlantic, Iowa, posted a temperature of 29 below zero, breaking a record set in 1958. Florida’s $9.3 billion citrus crop hangs in the balance as the coldest weather in years is draping palm fronds with icicles and causing iguanas to drop frozen from the trees.
Could it be global cooling? A Tory MP was jeered for suggesting as much in parliament. If the members had been hooting the unscientific use of particular weather to draw vast conclusions about climate, the derision would have been justified. But the avatars of climate change have been over-interpreting changeable weather for years. So the members were probably just toeing the climate-change party line with their catcalls.
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5:19 pm EST, January 9th, 2010 — Chavez corralled by global warming?
The same Kool-Aid is served in a variety of places.
I read your headline, Jack and immediately thought of Dylan’s “Must be Santa Clause”. I wonder if Dylan could be persuaded to do a ‘Must be Global Warming’ to the same tune? It would be no 1 in a day!
Here is the link, Jack:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVjC15jhtw. Picture Lord Monckton as Santa and Algore as the guy in the suit who jumps through the window. My minds eye pictures something really, really, funny!!
Must be global, Must be global, Must be global warming!
Fun video, jema!
I find myself going over to watch that video quite often, Mac because it makes me chuckle every time I see it.
What Al Gore had to say when asked : “Hows that Global Warming working out for you”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_intellectual_dishonesty_of.html