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Title: GLOBAL WARMING? IT’S THE COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES
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Published: Feb 19, 2008
Author: Tony Bonnici
Post Date: 2008-02-19 20:43:11 by farmfriend
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By Tony Bonnici NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world’s ice-caps are melting, it emerged last night. Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature. It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming. But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the “lost” ice has come back. Ice levels which had shrunk from 13million sq km in January 2007 to just four million in October, are almost back to their original levels. Figures show that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than is usual for the time of year. The data flies in the face of many current thinkers and will be seized on by climate change sceptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming. A photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg has become one of the most enduring images in the campaign against climate change. It was used by former US Vice President Al Gore during his Inconvenient Truth lectures about mankind’s impact on the world. But scientists say the northern hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades. They add that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The one exception is Western Europe, which has – until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10C in some places – been basking in unseasonably warm weather. The UK has reported one of its warmest winters on record. However, vast swathes of the world have suffered chaos because of some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the USA and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. Even the Middle East saw snow, with Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman and northern Saudi Arabia reporting the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. In Britain the barmy February weather came to an abrupt halt at the weekend as temperatures plunged to -10C in central England. Experts believe that this month could end up as one of the coldest Februaries in Britain in the past 10 years. The freezing night-time conditions look set to stay around -8C until at least the middle of the week. A Met Office spokesman explained: “There has been little or no cloud cover across England and Wales. So there is a capacity for a fair bit of heat to be able to escape at night. “It has been warmer in Scotland but that’s because it has been cloudy there. “Until the weekend the temperatures were in the 14s and 15s, and we will see a return to that later this week, though it will look grey and overcast when the clouds return.” But he added that there was little chance of snow. He said: “When the rain comes it will get warmer.”
GLOBAL WARMING? IT’S THE COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES
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#1. To: farmfriend, *Global Climate Change* (#0)
China weather chaos a sign of things to come: experts Global climate change, not global warming, is the more accurate term for the effects of increased carbon dioxide and other human-created additions to the atmosphere. Even more significantly, the effects will not be a slow steady increase in temperature over time. They will be exactly what we’re seeing, wild, unpredictable weather, increased storm intensity, and disruptions to ocean currents. One snowy winter does not mean global warming is all a bunch of hogwash.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Last week, Gordon Brown and his chief economist both said global warming was the worst "market failure" ever. That loaded soundbite suggests that the "climate-change" scare is less about saving the planet than, in Jacques Chirac's chilling phrase, "creating world government". This week and next, I'll reveal how politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St John the Divine than of science. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I agree, whatever the reality, it will be used against us.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Such has always been the climate. Nothing has changed.
I don't have a Ph.D in Climatology or anything but I wonder it that has anything to do with it being winter?
They are very of afraid of Ron Paul. Good.
Arctic sea ice, an indicator of climate change as it expands in winter and thaws in summer, shrank last September to a low of 4.1 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles), more than 1.2 million sq km less than the previous recorded low in 2005. "My feeling is that the situation will probably be the same as last year, or maybe a slight recovery," Jean-Claude Gascard, head of the European Arctic research project Damocles, told Reuters. www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL13916761 What matters is the summer ice melt. Looks like we might hold steady this year.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' LOL! Partially. What is significant is the current lack of sun spots. Most of the scientists I talk to think we are heading into another Dalton type minimum. This could be devastating to our agriculture. Global warming, natural or otherwise, would not have been the problem that global cooling will be. The Earth was warming during the medieval warm period, climate optimum. Probably all those SUV's and big factories that caused all that. ;^)
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Bump to Cyni for 1st hand report.
Is 14 degrees as you peddle your fibs.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm A complete list of things caused by global warming Acne, agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa hit hardest, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic lakes disappear, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, Baghdad snow, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird visitors drop, birds return early, birds driven north, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, boredom, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England, cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, challenges and opportunities, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cockroach migration, cod go south, coffee threatened, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , cold spells, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, cremation to end, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, death rate increase (US), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, famine, farmers go under, fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish catches rise, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood preparation for crisis, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frostbite, frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, health affected, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, illness and death, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insect explosion, insurance premium rises, invasion of cats, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, kitten boom, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, more bad air days, more research needed, mortality increased, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mortality lower, mudslides, National security implications, natural disasters quadruple, new islands, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying, oaks move north, oblivion, ocean acidification, ocean deserts expand, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychosocial disturbances, puffin decline, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, rape wave, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, riches, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers dry up, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered, shrimp sex problems, shrinking ponds, shrinking shrine, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snowfall reduction, soaring food prices, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, spectacular orchids, storms wetter, stormwater drains stressed, street crime to increase, suicide, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement, teenage drinking, terrorism, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees could return to Antarctic, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus displaced, walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede, war, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever. and all on 0.006 deg C per year!
Our high here in Richfield MN will be 0 today. We have had many brutally cold snaps thus far this winter. Reminds me of when was a kid.
What's Algore's solution for Global Winding? Man, it's blowin that ice cold air right through us out here in Ohio
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things ... T. S. Eliot
freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/re...gi?ArtNum=73860&Disp=6#C6 That's the global climate change explanation. The summer melt is the truest indicator. In recent years, it has been rapid. This year should hold steady, which is good.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Chemtrails.
You in Ohio?
"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson
Fibs? You're denying you're that olde?
"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson
I have today started a new list of suspected bi-polars. Half a dozen already of likely suspects.
I'm sure.
"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson
I used to be bi-polar, but Rabbi Dubya Bush cured me. Now I'm depressed ALL the time.
LOL!
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Best I can tell he wants the government to have more power to regulate even more of your life and make peons (like us) walk or ride bicycles everywhere we go. But of course since he is sounding the (false) alarm about the alleged "global warming" he has to fly in big jets and have a big fleet of Chevy Suburbans that get about ten or twelve miles to the gallong (if that). And don't forget about his big old mansion which takes more electricity to run than ten or twelve average houses. Al is a hypocrite.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Now I'm depressed ALL the time. hehehehehehe
yep
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things ... T. S. Eliot
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U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#2. To: robin (#1)
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
is less about saving the planet than, in Jacques Chirac's chilling phrase, "creating world government"
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#4. To: robin (#1)
They will be exactly what we’re seeing, wild, unpredictable weather, increased storm intensity, and disruptions to ocean currents.
Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. -- Alfred, Batman Begins
#5. To: farmfriend (#0)
But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the “lost” ice has come back.
#6. To: wbales (#5)
OSLO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Arctic summer sea ice is unlikely to shrink drastically in 2008 beyond a record low set last year even though the long-term trend is a thaw tied to global warming, a leading scientist said on Wednesday.
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#7. To: wbales (#5)
I don't have a Ph.D in Climatology or anything but I wonder it that has anything to do with it being winter?
Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. -- Alfred, Batman Begins
#8. To: farmfriend (#7)
The Earth was warming during the medieval warm period, climate optimum.
Lord Acton
#9. To: farmfriend, Cynicom (#7)
The Earth was warming during the medieval warm period, climate optimum.
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
#11. To: farmfriend (#0)
#12. To: farmfriend (#0)
#13. To: James Deffenbach (#8)
#14. To: iconoclast (#13)
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#15. To: farmfriend, robin, ALL (#0)
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover
#16. To: iconoclast (#13)
#17. To: Cynicom (#10)
as you peddle your fibs
#18. To: angle, robin (#17)
You're denying you're that olde?
#19. To: Cynicom (#18)
Half a dozen already of likely suspects.
#20. To: Cynicom (#18)
I have today started a new list of suspected bi-polars.
#21. To: Esso (#20)
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#22. To: iconoclast (#13)
What's Algore's solution for Global Winding?
Lord Acton
#23. To: Esso (#20)
I used to be bi-polar, but Rabbi Dubya Bush cured me.
#24. To: angle (#16)
You in Ohio?
#25. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
#26. To: longnose gar (#11)
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