Edward A. Falk wrote:
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Larry Jaques wrote:
Damn that global warming(kumbaya).
Are you really going to pretend that you don't know that global warming
refers to the year-round temperature of the entire planet as a whole, and
isn't refuted by the fact that one geographic location happened to have a
cold winter?
Newsmax.com -
February 22, 2008: Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back
Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the
reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global
warming theory?
Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal
that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report
shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in
January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost
back to their original levels.
Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there
is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the
global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny
that the world is undergoing global warming.
The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a
melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to
fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore
during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impact
on the global climate.
Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of
August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has
soared in recent years.
As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems
to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.
As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has
endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the
area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one
exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when
temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in
unseasonably warm weather.
Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest
snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and
Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that
over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.
Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the
heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan,
snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. EvenBaghdad had a
snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.
AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China,
stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as
the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the
government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in
usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy
snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial
disaster relief office told AFP.
Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and
four remained missing as of Saturday.
An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern
region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle,
mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17,
the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including
7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can
province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry
Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.
In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England,
according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February
could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with
the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C
until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus
company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services
being disrupted by cold weather.
Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed
most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning
hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The
agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on
Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public
services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more
severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.
Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the
prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the
Cyclades islands were snowed in.
More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and
temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest
temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina,
where they plunged to -12 C
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...html?id=332289
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature...ticle10866.htm
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Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York