Where is all that global warming I heard so much about?
"Winter weather disrupts travel in Plains and East" by Timberly Ross, Associated Press | December 27, 2009
OMAHA - Drifting snow and cold rain that have plagued much of the country for days stranded drivers and airline passengers yesterday trying to get home after Christmas.
Storms from Texas to the Upper Midwest that dumped 23.9 inches of snow in Grand Forks, N.D., and 18 inches near Norfolk, Neb., began subsiding, but blowing and drifting snow hampered visibility in many areas.
Yes, this winter has been BRUTAL SO FAR and it JUST STARTED!
Warmer temperatures and rains in the East began melting and washing away last week’s record-setting snowfalls, threatening the region with flooding....
Where?
Hundreds of customers remained without power for a third day in southeastern Nebraska and south-central South Dakota. Mark Becker of the Nebraska Public Power District said high winds could cause additional power failures during the weekend.
Yeah, amazing how the news MINIMIZES things like that.
As far as I know, they still haven't gotten power.
South Dakota officials reported several roof collapses from the weight of the snow, including a livestock barn near Baltic, where at least 25 cattle were trapped and some of them killed.
See? Lies kill.
Meanwhile, parts of the East began preparations for possible flooding as rain or freezing rain fell and temperatures rose, helping to melt snow in areas where as much as 2 feet fell last weekend.
Yeah, but there is still a covering - and then it turned to ICE!
The National Weather Service posted a freezing rain advisory through the afternoon yesterday for parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. As temperatures rose, forecasters expected the precipitation to change to rain throughout most of the region. In New Jersey, rain began falling Christmas night and was expected to continue through this morning.
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Where are those rising temperatures, anyway?
"Cold snap triggers rise in oil prices" by Associated Press | December 29, 2009
NEW YORK - Oil prices rose above $79 a barrel yesterday for the first time in four weeks as an extended cold snap triggered an end-of-year rally in energy futures....
Futures contracts for oil, natural gas, and heating oil have all become more expensive this month as snowstorms blanketed parts of the country and a sharp drop in supplies of crude and other fuels surprised traders....
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The NEXT ARTICLE is a TOTAL REWRITE!
It's the WEATHER for GOD'S SAKE, Globe!
"Bitter cold snaps region to attention; Shelters reach out as wind whips area" by Stewart Bishop and Shana Wickett, Globe Correspondents | December 30, 2009
What my printed paper says:
A winter blast buffeted the region yesterday, bringing bitter cold and cover-your-face winds that increased concern for the safety of the homeless living in and around Boston.
Otherwise they would forget all about them!
"Cold enough to go skating in Fenway Park," said Jim Greene, director of Boston's Emergency Shelter Commission. He was referring to the ice rink installed in Fenway Park for an NHL game Jan. 1 between the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers.
Always with the self-serving sports angle, hmm?
The National Weather Service said yesterday that the gusting winds that prompted a high wind advisory should be diminishing overnight....
At the same time, temperatures were expected to plunge into the single digits, and overnight wind chills could fall as low as 10 degrees below zero, said meteorologist Jeremiah Pyle.
Pyle said warmer temperatures, in the mid-20s will return today.
"It's still going to be cold, but the winds are going to be much calmer than today, so it will not feel quite so cold," he said....
You can go make the comparison here, readers.
Oh, ANOTHER BATCH of COLD and SNOW COMING for NEW YEAR'S, huh?
Maybe I will STAY IN in the MORNING and NOT GET a GLOBE!
Yeah, I've noticed a lack of global warming articles since the globalists froze their butts off in Copenhagen.
And you fart-misters want to worry about a REAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM?"EPA boosts vigilance on drugs in drinking water; Series of actions represents shift in approach" by Jeff Donn, Associated Press | December 25, 2009
Federal regulators have sharply shifted course on longstanding policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation’s drinking water, taking a critical first step toward limiting some of the contaminants while acknowledging they could threaten human health.
A burst of significant announcements in recent weeks reflects an expanded government effort under President Obama to deal with pharmaceuticals as environmental pollutants....
The Associated Press reported last year that the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans contains minute concentrations of a multitude of drugs.
Now I begin to see why the American public seems doped up; because THEY REALLY ARE!!
Water utilities, replying to a questionnaire, acknowledged the presence of antibiotics, sedatives, sex hormones, and dozens of other drugs in their supplies. The news reports stirred congressional hearings and legislation, more water testing, and more disclosures of test results....
In the first move toward possible drinking-water standards, the EPA has put 13 pharmaceuticals on what it calls the Contaminant Candidate List.
These guys and their lists!
They are mostly sex hormones, but include the antibiotic erythromycin.
Trying to make us all INFERTILE, huh?
They join a list of 104 chemical and 12 microbial contaminants that the EPA is considering as candidates for regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act. No pharmaceutical had been placed on the list in its 12-year history, but medicines now make up 13 percent of it. They take a place beside such better-known contaminants as the metal cobalt, formaldehyde, the rocket fuel ingredient perchlorate, and the disease germ E. coli.
Related: De Plane! De Plane!
Conrad Volz, a University of Pittsburgh scientist whose research raises questions about the risk of eating fish from waters contaminated with sex hormones....
I don't eat fish.
Several scientists within and outside government tied the stronger focus on human health to the Obama administration and the president’s appointment of Lisa Jackson, a highly regarded former head of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, to run the EPA.
“I think we are trying to be as aggressive as we can. We understand it’s a major national issue. We understand it’s a major public concern,’’ said Peter Silva, the new water administrator at the EPA.
However, making the candidate list provides no assurance that a chemical will reach regulation. EPA officials intend to make preliminary decisions on some of the latest contaminants by mid-2012.
But they needed to declare carbon dioxide a harmful gas this year as the nation is in a deep freeze!!!!!
Yeah, EPA really has YOUR HEALTH in mind!
Water utilities and drug makers are wary of the federal moves. Difficult scientific questions remain over the possible threat posed to humans by minuscule concentrations in drinking water, where drugs are typically found in parts per billion or trillion, well below medical doses.
But when it comes to GLOBAL FART-MISTING, pffffffffttt!!!
Alan Goldhammer, a vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said such trace amounts “really do not pose a human health issue.’’
I've STOPPED BELIEVING SELF-SERVING LIARS and always assume the OPPOSITE is TRUE!
“We do get concerned if we think that somebody is going to require that the consumers spend money and not get any health benefit,’’ added Tom Curtis, a lobbyist for the Denver-based American Water Works Association.
Oh, all of a sudden they care about your wallet and health, America!!!
Pfffffft!
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How are we going to solve this problem, 'eh, America?
"Scientists study mussels in Calif. for pollution clue" by Associated Press | December 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - California scientists hope studying 180 black mussels pried from algae-covered rocks in San Francisco Bay will provide clues into how many drugs and chemicals are polluting waters across the nation.
Related: The Day Boston Went Dry
So how is your water tasting, Boston?
Mussels filter water and store contaminants in their tissue, providing a record of pollution in the environment. The creatures are being culled from 80 sites in California as part of a pilot study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to see how pervasive the substances have become....
Regulators are concerned about an array of chemicals and pharmaceuticals - synthetic estrogen used in birth control pills, anti-bacterial agents in hand sanitizers, and a flame retardant used on computers, furniture, and cars - that can accumulate in the tissue of animals and people.
And THAT CAN NOT be GOOD!!
Recent studies found levels of PBDEs, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers, a flame retardant used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer products, in waters off every US coast....
Translation: You are SLOWLY being POISONED to DEATH, America!
Traces of PBDEs have also been found in human breast milk, aquatic birds, and fish in North America, Europe, and Asia, according to the Environmental Protection Agency....
Yeah, don't suck on that tit, kid.
Get your poisons from a bottle.
Also see: Massachusetts Doesn't Care About Its Infants
Still being "studied," isn't it?
