"Scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain."
That's what a drought is, duh.
"A new normal of intense rain, historic floods, and record heat waves"
Beware any time you see new normal in the paper.
"The issue had been virtually absent in the presidential campaign until Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast."
Yup, and then climate-change chit-chat began.
It must be the heat generating by my anger.
Related: CLIMATEGATE
Yeah, remember the outing of hide the decline and the apocalypse of evidence suppression by the climate scientists?
And yet the lies continue and continue and continue....
Then shut down the war machine.
‘‘The abnormal is the new normal,’’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations told environment ministers and climate officials from nearly 200 countries. ‘‘This year we have seen Manhattan and Beijing underwater, hundreds of thousands of people washed from their homes in Colombia, Peru, the Philippines, Australia.’’ ‘‘The danger signs are all around,’’ he said, noting that ice caps are melting, permafrost thawing, and sea levels rising."
There they go again.
How did Ban get to that conference, anyway? Not by jet, I hope. Isn't that how he does his globe-trotting? So he's a hypocrite.
Not even winter yet.
Why if it's warmi.... (blog editor exhales a sigh and wonder when he is going to start being taxed for it)
Proving that the MSM polls are full of fart mist, or Amurkn heads are full of s***.
3 to 8 inches of snow in Arizona?
Along with a foot of snow in the Rockies according to a photo in my printed Globe -- and it ain't even winter yet.
Because of.... you guessed it.
Because the water was too cold?
Climate change threatens ski industry As global temperatures continue to rise — nine of the 10 warmest years
on record have occurred since 2000 — the threat of a milder climate
looms over the ski industry.
PFFFFT!
Two years ago it was a record snowfall around here, so WTF is with the blatant agenda-pushing?
You were saying, Glob?
"Indeed, none of the mainstream media are covering this important story."
Proving once and for all that AmeriKa's corporate media is nothing but agenda-pushing garbage. It's all lies, distortions, obfuscations, and omissions, readers -- with any truths twisted inside-out and 180-degrees. If they will lie about the weather, what wouldn't they lie about?
A Christmas Day tornado outbreak left damage across the Deep South while holiday travelers in the nation’s much colder midsection battled sometimes treacherous driving conditions from freezing rain and blizzard conditions.
In New Mexico, drivers across the eastern plains had to fight through snow, ice, and low visibility. Meanwhile, blizzard conditions were reported in parts of Illinois, Indiana, and western Kentucky with predictions of 4 to 7 inches of snow. About a dozen counties in Missouri were under a blizzard warning from Tuesday night to noon Wednesday."
Snow in New Mexico?
No mention of climate change or global warming there. I guess even the agenda-shoveling fart-misters of the AmeriKan media have limits to how foolish and disingenuous they will look.
Not around here.
What's he doing way down here?
What a proper metaphor for a case that is collapsing in the record cold and snow.
Related:
"Scotland avalanche kills four climbers
LONDON — Four climbers died after they were caught in an avalanche Saturday in the Scottish Highlands, police said. They were part of a group of six climbers who were at Glencoe, one of Scotland’s best-known glens, when a snowy slope broke away. The BBC said that five of the climbers were swept down the mountain and engulfed by ice and snow. One man escaped to get aid. A woman was seriously hurt."
I'll get back to the continent below.
Ice in Arizo.... $igh.
You smell somethin'? We used to call it a January thaw.
Stay off 'em.
"2012 was warmest on record for the United States" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, January 09, 2013
Last year was the warmest on record in the United States and brought the second most extreme weather in more than a century — causing droughts, wildfires, and storm damage — according to a report Tuesday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The news continues a dramatic warming trend in the mainland United States: Seven of the nation’s 10 warmest years have taken place in the past 15 years, according to NOAA....
Well, NOAA was already caught lying about temperatures, so we dismiss anything they have to say. Sorry.
Raymond S. Bradley, director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said the previous record in 1998 was associated with El Nino, which tends to drive warm temperatures, but 2012 was not. “We have an underlying rising trend in temperature due to greenhouse gases,” Bradley said.
Scientists cannot tie temperatures in any one year — or one weather event — to climate change, so it is unclear how much global warming and how much natural variability contributed to the heat-packing 2012. However, since NOAA began keeping records in 1895, many of the hottest years in the United States have come recently, leading many scientists to conclude much of the warming is coming from the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, cars, and factories.
Global temperatures for 2012 are not yet available, but they are expected to be among the hottest since record-keeping began.
Environmentalists and some politicians seized on the latest data to push President Obama to more aggressively tackle climate change....
Can the agenda-pushing be more obvious?
That's who they are working for, folks. Wake up and smell the fart mist.
NOAA scientists say that in addition to global warming, the record-breaking year was associated with a pressure pattern in the North Atlantic Ocean that kept the jet stream — bands of strong winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere — to the north, preventing cold air from getting into the lower 48 states....
Oh, it was really the jet stream that was responsible for the hot summer. $igh.
And it came down and gave us cold, right?
Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at Climatic Data Center. “This is consistent with what we would expect in a warming world.’’
Shameless.
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Maybe this will convince you how full of s*** is my corporate mouthpiece:
"Middle East is battered by deadly winter storm" by Jamal Halaby and Barbara Surk | Associated Press, January 10, 2013
AMMAN, Jordan — The fiercest winter storm to hit the Middle East in years brought a rare foot of snow to Jordan on Wednesday, caused fatal accidents in Lebanon and the West Bank, and disrupted traffic on the Suez Canal in Egypt. At least eight people died across the region.
Excuse me? Snow at the f***ing equator?
Btw, I hold the fart-misters responsible for the deaths.
In Lebanon, the Red Cross said storm-related accidents killed six people over the past two days. Several drowned after slipping into rivers from flooded roads, one person froze to death, and another died after his car went off a slippery road, an official said.
In the West Bank town of Ramallah, a Palestinian official said two West Bank women drowned after their car was caught in a flash flood on Tuesday. An official said the women abandoned their vehicle after it got stuck on a flooded road, and they were apparently swept away by surging waters.
:-(
In the Gaza Strip, civil defense said storms cut electricity to thousands of Palestinian homes and rescuers were sent to evacuate dozens of people.
Also see: SOME PALESTINIAN SNOWMEN // PHOTO ESSAY
I'm glad they also had fun.
The storms hit vulnerable Syrian refugees living in tent camps very hard, particularly some 50,000 sheltering in the Zaatari camp in Jordan’s northern desert.
Good thing the U.S had to employ foreign mercenaries to further regime change, huh?
The storm dumped at least a foot of snow on much of Jordan and was accompanied by wind, lightning, and thunder.
In Lebanon, days of winds and rain along the coast and record snow in the mountains caused power outages across the country, blocked traffic, and shut down mountain passes.
In Egypt, rare downpours, strong winds, and low visibility disrupted Suez Canal operations and led to the closure of several ports.
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Has it stopped snowing yet?
"Snow blocks Alabama highway for hours" by Jay Reeves | Associated Press, January 19, 2013
CULLMAN, Ala. — A traffic jam that extended at least eight miles on Interstate 65 in Ala bama, forcing hundreds of motorists to camp in vehicles overnight after a rare Southern snowfall, finally cleared Friday as rising temperatures melted remnants of the freeze.
Some questioned whether road officials were caught flat-footed by a winter storm that had been predicted for days, but the state Highway Department denied being unprepared.
Hundreds of people spent a cold night trapped on I-65 north about 50 miles north of Birmingham after snow fell on the Southeast and caused at least one death in Mississippi....
Global warmers responsible.
One of those trapped was Bob Bentley, a lawyer who spent nearly 14 hours in his Prius before he could begin moving again at 4 a.m....
Bentley said people turned off their cars and sat because there was nowhere to go, and people were getting out of their vehicles, building snowmen, and walking to the edge of the woods to relieve themselves.
Cindy Parker, who works at a Shell gasoline station just off I-65 in Cullman, said a steady stream of frustrated motorists stopped to buy food, get directions, and vent.
“Weather like this is so unusual for us, they don’t realize that the hills and bridges between Birmingham and Huntsville will get so icy,” she said.
Skies were sunny and temperatures in the 40s by midday Friday. The highway traffic was flowing freely, but abandoned and wrecked cars littered the roadside, along with melting snowmen.
That's not very warm at all for Alabama.
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Meanwhile, across the pond:
"Snow, ice halt many Europe flights" Associated Press, January 22, 2013
LONDON — Hundreds of fights were canceled in Britain, France, and Germany Monday as snow and ice blanketed Western Europe....
Flights have been disrupted since Friday at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, which has seen long lines and stranded passengers camping out on its terminal floors.
Heathrow says it has spent millions improving its winter resilience since the airport was virtually shut down by snow for several days in December 2010. But....
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VIENNA — Two trains packed with morning commuters crashed head-on Monday on Vienna’s outskirts after a state railway employee apparently forgot to activate a signal. A rail switch usually works automatically and sets off the signal but was stuck due to snow and ice."
This after they had a brutally cold winter last year!
No wonder the Boston Globe can't see s***.
Time to go into a deep freeze, folks:
"As Boston shudders, Maine townspeople shrug off cold" by Billy Baker | Globe Staff, January 25, 2013
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — It’s cold outside. Maybe you’ve heard.
But there is cold, and there is cold cold. And while some in Boston rush to social media to post pictures of thermometers — It’s in the single digits! — here in timber country, the wind chills plunged past bone-chilling to dangerous and people think a little differently.
“We call that a heat wave,” Steve Campbell, a public works employee in East Millinocket, said of Boston’s temperatures.
Temperatures in this town dipped into the double digits below zero this week, with a wind chill that makes it feel closer to -30. Rivers are frozen solid, the town is encrusted with a seemingly permanent casing of snow, and a wind that feels like a blast of needles whips off nearby Mount Katahdin.
“You don’t survive up here if you’re a wimpy Bostoner,” said Barry Davis, the owner of Two Rivers Canoe & Tackle, a favorite supply spot for the ice fishermen who frequent Millinocket Lake. “The only ones that even talk about the temperature are the imports from Massachusetts.”
Just like in Boston, where so few people were out Thursday that Back Bay parking spaces were ample, most here seemed to find a way to stay indoors and out of the deep freeze.
But then there are people like the crossing guard at Stearns High School, out with nothing on her head but a baseball hat and earmuffs.
“It’s no big deal,” she shrugged.
Few will even concede discomfort. There are few things as tough as a Maine winter. The people of Maine would be one of them....
cold....
cold....
South Carolina was 45 degrees....
cold....
“Do you have to be crazy to live here? Probably,” said Jeff Campbell, who was standing next to a screen at the Millinocket Municipal Airport that was displaying the horrific readout from the weather station outside....
cold....
The idea that any human can get used to temperatures like this seems impossible, but the locals here repeatedly insisted that it was so.
Sure, they leave the vehicle running when they go into the diner to eat, and remote starters are considered more of a necessity than a luxury, but most recreation involves going directly into the coldest of the cold, whether it’s fishing on a frozen lake or ripping down one of the many snowmobile tracks around town.
But it’s all relative. What seems normal to some sends others running into a Dunkin’ Donuts with their body seemingly turned in on itself, like a frightened turtle.
Freezing in the allegedly warming water?
And there, finally, was a sane person.
“No, this is ridiculously cold,” said Jessica Harvey, a 22-year-old serving hot coffee and wisdom. “This is crazy.”
She chatted about it for a bit, said all of her customers were complaining about the temperature — Liars! — but when the talk turned to Boston and its single-digit temperatures, her face changed.
“Oh,” she said, looking amused to hear that people in Boston thought that was cold. “That’s OK. That’s normal. That’s just winter.”
It’s the negative stuff that’s awful, she said. That’s the cold cold.
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I'm frigid when it comes to my morning Boston Globe these days, folks.
