Not really because there was only a hard, ground-freezing frost overnight but when it comes to the bulls***, the Globe has plenty to plow:
"Smartphones and the Web have disrupted all sorts of traditional businesses — car services (Uber), vacation stays (Airbnb), laundry services (Washio), dating (Tinder), and household chores (TaskRabbit), to name a few.
You can find the links of those I've written about.
Add snowplowing, lawn mowing, and leaf blowing to the list....
There must be something wrong with me because I do my own.
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And what do you think is wrong with this?
"Torrents also flooded freeways in Sacramento during the Wednesday evening rush hour and probably opened a pair of large sinkholes in San Francisco. No injuries were reported. The data cutoff for the update was Tuesday, meaning most of the rain and snow from the latest storm was not included. However, experts said they don’t expect the needle to move much when the latest precipitation is tallied."
My printed headline read "Rains barely affect drought" a two days after this:
California rain brings mudslide fears, evacuations
Pfffffffft!
"UN weather agency: 2014 on track for hottest year" by Karl Ritter, Associated Press December 04, 2014
LIMA — Climate skeptics point to a perceived hiatus in the temperature rise since 1998, an exceptionally hot year, to support their claims that man-made warming is not a big problem.
Related: Fart-Misting Fudge-Packers
And warming could even be good. History has shown that civilizations have flourished when the world warms.
Most climate scientists say the long-term warming trend is combined with natural variations that tend to be cyclical, with a period of lower-than-average warming followed by a period of rapid warming.
And we have nothing to do with it -- if your theories and computer manipulations are valid.
Parts of the planet were cooler than average, including large areas of the United States, Canada, and central Russia.
But most of the world experienced temperatures above average, with heat waves in South Africa, Australia, and Argentina in January and in large parts of South America in October, according to the UN agency’s assessment, which was based on two global data sets from the United States and one from Europe.
Yeah, yup, uh-huh, whatever.
Ocean temperatures were particularly high in the northern hemisphere from June to October.
Tell it to the turtles!
‘‘Around 93 percent of the excess energy trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases from fossil fuels and other human activities ends up in the oceans. Therefore, the heat content of the oceans is key to understanding the climate system,’’ the agency said.
That is where all the heat is hiding!
While scientists are now 95 percent certain that the temperature rise since the middle of the 20th century is mostly man-made, they can’t say with the same confidence how the warming affects different parts of the climate system, including the frequency of tropical storms or hurricanes.
Now fork over those carbon taxes so banks can start trading credits and contracts.
By Nov. 13 there had been 72 tropical storms, well below the average of 89.
Oh, even the monster storms caused by it were quieter than usual.
Arctic sea ice shrank to the sixth-lowest level on record in September, while Antarctic sea ice grew to a record extent for the third straight year.
You can do your own research on ice levels, as I am told ‘‘14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century,’’ all because of " human activities."
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That's so foul.
You know what?
It is the “end of an era” in the age of "a bittersweet reality: federal budget cuts and the government’s shifting priorities." They are "losing science" and the future is "uncertain" regarding any further posts regarding these fart-mi$ting clowns. It's no longer healthy for me.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: UN group says poor countries hit harder by costs of climate change
I will remember that amidst the inch of snow turning to slop when I go out to get a Globe this morning -- if I even bother buying one because I already did a preview and quite frankly, it's not worth it. Maybe I'll save the coffee run for later.
Blue Angels jet slides off runway
Because of ice, and how is that helping the global warming problem?
Sunday Globe Special UPDATE: The race is on in bid to save sea turtles
