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The Earth is warming, which is changing weather patterns and often causing localized weather volatility as opposed to localized warming. Extreme storms, droughts, intense rains, unusual amounts of snow or lack of snow are all signs of global warming. People know the weather is getting less predictable. They call it “weird weather.” This quote from Jonathan Rose, who is on the Natural Resources Defense Council, is utter scientific and factual rubbish. Consider his comment that, “People know the weather is getting less predictable.” No they don’t, however, they are confused because they know weather forecasts beyond 72 hours never were...

TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) -- As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat? The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is...

Photo adapted from Ron Neibrugge’s beautifully crisp original at Wild Nature Images This is it: The dam wall is breached.There are defining moments in any era, and we are right now in the midst of the Great Collapse.Jan 30, 2010: the hottest hoax Open Magazine's "Hottest Hoax in the World" Cover Issue The weekend before last, a magazine cover called it Fraud.  This could have been New Scientist, Scientific American, Discover, or any of the other popular science magazines, but it wasn’t.  They were all scooped by an Indian publication, Open Magazine, that had only been running for a year....

Global warming's snowball fight By Dana Milbank Sunday, February 14, 2010 (For your convenience, op-ed is posted below to Body of Comment)

A decade of declining global temperatures combined with some of the worst winter weather ever seen in the nation’s capital has inspire President Obama to create a Climate Service Line Office to “combat the damage this weather has done to our campaign against global warming.” Obama Administration’s Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has been charged with responsibility for setting up the office. “It is difficult to keep people focused on the need to fight global warming when they’re digging out from three feet of snow,” Locke observed. “How can we hope to convince them they should pay higher taxes or higher...

There's bipartisan agreement on at least one thing in Washington this week: There's a whole lot of snow outside. After two paralyzing storms swept through the District in quick succession, the area was blanketed in almost two and a half feet of snow. Climate change skeptics quickly pointed to the winter storms as proof that Al Gore and climate researchers have their facts exactly backward. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), for example, twittered during the storm on Tuesday, "It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries 'uncle.'" And Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), on his Facebook page, posted photos...

TAKOMA PARK, Md. – As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat? The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is not...

Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle, where hurricanes are more common than snowflakes. More than two-thirds of the nation's land mass had snow on the ground when the day dawned yesterday, and then it snowed ever so slightly in Florida to make it 49 states out of 50.

On Today's Show... February 12, 2010   Flashback: Liberals Said NO Snow Proved Global Warming Rush has the sound bites from elected Democrats. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   "When there is less snow, the alarmists say that's because of global warming.  When there is more snow, they say it's because of global warming.  Now, you cannot have it both ways, otherwise you're contradicting yourself and proving that you are on a political mission." -Rush Obama's Secret Plan: Retire Your Host By Making Everyone Agree with Rush!   Dr. Sowell on the Fallacy of "Fairness" (Plus, First-Born Kids are Smarter) The...

Even though his cable TV news network may not have that many viewers in relative terms to his competitors, MSNBC's David Shuster apparently has some clout when it comes to getting things done in Washington, D.C. - at least on a municipal level. Shuster, making effort to give his viewers some "perspective" of his personal experience with the reason record-breaking snowfall in Washington, D.C., showed pictures of scenes near his Washington, D.C. home - complete with unplowed snow and a downed tree on MSNBC Feb. 12. "And to give you some perspective on what it's been like for all of...

WASHINGTON—The most powerful people in Washington, D.C., this week were demanding another juice box and a Sesame Street video. The one-two snow punch that crippled the nation's capital did more than bring the federal government to a halt: It brought hundreds of hard-charging, workaholic parents to their knees, imprisoning them inside their homes with eager children and a dwindling list of activities to keep them entertained. By day five, Tammy Wincup of Georgetown had given up on getting her three kids, ages 5, 4 and 2, dressed. Work conference calls were being conducted from the relative quiet of the toilet...

Durbin: “I am convinced that infants born in Washington, D.C., are taken from the arms of their loving mothers right when they are born into a room where someone shows a film of a snowstorm with shrieking and screaming so that those children come to believe snow is a mortal enemy, like a nuclear attack, because I have seen, for over 40 years here, people in this town go into a full-scale panic at the thought of a snowfall."

Fishermen who ply the waters of the Pacific off the coast of Peru and Ecuador have known for centuries about the El Niño. Every three to seven years during the months of December and January The vast tropical Pacific Ocean receives more sunlight than any other region on Earth. Much of this sunlight is stored in the ocean in the form of heat 1982-83 El Niño, this drop in sea level exposed and destroyed upper layers of coral reefs surrounding many western Pacific islands

A crowded Red Line Metro train heading from Farragut North toward Dupont Circle derailed Friday morning between the two stations, trapping 345 people underground for an hour and a half before they could be pulled to safety. The incident paralyzed the subway system and downtown street traffic on federal workers' first morning back after a snowbound week.

This month's blizzards are battering jobs. ... both people who have jobs and those who were set to start new positions couldn't get to work because of the weather. As a result, they'll file for unemployment benefits. ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma -- A University of Oklahoma student is taking an extra interest in this week's snow storms in the south and northeast and is working to document the events in a very unique way.Patrick Marsh said it's likely by the end of the week snow will be on the ground in all 50 states.From Ardmore all the way to Dallas and even in Louisiana, the south is snowed in. For many, it's a winter wonderland in places that rarely see such weather. But none of it comes close to the mess up north where two blizzards have blown through...

I'm the kind of person who always has candles, extra matches and batteries on hand, as well as canned goods in the pantry, in case of an emergency. But I was far from prepared for the Mid-Atlantic Blizzard of 2010. We lost power for almost five days -- which is bad enough if you live in a city, but if you're out in the middle of nowhere, as we are, it can be life-threatening. Rural folks are usually better prepared than city people, but for those of us who are transplants, it's a challenge. With 35 inches or more of...

Record snowfall illustrates the obvious: The global warming fraud is without equal in modern science. The fundamental problems exposed about climate-change theory undermine the very basis of scientific inquiry. Huge numbers of researchers refuse to provide their data to other scientists. Some referenced data is found not to have existed. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report that global warming activists continually cite invented a large number of purported facts. Consider a few of the problems with the U.N. report that came to light over the past few weeks. • The Himalayan glaciers were supposed to disappear as...

Here's a video of Contessa saying heavy snow does not refute global warming.

Here is video of Keith Olbermann saying that "Deniers" are showing "ignorance" by citing the recent winter storms as evidence disproving global warming. (Video) Olbermann said, "the record snowfall has exposed just how ignorant leading deniers are...they think it's disproved by snow." He continued to mock people for saying that snow is evidence that there is no global warming, despite this video showing Democrats Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, and Diane Feinstein in the past all making an argument for global warming by citing warmer winters and little snow as evidence.