Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet

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[Sub-Driver]

Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet Snowfall in Kufri, India

Arctic air and record snow falls gripped the northern hemisphere today, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.

There were few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralysed life in Beijing and threatened the Florida orange crop. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze, Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snowdrifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (-13F).

The heaviest snow yesterday hit northeastern Asia, which is suffering its worst winter weather for 60 years. More than 25 centimetres (10in) of snow covered Seoul, the South Korean capital — the heaviest fall since records began in 1937.

In China, Beijing and the nearby port city of Tianjin had the deepest snow since 1951, with falls of up to 8in and temperatures of minus 10C. In the far north of China, the temperature fell to minus 32C. More than two million Beijing and Tianjin pupils were sent home and 1,200 flights were delayed or cancelled at Beijing’s international airport.

The same far-eastern weather system took its toll of Sakhalin, the Russian island off Siberia, which was hit by blizzards and avalanches. Farther west, in northern and eastern India, more than 60 people, mainly homeless, died of exposure. Thousands of schools were closed. In Uttar Pradesh, the state neighbouring Nepal, the authorities spent £1.3 million on blankets and firewood for needy households.

Western Russia suffered a deep freeze as snow swept across the Baltic and north-central Europe, leaving the worst devastation in Poland, where 13 people died, bringing the toll from the cold this winter to 122.

[muawiyah]

I blame this in Copenhagen ~ if they hadn't laid down such a big carbon imprint, the outcome would have been far different.

And where's that Algore when he's needed?

[DungeonMaster]

“Earth is angry at you and wants a sacrifice!” High Priest Gore.

[Eye of Unk]

And meanwhile here in Alaska we are having higher than normal temperatures, its 24F above right now with forecast temps in the mid and upper 30’s for the rest of the week.

And having lived in Alaska since 1992 this is a warm winter, sorry about all the cold everyone down in the lower 48, maybe you need a nice warm vacation up here?

[bert]

This piece is evident of but one thing...... slow news day

When they throw you a lemon, make lemonade.... this is but a lemonade effort

[HiTech RedNeck]

Mother Earth bent on making up for all that global warming?

[Beagle8U]

I’m still waiting for someone with photoshop skills to put Owl Gore’s face on that picture of ‘Hatchet Jack’ frozen to the tree, from the ‘Jeremiah Johnson’ movie.

[bert]

Yeah, but is there any daylight?

[Eye of Unk]

A couple of hours worth, look at it this way, you won’t get a sunburn or skin cancer up here very easily.

[Red Badger]

I don’t watch the Weather Channel unless a hurricane is coming................Then I know that dufus will be on our beach..............

[Honorary Serb]

It's high time for certain scientists and politicians to fix the climate models and stop making "climate change" an excuse for global government and horrible totalitarianism!!!!

Some prayers and charitable relief for those suffering from the extreme cold and arctic weather would be good, too!!!!

[truthguy]

Drudge has about 10 stories listed about the world wide cold. I've been scanning the MSM (USA only) and only CBS has a story about the National Cold Wave.

If it were record breaking heat in midsummer, every one of these sources would be attributing the record heat to global warming. What a joke the MSM is.

[maggief]

“And where’s that Algore when he’s needed?”

Shorting his “green” stocks?

[maggief]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16781

Global Cooling in 2009

Global Research, January 4, 2010
Popular Technology - 2010-01-01

2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore's home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders met to try and stop global warming. It was so cold that even the BBC was forced to ask, what happened to global warming? As Climategate would reveal, IPCC scientists had been hard at work hiding evidence of global cooling. Yet the observational evidence cannot be ignored.

National Climatic Data Center

[bert]

My niece lives in Anchorage is coming to visit in about two weeks. I wanted a direct quote so I can her “ my friend in the Mat-Su said.......”

[1776 Reborn]

Ping

[RegulatorCountry]

Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet

Well, now, there's that half of the planet in the southern hemisphere.

[hkp123]

80 miles north of Pittsburgh it’s even colder with tons more snow. 8 foot drifts, 40+ inches on the ground, blowing and drifting. Child indoctrination centers closed today. Not fun. Most people today spent the entire day digging out. Screw Algore.

[1776 Reborn]

“And meanwhile here in Alaska we are having higher than normal temperatures, its 24F above right now with forecast temps in the mid and upper 30’s for the rest of the week.”

That is the same thing we are getting in the Carolinas.

[gleeaikin]

Please do not confuse weather with climate. Meteoroligists report weather, climatologists study climate.

I live in the mid Atlantic area and have since 1961. The winters here for the past 20-30 years have been much milder that they were when I first arrived. In the past decade, the summers have not been as hot. Other older folks I talk with in other parts of the country have reported the same.

There does seem to be a significant shift in world wide wind patterns, affecting rain and snow delivery. In the depths of the ice age, there were many areas that were extremely cold and dry, no snow. We have experienced for several years an extreme low in sun spot activity which contributes to cooler earth temperatures. On the other hand if we are still in the 11, 22, 44, and 88 approximate sun spot cycle of highs and lows, rather than in a major shift in the cycle, then in a few years we could have conditions like those of the 1930s Dust Bowl days. Very, very hot and dry. I just hope that a good portion of the snow fall in this country is in the Rocky Mountains. California is suffering from major drought because of scant snow melt.

Heavy snow in Buffalo is probably what they call Lake Effect Snow. Caused when air moves over the warmish Great Lakes, picks up a lot of moisture and then drops it when the air is chilled over land. Inference, the lakes are quite warm now.

As to a balmy Mediterranean England, if the arctic ice melts, this could eliminate the North Atlantic Oscillation in water flow that upholds the Gulf Stream. Then England could have Siberian weather. Climate, it’s complicated!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Cap N Trade is DEAD my good man ;-)