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Posted on 01/04/2010 1:17:38 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Throw Algore outside naked, and any questions regarding the weather will clear up.
I’m concerned about all the money that has been invested in this crap already. We have the sale of carbon tax credits in the U.S. already so why wouldn’t they just use the EPA to jam this down our throats futher?
Sorry I left out the word YEAR after the 11,22,44, and 88.
Somebody said the Bass Pro shop is open. You wanna walk over with us?
For Buffalo that was just a little lake effect snow flurries. Hardly a blizzard but it did cause some problems for some people sliding off the road on I90. I was out that way skiing Sat & Sun.
For Buffalo that was just a little lake effect snow flurries. Hardly a blizzard but it did cause some problems for some people sliding off the road on I90. I was out that way skiing Sat & Sun.
no, this can’t be, the Earth must be getting hotter ....
who you gonna believe - Al Gore or your lying frostbitten extremities?
/sarc
Al, the snake oil salesman, is so busy talking about global warming and promoting himself he lost his hearing and therefore has no idea what is happening.
One of the disasters mentioned in the continuation of the article was flooding and landslides in Brazil killing dozens. Here is a link I posted last night. I think the official count is now over 80.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420417/posts
I think most folks here believe that there is some sort of climate change going on, tongue-in-cheek responses to these sorts of stories aside.
The differences in opinion are over the cause, I think, with a healthy dose of cynicism toward an industry that has erupted around the green movement.
It’s the cold coming off those melting ice caps, duh!
But any well educated modern forward thinking progressive knows this is all wrong, when the consensus proves it is due to man made climate change.
"God has a sense of humor."
It’s cooler here too today, down to about 70 f. (ducking)
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