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Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet
Timesonline ^

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; climategate; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; philjones; whereisalgore; whereisphiljones
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To: Sub-Driver

Throw Algore outside naked, and any questions regarding the weather will clear up.


41 posted on 01/04/2010 1:59:59 PM PST by 353FMG (Save the Planet -- Eliminate Socialism)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

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?


42 posted on 01/04/2010 2:05:58 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: gleeaikin; All

Sorry I left out the word YEAR after the 11,22,44, and 88.


43 posted on 01/04/2010 2:08:00 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: maggief
What about the polar bears?!

Somebody said the Bass Pro shop is open. You wanna walk over with us?

44 posted on 01/04/2010 2:11:11 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


45 posted on 01/04/2010 2:15:58 PM PST by eggman (Grab a mop Mr. Gibbs! Your boss is making another mess.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


46 posted on 01/04/2010 2:16:11 PM PST by eggman (Grab a mop Mr. Gibbs! Your boss is making another mess.)
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To: Sub-Driver

no, this can’t be, the Earth must be getting hotter ....

who you gonna believe - Al Gore or your lying frostbitten extremities?

/sarc


47 posted on 01/04/2010 2:17:06 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Scythian

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.


48 posted on 01/04/2010 2:24:55 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: TexasFreeper2009; All

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


49 posted on 01/04/2010 2:29:36 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

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.


50 posted on 01/04/2010 2:35:40 PM PST by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: bayliving

51 posted on 01/04/2010 2:42:29 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Sub-Driver
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52 posted on 01/04/2010 2:44:26 PM PST by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s the cold coming off those melting ice caps, duh!


53 posted on 01/04/2010 2:45:59 PM PST by P.O.E. (Happy New Year)
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To: Sub-Driver; mmanager; enough_idiocy; FreedomPoster; carolinablonde; proud_yank; bamahead; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

54 posted on 01/04/2010 2:50:03 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Utterly ASTOUNDING! Freezing temperatures and snow hit the Northern regions across the globe in January! Some people over the age of 40 claim to have seen this before and have a name for this phenomenon; They say it's called Winter!

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.

55 posted on 01/04/2010 2:52:45 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: DungeonMaster
“Earth is angry at you and wants a sacrifice!” High Priest Gore.

"God has a sense of humor."

56 posted on 01/04/2010 2:56:05 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: Sub-Driver

57 posted on 01/04/2010 3:01:18 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s cooler here too today, down to about 70 f. (ducking)


58 posted on 01/04/2010 3:03:42 PM PST by Yaelle (thanking G-d for Rush Limbaugh's health)
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59 posted on 01/04/2010 4:05:51 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


60 posted on 01/04/2010 9:17:18 PM PST by VOA
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