Snow grounds 800 flights across Europe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101217/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_weather ^ | 12/17/10 | JUERGEN BAETZ

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BERLIN – Heavy overnight snowfall disrupted air travel across western Europe Friday, forcing more than 800 flight cancellations and leading to major delays in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Germany appeared the hardest hit by the snow, with more than 600 flights canceled, schools forced to close and highways clogged with traffic after scores of accidents that killed at least three people and injured dozens.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Here is a story that fits perfectly with the Leftist phrase I coined, "Warm globally, cool locally." that is a take off of the Leftist mantra, "Think globally, act locally."

How Germany’s weather team views the “hottest year ever”

Coldest December in 100 years
In Berlin, there was an absolute cold record in early December, “For 100 years it had not been as cold as in the first decade of December,” said Globig. This also applied to other regions. But why is it so cold just now? Might it have anything to do with climate change? “I’m very sceptical”, replied Globig. A few years ago when we had a period of mild winters many climate scientists warned that winter sport in Germany’s low mountain ranges would soon no longer be possible anymore because of global warming. “Now they are saying: the cold winters are a consequence of global warming – a questionable implication,” according to Globig.