Posted on 02/14/2012 11:57:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold?
How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity?
What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold-snap. Temperatures reached -28C in Moscow. One point in Russia hit -52.8C (-68F) on Monday.
NASA Earth Observatory. Dark blue areas are -15C below average. White areas are average. Deep Red are 15C above. (See the NASA link below for the proper scale):.
The Danube has frozen over from Austria to the Black Sea, and 224 ships (some delivering fuel) have been stuck in their ports. Schools in Bosnia have been closed for days. Trains in Montenegro are at a standstill, and one train with 50 passengers was stranded in a tunnel for three days before rescuers began evacuating people yesterday.
In Serbia 11,000 villagers are trapped by huge snowfalls as temperatures hit – 26C in one town (Al jazeera puts the figure at 70,000 people), and some Bosnian villages haven’t had electricity for days.
Hundreds of barns are collapsing under the snow, killing the animals below, and prompting Tom Nelson to write “Children won’t know what barns look like”.
For the first time in over 30 years, snow has fallen in the Sahara Desert.
Alan Caruba found a Turkish writer lamenting the waste and misdirection of millions of dollars spent on the Green global warming bureaucracy instead of preparations to save lives.
Writing in a Turkish newspaper, the Hurriyet Daily News, Sophie Quintin Adali, an analyst for a project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, said, “As if the debt crisis weren’t bad enough news, the climate freeze sweeping across Europe is wreaking havoc by severely disrupting travel, business and people’s lives. Local authorities, indeed whole countries, are caught poorly prepared.” Turkey is experiencing record snowfall and low temperatures.
“The lack of readiness should come as no surprise because for decades the sensationalist message of global warming has dominated the public area,” said Ms. Adali.
“Politicians and decades of political environmentalism have a lot to answer for,” said Ms. Adali. “The man-made climate theory…is still supported by a mighty European Union bureaucracy and a green network addicted to public funds.” Even now, the Green Climate Fund “through which millions of taxpayer’s money will still be disbursed” is threatening the lives and the economy of people worldwide.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t recall seeing many headlines over the last week about this phenomenal cold. Now if 600 had died from a heat wave we’d all know that an oil pipeline was to blame.
Time to treat climate research as a science instead of a religion?
The image above comes from the NASA Earth Observatory. Their explanation of the extreme cold is due to Jet Streams:
There is a fabulous photo montage at the National Post
h/t: Sonny. Thanks, I hear you.
Time to shut down some more coal fired power plants to help out.
So.....if people heat homes and business by burning fossil fuels.....and Global Warming causes less need for heating..... hmmmmmmm.......
I'm sure that point is lost on the GW cultists, though.
As is the deep freeze in Europe.
WOW....immense amounts of snow....and a woman with a mustache, too!
It’s been a while since I cracked a Ringo book - Posleen war series was the last that I read. Premis sounds a tad too close to reality but he is always a good read.
Looks like I will have to go pick up another one. Thanks for the tip.
It was brutally hot in Texas last year and my a/c bills were HUGE so doesn’t that kinda off set your lower need for heat?
I'm getting really scared, I can't take another August in North Texas at this rate. :)
Like the GW cultists, I only pick the data that supports my pet theories. ;-)
Bttt.
5mm?............5 mm = 0.196850”...........time to start building an Ark..............
“Greenhouse gases like methane are keeping the US artificially warm because Zero’s fiscal policies has all of us eating beans.”
One just can’t argue with that logic!!!
I’ll be darned. Shades of the old days. Cold in Europe. Them tiny little cars they drive are toast.
Meanwhile, Daytona week looks to be possibly a bit wet but warm for the racing. ;-)
Wow. What a mustache.
is -60F in Moscow really any worse than the -30F that they usually get?
Global Warming is obsolete. It is now referred to as Global Climate Change.™
Global Climate Change is much more flexible than Global Cooling or Global Warming.
Is it hotter than usual today? It is because of Global Climate Change.
Is it colder than usual today? It is because of Global Climate Change.
Wetter? Dryer? Windier? Less windy? It doesn’t matter! No matter what the weather happens to be, it is because of Global Climate Change.
It’s all Bush’s fault. Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
(note the 3-month trend line)
That video does not show a lot of snow at all in terms of what some of use are used to. The snow around the house they show is either from an exclusive location or an area where there is a lot of drifting. But the rest of the video looks like a typical snow storm in the NE.
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