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.
A few hundred deaths is not a big deal in a place with several hundred million people. It might just be that the reason we don't hear anything similar here is that we don't have nationwide reporting. A few homeless dead of cold in NYC, a few more in Detroit, I could see it adding up to a couple hundred nationwide.
That carbon tax seems to be working.
In my four years in Sicily this has been the coldest winter of them all. And we aren’t getting anything near as bad as Northern Europe.
A lot of houses in Europe do not have central air and heat, because the climate is usually more moderate and doesn’t vary so drastically in termperature. That makes it more difficult to control internal temps during periods when the external temps do spike drastically in either direction.
Dr. Gore, Dr. Gore, where are you. We need you. :)
Enjoy the temperate weather in the US--next year we could just as easily be getting what Europe is getting now.
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Thanks for the ping. And Germany has closed down coal plants due to “CO2 global warming pollution” and nuke powerplants for fear of earth quakes and tsunami’s damaging the plants in Germany like happened in Japan. And is now having a shortage of electricity to heat people’s homes. AND PEOPLE ARE DYING — LITERALLY FREEZING TO DEATH.
Well, someone has to take a hit for the team.....
I was wondering who was getting the nasty stuff because when it's abnormally warm in one place, it's going to be abnormally cold somewhere else. It's just the way the jet stream works.
The long range forecast from Accuweather for NYS is above average, like in the lower 40's.
Two more weeks and February is over, then at the most, we have the potential for 2-3 weeks of crappy weather at the beginning of March and basically, we're done.
Looks like we dodged the bullet this winter.
Looks like your average winter on the Tug Hill in NY, right off the east end of Lake Ontario.
Adam’s Center is THE snowiest spot in the country. It regularly gets lake effect snow with rates of 5 inches per hour, for hours on end.
Global Warming = the Hindenburg of public policy.
I don’t like winter, but I haven’t known how to act this year, the mildest winter in memory. Of course, last week we experienced some of the worst driving I’ve ever had the displeasure of...
Thanks Ernest!
And ran into a sleet storm...
I grew up in the High North of Bradford Country Pa. Almost on the N.Y. state border. Ski-Doo Country! Had a log cabin on the mountain and let me tell you we saw some snow!!!! We use to go up for a week-end there and more than once get snowed in.
This winter here in Western Pa. has been the mildest I’ve seen in awhile.....it’s like winter past us by!
Was that a storm coming off Lake Superior ?
Anyone wondering how an ice age starts?
Far more than 600 have died. The winter death rate for Europe and similar climates is much higher than the summer death rate. When people die in a heat wave they are also in the 100's from heat stroke, etc. But the heat waves are always presented in the biased media as "excess" deaths over the summer baseline. That's so they can say there were 1000's of deaths. But the summer baseline is low, and the excess is always lower than the normal winter deaths (never mind an extreme winter).
It's a good point. There are 100 or more feet of snow in parts of Alaska that won't melt this summer. It may be that there will be some glacier growth in Europe, although I'm not as sure about that.
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