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Poland’s top climate official said the country is preparing to set a date for a complete phase-out of coal-fired power generation, just months after the nation elected a new government that has pledged to support environmental policies of the European Union (EU). ... Poland, which currently receives about 70% of its electricity from burning coal, and has long been Europe’s largest producer of the fuel, has been slowly increasing its use of solar and wind power. ... Urszula Zielinska, the country’s Secretary of State for Climate, during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Jan. 15, said, “Only with an end...

Telegram channel General SVR claims that president Vladimir Putin died on Thursday - the channel has alleged that his body has since been stored in a deep freezer. The body of Vladimir Putin has allegedly been stored in a freezer following rumours of his death, according to a Telegram channel. Telegram doubled down on its claims that the Russian president has died on Thursday night at around 8:42pm in Moscow time. The channel alleged that his body had been placed in a freezer used for deep-frozen food. General SVR has reported that medics who were caring for Putin have been...

Temperatures across parts of Texas will nosedive this week, from balmy highs Wednesday in the 70s and 80s to below freezing Thursday night into Friday, with the chance of a wintry mix. “75 to 35 sounds like a car manufacturer’s braking power, but the numbers are not in miles per hour: It’s the range of temperatures in Houston over the next few days,” said meteorologist Chad Myers. And it’s not just the Lone Star State headed for a Texas-size cold plunge. An extended cold front will stretch from the southern tip of that state to the northern edge of Maine,...

Daesh Freeze 45 of Their Own To Death For Defection The so-called Islamic State killed 45 of their own in a warning to potential defectors. In an attempt to make the executions even more horrifying as a deterrent, they locked their defectors in a freezer for a day. According Iraqi media agency Al Sumaria News, the 45 defectors attempted to flee the battlefield during recent fights in Iraq. They accused deserters were executed by being locked in morgue freezers in Mosul for 24 hours, left for a slow, presumably agonizing death. Their bodies were reportedly then stretched out along the...

During the February 13 broadcast of CBS This Morning, host Charlie Rose and his guest turned to the topic of this year's harsh winter, calling the extreme cold an example of global warming. Guest Michio Kaku, a physics professor from New York City College--not a climatologist, but a physicist--claimed that the "wacky weather" could get "even wackier" and its all because of global warming. "What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is...

...but it's so blastedly COLD, WINDY and SNOWY. My furnace has not stopped running for two days straight. Wow, is that gonna cost us. BRRRRRRRRRRRRR. The dog walked about 50 feet from the house turned around to come back and collapsed 6 feet from the house. I went out to carry him in, his poor feet wouldn't move any more.

Chicago Public School officials say they’re canceling classes ahead of Monday’s bitter cold temperatures, after first saying they would be open. The reversal comes after withering criticism from the Chicago Teachers Union, though officials say they made the decision after (they) “evaluated the situation again.” …

CHICAGO (AFP) – There is a brutally frigid point on the thermometer -- minus 40 degrees -- where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet, and it was even colder than that in parts of the US Midwest as an Arctic blast struck over the weekend. Americans were bundling up Saturday as the coldest weather of the season was forecast to sock cities from Chicago to New York and Boston, with temperatures that have already prompted weather service warnings. The coldest weather in two years slammed Minnesota, where International Falls -- which proudly proclaims itself the "Icebox of the Nation" -- recorded a...

<p>A powerful storm that unleashed snow and strong winds across the upper Midwest has left behind dangerously cold temperatures.</p> <p>The weekend storm closed major highways in several states, canceled more than 1,600 flights in Chicago and collapsed the roof of the Minnesota Vikings' stadium. At least six weather-related deaths were reported.</p>

Rare self-rolling giant snow balls found in UK They may look like winter's answer to crop circles, but these mysterious snow rolls are in fact a rare natural phenomenon usually found only in the world's most remote and frozen regions. By Heidi Blake Published: 9:45PM GMT 08 Jan 2010 The rare snow rolls are formed by a combination of strong winds and fresh, moist snow Photo: Ron Trevett Also known as snowrollers, snow bales and snow doughnuts, they form mostly in unusual conditions created by a precise combination of snow, ice, wind, temperature and moisture on the prairies of North...

Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book BY Nathaniel Vinton DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says. AP Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83. 'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head. Take our PollCryonics: Critical or near-criminal? In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation...

Much of Oklahoma's Wheat Crop Damaged Apr 17, 2009 9:42 PM By Colleen Chen, NEWS 9 for NewsOn6.com OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- Oklahoma wheat producers are beginning to see the effects from a hard freeze earlier this month. Oklahoma Wheat Commission Executive Director Mike Schulte said some fields suffered damage of up to 90 percent. While consumers likely won't see any price jumps at the grocery store in the short term, Schulte said they will likely see price changes a few months from now. Learn more about the Oklahoma Farm Report, broadcast on the Radio Oklahoma Network. Find RON Radio...

WARSAW (AFP) - Europeans braced for a shivery New Year celebration as temperatures plunged to new lows, while a cold snap claimed the lives of new victims and snow, ice and floods snarled traffic. Poland reported 22 deaths from hypothermia in recent days, bringing the total to 85 since the onset of winter in October. "Nearly half the victims were homeless people, more and more of whom die of the cold every year in Poland," police spokeswoman Graznya Puchalska told AFP on Friday, adding that most were men between the ages of 35 and 50 and under the influence of...

Hi! Well, I have a rwd car with summer tires and the fwd car is out of town. The small amount of sleet on the road has trapped me in the house. The weather guy said we'd be cool until noon, but who believes him anyway. Well, I'm a little unprepared (I know, I know) so I need a ghetto way to deice a small patch on my back deck so I can let the dog out without breaking our necks. I'm sure table salt works well, but how much should I use? I don't want to waste it, not...

A fire on the summit of Mount Washington yesterday knocked out all electricity on the mountain, hindering emergency communications in the North Country and forcing the first evacuation of the Mount Washington Observatory since it opened in 1932. Jeff DeRosa, an intern at the observatory, said he discovered the fire at about 3 p.m. while checking the generator room. DeRosa said he was trying to figure out the source of the smoke when he walked outside and saw flames were shooting from the building, which houses two generators. DeRosa said he and another man tried putting out the fire using...

KENNEBUNKPORT — In his 15 years as harbormaster, Dave Billings can count on one hand the times Cape Porpoise has frozen over. He added Thursday to that short list. "Is this cold weather normal?" Billings asked from his usual perch on the cold wooden pier. "I don't think so. In a normal winter, we have some skim ice, but this? This is a real cold snap."So cold, in fact, that many of the 52 lobster boats anchored in Cape Porpoise were frozen in place Thursday morning after yet another night of sub-zero cold.Because of the prolonged cold weather, some Maine...