The heaviest snowfall in 20 years has closed thousands of schools and caused transport chaos up the eastern side of Britain, with London and the surrounding areas the hardest hit.
Six million bus passengers were left in the lurch as all London's bus services were halted because of dangerous driving conditions, and every Tube line except the Victoria line was at least partially suspended.
John Coleman (founder of the Westher Channel) writes:
The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.
How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?
Pravda reports:
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
IBD reports:
As we've noted, 2008 has been a year of records for cold and snowfall and
may indeed be the coldest year of the 21st century thus far.
In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered
63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month
of October.
Global thermometers stopped rising after 1998, and have plummeted in
the last two years by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. The 2007-2008
temperature drop was not predicted by global climate models.
But it was predictable by a decline in sunspot activity since 2000.
The Telegraph reports:
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
CNN Reports:
CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory 'Arrogant'
Network's second meteorologist to challenge notion man can alter climate.
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...NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE IN DENVER FOR DECEMBER 14TH AND 15TH...
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US Senate reports:
POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN.
Debra Saunders reports:
... No wonder, David Bellamy -- an Australian botanist who was involved in some 400 TV productions,
only to see his TV career go south after he questioned global warming orthodoxy -- wrote in
The Australian last week, "It's not even science anymore; it's anti-science."
Bellamy notes that official data show that "in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder,
and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased." Exhibit B: Richard S. Lindzen, the MIT Alfred P. Sloan
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, recently wrote, "There has been no warming since 1997 and
no statistically significant warming since 1995." ...
NOAA reports:
Andrew Orlowski reports:
Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate:
How Parliament passed the Climate Bill.
Posted 29th October 2008 12:35 GMT.
Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall
in the [London] since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for
the last time, in a marathon six hour session.
Lorne Gunter of the National Post reports (Oct 20, 2008):
Also in September, American Craig Loehle, a scientist who conducts computer modelling on global climate change, confirmed his earlier findings that the so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP) of about 1,000 years ago did in fact exist and was even warmer than 20th-century temperatures.
Prior to the past decade of climate hysteria and Kyoto hype, the MWP was a given in the scientific community. Several hundred studies of tree rings, lake and ocean floor sediment, ice cores and early written records of weather -- even harvest totals and censuses --confirmed that the period from 800 AD to 1300 AD was unusually warm, particularly in Northern Europe.
But in order to prove the climate scaremongers' claim that 20th-century warming had been dangerous and unprecedented -- a result of human, not natural factors -- the MWP had to be made to disappear. So studies such as Michael Mann's "hockey stick," in which there is no MWP and global temperatures rise gradually until they jump up in the industrial age, have been adopted by the UN as proof that recent climate change necessitates a reordering of human economies and societies.
IARC-JAXA website reports:
Arctic sea ice now 28.7% higher than this date last year - still rallying
10/14/2008 7,064,219 square kilometers;
10/14/2007 5,487,656 square kilometers.
A difference of: 1,576,563 square kilometers, now in fairness, 2008 was a leap year, so to avoid that criticism,
the value of 6,857,188 square kilometers can be used which is the 10/13/08 value,
for a difference of 1,369,532 sq km. Still not too shabby at 24.9 %.
The one day gain between 10/13/08 and 10/14/08 of 3.8% is also quite impressive.
The Eastern Oregonian reports:
Monday, October 13, 2008
Weekend cold set new record lows
Pendleton breaks 118-year-old record
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports:
Frost 'one more thing' for grape growers:
Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 4:41 a.m.
A record cold snap in Mendocino County over the weekend caused little damage to wine grapes but chilled the hearts of farmers who already have suffered huge losses this year.
McClatchy wire service reports:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather
The Idaho Statesman reports (Oct 11, 2008):
This is the earliest measurable snowfall in Boise since recordkeeping began in 1898,
according to the National Weather Service.
The Daily Mail reports:
The BBC is being investigated by television watchdogs after a leading climate change sceptic claimed his views were deliberately misrepresented.
Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says he was made to look like a 'potty peer'
on a TV programme that "was a one-sided polemic for the new religion of global warming".
NASA reports:
Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low.
Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.
"The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s," says Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "This is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."
The DailyTech reports:
Drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth.
The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single
visible sunspot being noted.
The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity - which
determines the number of sunspots - is an influencing factor for climate on earth.
According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a
spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749.
...
In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and
Spoerer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. On was large enough to be called a "mini ice age". For
a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens,
yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.
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Andrew Marshall writes:
When it comes to CO2, however, there is a much more important factor to analyze than simply statistical interpretation. Al Gore popularized the CO2/temperature connection in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in which he showed the correlation between the two on a graph. However, he interpreted the graph as evidence of a cause and effect relationship. His information came from an ice core sample related to CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. However, paleoclimatologist and earth sciences professor at USC, Lowell Stott, released findings of a study in September of 2007, which concluded that, “Deep-sea temperatures warmed about 1,300 years before the tropical surface ocean and well before the rise in atmospheric CO2” at the ending of the last ice age, which “suggests the rise in greenhouse gas was likely a result of warming,” not the cause of warming.[3] [Emphasis added]
The Chicago Trib reports:
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.
This summer's highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That's unusual. Since 1928, only one year.2000.has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13.
From The Australian:
...She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."...
From Canada's National Post:
...Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future....
George Will writes:
What Friedrich Hayek called the "fatal conceit" -- the idea that government can know the future's possibilities and can and should control the future's unfolding -- is the left's agenda. The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods. Hence the left's hostility to markets. And to automobiles -- people going wherever they want whenever they want.
Robert Skidelsky writes:
... This is the second doomsday scenario of recent decades, the first being the Club of Rome's prediction in 1972 that the world would soon run out of natural resources. Both are "scientific," but their structure is the same as that of the biblical story of the Flood: human wickedness (in today's case, unbridled materialism) triggers the disastrous sequence, which it may already be too late to avert. Like biblical prophecy, scientific doomsday stories seem impervious to refutation and are constantly repackaged to feed the hunger for catastrophe....
Charles Krauthammer writes:
... Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment -- carbon chastity -- they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.
Pete duPont writes: ...
The Senate's global warming bill began by capping greenhouse gas emissions and reducing them each year, from 5.8 billion metric tons in 2015 to 1.7 billion in 2050. A Heritage Foundation study calculates that such reductions would cost more than 600,000 jobs a year through 2028 (900,000 in both 2016 and 2017), and the Environmental Protection Agency estimates the annual economic losses at $1 trillion to $2.8 trillion by 2050. Electricity prices would rise about 44% by 2030, and gasoline prices by more than 50 cents a gallon. Existing coal-fired plants, which provide about half of our electricity, would be shut down, requiring nuclear generation capacity would have to expand by more than 150%, to 1,982 billion kilowatt-hours from the current 782 billion, by 2050. That is a good idea--nuclear plants are virtually pollution-free--but doubling the number of them has zero chance of happening in a country that has not started construction of a new nuclear plant since 1977.
John Coleman (founder of the Weather Channel) writes: ...
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist.s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing fraud; what a scam.
The American Physical Society writes: ...
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
Canada's National Reseach Council writes:
Dr. Kenneth Tapping is worried about the sun. Solar activity comes in regular cycles, but the latest one is refusing to start. Sunspots have all but vanished, and activity is suspiciously quiet. The last time this happened was 400 years ago -- and it signaled a solar event known as a "Maunder Minimum," along with the start of what we now call the "Little Ice Age."
Lorne Gunter in Canada's National Post writes:
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that seven mountain glaciers in northern California were advancing. They joined glaciers in southern Norway, Sweden, the New Zealand Alps and the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan. Indeed, worldwide, there are nearly half as many glaciers advancing as retreating.
How did the AP explain this? Well, all the shrinking glaciers it mentioned in its story were melting due to global warming, while the growing ones were "benefitting from changing weather patterns." Glacier melt is proof of a climate crisis, while--on the same planet, under the same global conditions --glacier [growth] is chalked up as a mere natural phenomenon.
Dr. David Evans (consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005) writes:
But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
Patrick Michaels in the National Review writes:
Here.s how Gore works. He.ll cite one scientific finding that shows what he wants, and then ignore other work that provides important context. Here.s a list of his climate exaggerations from his well-publicized July 17 rant, along with a few sobering facts.
The Anchorage Daily News reports:
The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. ...
Arthur Herman in The Australian writes:
IT has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world's oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.
The Times reports:
A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s. ...
