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Weeks of rains leave 47 dead in Philippines - Oneindia NewsCold air from northeast Asia coming into contact with warmer air in the tropical country helped cause the unusually heavy rains. (AFP)
Cold weather killed swallowsCold weather coming from north Europe hit in a short time in west Bosnia. The temperature dropped quickly near zero and we looked for warmer clothing and turned on the heat in our car.
Approaching our destination, we stopped at a gas station near the town, Kljuc. As soon as we exited the car, to our surprise we saw hundreds of dead swallows covering the ground.
Freezing Vietnam: "The record low temperature this year had frozen over 7,000 buffaloes and cows to death" The record low temperature this year had frozen over 7,000 buffaloes and cows to death in more than 12 northern mountainous provinces, said Deputy Head of the Livestock Breeding Department Nguyen Thanh Son on Friday.
In mountainous Lai Chau province, 160 new livestock deaths were reported, together with a staggering increase in cold-related cattle deaths in 11 other provinces.
Thumb down: Cold weather takes tragic toll on manatee population » TCPalm.comCOLD CASE DEATHS: Picture a dead manatee washed up on the shoreline. Now, picture a dozen of the gentle sea cows dead. Picture 50 in the water, their bodies lifeless.
Picture 97 dead manatees and you'll get an idea how severe the death toll was last year. That's the number that died last year on the Treasure Coast alone, compared with 42 the previous year. It's almost impossible to picture the 767 manatees that died in Florida waters last year, an estimated 500 killed by cold weather.
Prof. S. Fred Singer speaks to San Diego Lynceans on climate change Dr. Singer has been the butt of literary abuse by politicians and global warming advocates. He carries a copy of Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway’s Merchants of Doubt, marked with the places he’s named in the book with their scathing attacks. Too-many-to-count paper post-it markers fringe the pages.
Climate change advocates and alarmists have a way of signaling who they’re afraid of. Singer is a marked man in their book.
Climate change deniers skilfully fuel doubtHistorian Erik Conway did two things this week that might seem counterintuitive, if not downright odd.
He voluntarily left the warmth of Pasadena, Calif., where he works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to come to Edmonton during the middle of a bitter cold snap. And while here, as thousands of Edmontonians coaxed their cars to life for the frigid commute home through snow-choked roads, Conway entered a lecture hall at the University of Alberta to present a lecture on global warming.
[In case you missed it]: Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those 'Global Warming' documents | The Examiner | Op Eds | Washington ExaminerImportantly, also under FOIA in late 2009, the pressure group Greenpeace sought, and was promised, e-mails and other materials of Patrick Michaels, who also formerly worked in the same university department.
While the university proceeded to compile the material for Greenpeace, one of us, Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, thought to ask for records relating to Michaels' former colleague, Mann. Oddly, the university informed Marshall that such records no longer existed because Mann had left the department.
Climate Realist Makes Focus Magazine’s Top 100 Influential GermansThe latest press release from the Helmholtz Institute, in Geestacht, Germany features Professor Hans von Storch and reports that he has been placed on the List Of The Top 100 Influential Germans by FOCUS magazine, who have dubbed him “The Climate Realist”.
Why are gays more eco-friendly? | GristA recent poll says gays and lesbians are more likely to support the environment, especially when voting or shopping, and a bigger percentage say they care about sustainability.
The Silent Treatment « NoFrakkingConsensusIt takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that one’s opinions are so correct that acknowledging other perspectives grants those perspectives more air time than they deserve.
Yet such attitudes are disturbingly common in the climate change debate. And they are one of the reasons reasonable people have begun to take a closer look at the party line.
Is Corporate E-mail Private E-Mail? « NoFrakkingConsensusBut there is one point about which we should not be confused. Contrary to the opening line of this news story, these are NOT private e-mails. E-mail messages sent at the place of one’s employment, pertaining to one’s on-the-job responsibilities, belong to one’s employer.
Dr. Kevin Trenberth tells this reporter, “I personally feel violated.”
Bogus claims on Australian and Brazilian floods from ABC and Dr. Richard Sommerville | Watts Up With That?Well perfessor, while a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor content, I call BS on your statement. The climate has always changed. The same argument is being used to hype increased hurricane threats, and as we’ve seen from Dr. Ryan Maue, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) says the linkage just isn’t there.
The headline of course is sensational, they really didn’t put any thought or research into the Brisbane, QLD flooding, they simply drew a conclusion and found somebody to support it with a soundbite. I’ve seen plenty of examples of this style of crappy TV news journalism in my career. Professor Somerville apparently couldn’t be bothered to do a little historical research before claiming the floods in Queensland were connected to “global warming”, neither could ABC News.
Save the planet! Don’t breathe | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogMelbourne’s Scienceworks museum does its best to make children seem like planet-killing oxygen thieves.
EU Referendum: The madness of greenThen came the electric car. Said the BBC, there are hopes that the electric car will capture the imagination of British motorists this year. Thus did the BBC's Brian Milligan take up a challenge to drive from London to Edinburgh in an electric car. It might sound easy, we were told, but under the rules, he was only allowed to charge the car's battery at public points.
In between driving he read a lot of books because charging took 10 hours. In all, from London to Edinburgh, it took four days it took to complete the journey – twice as long as it had taken in the 1830s, with the stage coach. That is progress, greenie-style.
Cold-stunned sea turtles finding shelter at Gulf World Marine ParkPanama City Beach -- With much of the nation experiencing a cold weather snap, cold-stunned sea turtles are once again being brought to Gulf World Marine Park in Panama City Beach for rehabilitation.
On Thursday, 75 cold-stunned turtles arrived. Friday, 80 more were added to the ranks, with more on the way. Most of the turtles are coming from St. Joe Bay, where the large area of shallow water is more easily affected by cold weather. Volunteers and personnel from several organizations find cold-stunned turtles moving very slowly, or not at all, and work together to bring them to be rehabilitated at Gulf World Marine Park.
On Our Radar: India's Warmest Year on Record - NYTimes.comThe past year was India’s warmest since record-keeping began in 1901, the authorities say, with average temperatures reaching nearly 77 degrees Fahrenheit. “This is a definite impact of global warming,” says the director of the Indian Meteorological Department. “Warming started around 1970 but the real impact has been felt only in the last 10 years.”
Did Australia's obsession with global warming contribute to the Brisbane floods? – Telegraph BlogsMight the politics of environmentalism itself – the contemporary obsession with global warming as the greatest threat to mankind – have exacerbated the impact of the flooding in Brisbane? It seems possible that Aussie politicians’ and officials’ deeply held conviction that the main problem we face today is increased heat, droughts and a lack of rainfall caused them to take their eye off the ball in Brisbane, and to be unprepared for something as relatively normal as very heavy rainfall.
Rain Is Associated With Cold Air | Real ScienceOne of the remarkable fairy tales to have come from shape shifting climate science in the past year, is that rain is associated with anomalously warm air.
As you can see below, the relationship is exactly the opposite. Climate scientists used to know that (dry) deserts are hot, before they had their IPCC frontal lobotomies.
Weather Underground Forecasting All Time Record Cold For The Northern Hemisphere Tonight | Real ScienceThe coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere is -90F.
Al Fin: Year 2020: "Throw Another EV on the Junk Pile, Harv!"Electric motors certainly provide great acceleration, and electricity from the grid is less expensive than gasoline. But I have followed advances in battery technology for almost 20 years, and the progress has been incredibly slow. Until we see multiple significant breakthroughs in battery energy density, power density, costs, and sustainability of materials, electric vehicles will perpetually remain confined to a small niche market.
New Study Shows Electric Cars Will be Uneconomical in California | The SPPI BlogCalifornia’s ridiculous environmentalist movement is about to be shown the folly of its ways. A new study shows the “electric cars” so prized by the “green movement” will never be economically feasible in California due to our electrical rates.
El Nino seen triggering next world warmth record | ReutersA current La Nina, widely seen as a factor causing floods in Australia that have killed at least 19 people, is a natural cooling of the Pacific that mirrors El Nino.
Other natural events that affect temperatures include variations in the sun's output, shifts in ocean currents or big volcanic eruptions such as that of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, whose ash dimmed sunlight worldwide.
Jones said that warming from 1979 to 2010 had been 0.51 degree Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit), or 0.016 C a year. But annual natural swings were far bigger -- in the largest 20th century shift, 1977 was 0.29 degree C warmer than 1976.
Jones was cleared of scientific misconduct last year after hacked e-mails raised questions about the reliability of data in the "Climategate" controversy.
UK: Water firm reveals 'astonishing' caller numbers due to cold weatherThe firm's chief operating officer, Steve Shine, said the number of calls were 'astonishing' as 103,000 were handled - up 78% on the 58,000 received in December 2009.
Around 80,000 of these calls were about either burst supply mains on the company's network or frozen pipes on customers' properties.
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"Water in our reservoirs and pipes cooled down to below 1.5C (degrees Celsius) at the end of December, the coldest we have ever recorded at that time of year, way under the average of 7C.
MURRAY: Politicized science costs us all - Washington TimesConsider one of the cases that supposedly drove the need for these new guidelines - that of NASA scientist James Hansen. He and the previous administration had completely divergent views on what policies should be followed to fight global warming. This led to Mr. Hanson to complain about being gagged by NASA's public relations machine, despite the fact that he managed to give more than 1,000 interviews during the Bush presidency.
What do the guidelines say about this situation? They say that scientists must be free to give interviews on the scientific and technological aspects of their work. That's it. There is no freedom given to scientists to discuss policy aspects of their work, nor should there be. Scientific policy is for policymakers to decide. NASA is within its rights to keep Mr. Hansen from commenting on "cap-and-trade" while he is on its payroll. (For the record, he rightly opposes it, while this administration supports it.)
Boulder Scientist Gets His Car Started In Sub-Zero Temperatures | Real ScienceThen goes to work to warn about massive increases in temperature.
Tale of the Global Warming Tiger | Watts Up With That?Like the fictional warriors of my Tiger’s Tale, Global Warming Alarmists and Warmists attack the “Tail” which, in this instance, is a metaphor for human-caused warming (AGW – Anthropogenic Global Warming). It makes them feel good to talk about reducing the causes of warming over which we humans may have some control: CO2 from fossil fuels and land use that reduces the Earth’s albedo. But, since AGW, like the Tiger’s Tail, is a minor part of the threat, their solutions, the cap and trade scam for carbon indulgences and painting our roofs white and wearing reflective tinfoil hats for albedo, are all out of proportion. Yes, we should do what we can to improve energy efficiency and use nuclear and clean coal and renewable sources and recycling and much of the rest, but we should not wreck our economies taking actions that can have little effect to solve a problem that is not any kind of crisis.
- Bishop Hill blog - Fixing the skyFor centuries, farmers in Austria shot consecrated guns at storms in attempts to dispel them. Some guns were loaded with nails, ostensibly to kill the witches riding in the clouds; others were fired with powder alone through open empty barrels to make a great noise -- perhaps, some said, to disrupt the electrical balance of the storm.
EU Referendum: In serious troubleBut such have been the delays that, in the sub-zero temperatures which have dropped to -27°C at time, the ice field has extended and thickened, and it will be now a best part of 100 miles before the ships reach clear water. And in between, there is "a very difficult stretch of ice floe", according to the fisheries company spokeswoman, Tatyana Kulikova.
“Stick With The Facts – Look At The Data”That’s Joe Bastardi’s advice. But some out there are sure the warming is going to continue no matter what. “Just look at the models!”, they keep saying. Problem is, models are not data from observation, instead they are scenarios of data that might be measured in the future.
The start of this decade certainly isn’t paying attention to the models, as Joe Bastardi explains in his latest video here.
'Why will no one listen to us any more?' wails AGW propagandist – Telegraph BlogsPoor Bob isn’t the only victim of “Climate Change” apathy. Ryan Maue at Watts Up With That has found numerous further heart-rending examples of green activists who just aren’t being listened to any more.
Are these floods really just a warmist’s “event”? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogWhen warmists start describing these rains which they didn’t predict as the “extreme events” which they actually did, we see how a trick of language or definitions makes their theory unfalsifiable. “Extreme events” becomes the label that’s stuck on anything that doesn’t fit with what was predicted, to make it the exception that was predicted. And so no matter what happens, the warmist is always right.
EU Referendum: Questions may be askedThat the fair Louise uses the words "most respected" is interesting. Most respected by whom, one wonders – especially when Hansen's GISS, masquerading as NASA, is an object of derision to the average "denier". This appears to be the classic reliance on the power of "prestige" to bolster a failing case.
More IPCC Mischief « NoFrakkingConsensusReport cites research accepted for publication 29 months after deadline
Cold wave to hit Chin State and northern Arakan StateThe regional weather pattern has created cold waves in India with record low temperatures in some areas.
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The death toll from India’s months-long cold wave has risen to nearly 130 people.
Washington Post: The energy deal that's still possibleWith global warming deniers now in charge of the House of Representatives, there would seem to be little hope for major legislation on clean energy or climate in this Congress.
Reasons to cool it on global warming - Opinion - The Orange County RegisterDr. Singer contends the science always has been on the side of skeptics. We tend to agree. On close inspection, the much-touted "consensus" that global warming is a manmade threat never was true. Such matters in the scientific community are difficult to document, other than anecdotally. But thousands of scientists, including climatologists, meteorologists and researchers, even some formerly affiliated with the U.N.'s own climate-change panel, have voiced their qualms and complaints with warmist orthodoxy.
The Climate Post: Amidst a giant snowstorm, 2010 declared hottest year ever | GristNot everyone can have the media savvy of Snooki, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's timing couldn't be worse: with snow in every state but Florida (yes, even Hawaii), the agency just announced 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year for global temperature. And scientists wonder why they continue to see polls like this.
Trenberth’s Bile « Climate AuditTrenberth described his recommended tactic in a Climategate email as follows:
So my feeble suggestion is to indeed cast aspersions on their motives and throw in some counter rhetoric. Labeling them as lazy with nothing better to do seems like a good thing to do.
World News Australia - Fall of Roman Empire linked to climate"Relatively modest changes in European climate in the past have had profound implications for society," says Michael Mann of Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.
Other studies have shown how war and climate are often intimately linked. For example, periods of unusually cold weather in China during the last millennium preceded 12 of the 15 major bouts of warfare.
Peter Foster: The coming green car pileup | FP Comment | Financial PostGiven that the political wind has gone out of climate legislation in the United States, and that the science of global warming is looking less consensual than ever, there are even more reasons to doubt President Barack Obama’s Soviet-style objective of putting one million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.
1992: Climate Scientists Tell EU “Billions To Die By 2030″ | hauntingthelibraryThe following is a verbatim reprint of the Greenpeace press release covering the report:
Two German researchers, in a report for the European Commission, estimate that the total costs of climate change resulting from a doubling of carbon dioxide will exceed $900 trillion ($900 thousand billion).
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Starvation: an extra 900 to 1,800 million deaths
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The authors emphasize that they consider their estimates conservative
Frustration on global warming deepens for supporters of climate change bill - The Hill's E2-Wire “There are more skeptics of catastrophic man-made global warming than there have ever been as part of this global warming movement,” bragged Matt Dempsey, the spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Senate’s best-known global warming skeptic.
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Another issue plaguing Democrats is the weather. Winter isn’t exactly the best time to be arguing that the climate is warming. Climate skeptics are always happy to point to freak blizzards and cold-snaps to argue their case.
CTV News | Beyond the bottle: Coke trumpets its green initiatives“Seventy-five per cent of Canadians versus 45 per cent of Americans recycle plastic bottles, 73 per cent of Canadians versus 50 per cent believe excessive packaging fills up excess landfills, and 77 per cent of Canadians versus 27 per cent of Americans are concerned about global warming and climate change,” [Nikos Koumettis, the president of Coca-Cola Ltd. Canada] said.
Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product of Global Warming - ABC NewsScientists: Climate Change No Longer a Theory, It's Happening
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The pictures today from around the world of dramatic rooftop rescues from raging waters, makes it seem as though natural disasters are becoming an everyday occurrence. But they're not all that natural; climate scientists say man-made global warming is the sudden force behind the forces of nature.
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"Because the whole water cycle speeds up in a warming world, there's more water in the atmosphere today than there was a few years ago on average, and you're seeing a lot of that in the heavy rains and floods for example in Australia," Sommervile said.
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The added moisture in the atmosphere also explains the phenomenon we've seen this week at home -- where snow blanketed the ground in 49 of 50 states. During yesterday's snowstorm, Hartford, Conn. and Albany, N.Y. both set records for snowfall in a single day.
Ezra Klein - Wonkbook: 2010 hottest year on recordThere is no doubt, at this point, that we are leaving a warming world for the next generation. And this is not merely like leaving health-care reform undone, or infrastructure unbuilt: Those problems might persist, but they are not much harder to solve in 2020 than in 2010, or 1990. Climate change, however, doesn't merely persist. It accelerates. As the Earth warms, it burns through the protections -- like the permafrost covering the Siberian peat bogs and the ice caps cooling the Arctic -- that moderated temperature increases during our lifetimes. And the next generation doesn't get to call for a do-over. They just get a much harder problem to solve, and one that's much further along.
Icy Florida shivers | Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota | WTSP.comStudents at Florida State University awoke this morning to find a fountain outside Doak Campbell Stadium glazed over with a thick layer of ice and covered with long, dangling icicles.
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Much of Florida was shivering. Sixty of 67 counties were under a freeze or hard freeze warning overnight. The statewide low was 20 degrees in Crestview.
Winter brings fiery killer into Afghan homes - Pakistan/AfghanistanBut aside from the threat of burns, the main problem posed by heating and cooking is the smoke, which the World Health Organisation said kills 54,000 Afghans a year. Most of those killed are children under five, it said.
The WHO has also ranked the problem as one of the worst health risks facing the poor. Burning solid fuels inside is also a large problem for other regional countries like Pakistan, China and India.
More than 95% of Afghanistan’s 30mn people burn solid fuels, such as wood and coal, in their homes, said the World Health Organisation, making it one of the top 10 countries worst-affected by indoor pollution.
NASA - Despite Subtle Differences, Global Temperature Records in Close AgreementFor example, while GISS previously ranked 2005 warmest, the Met Office listed 1998 warmest. The discrepancy helped fuel the misperception that findings from the three groups vary sharply or contain large amounts of uncertainty. It also fueled the misperception that global warming stopped in 1998.
“In reality, nothing could be further from the truth,” said Hansen. Global temperatures have continued to rise steadily.
Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate[caption] A pair of chinstrap penguins in Antarctica. New research suggests that, if carbon dioxide emissions continue on their current trajectory, Earth may return to a climate of tens of millions of years ago when the Antarctic ice sheet did not exist.
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[A new study] warns that, if carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current rate through the end of this century, atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas will reach levels that existed about 30 million to 100 million years ago, when global temperatures averaged about 29 degrees Fahrenheit (16 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A New Scientific LowNow [Trenberth] has gone totally off the scientific reservation into astrology or the occult or something. He is saying that there is a high probability that if CO2 levels were 120ppm lower that, for example, the floods in Pakistan would not have occurred. This is pure conjecture, absolutely without facts, and probably bad conjecture at that. After all, similar events of similar magnitude have occurred through all of recorded history in exactly these locations.
Wimp & Sellout Watch — No.3 « Green Hell BlogSimpson says the EPA is the “scariest agency” and it is “running amok.” If he means what he says, then he should take decisive action now.
Climate Change Dispatch - Exposing the fraud in the so-called consensusEx-CIA agent emails former colleagues of disgraced United Nations professor offering millions for evidence of climate fraud.
Kent Clizbe took time out from a busy work schedule this week to help climate skeptics in efforts to nail one of their biggest targets in the global warming scam, Penn. State University professor, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann.
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 13th 2011 « The Daily BayonetA hippie made Israel’s forests burn, GE is taken to the cleaners for cleaning and escaping CO2 puts the cool fizz in Saskatchewan.
Trenberth’s upcoming AMS meeting talk: ClimateGate Thoughts | Watts Up With That?Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) a U.S. publicly funded research center, uses the term “denier” six times in this upcoming talk, which he has submitted as a preprint to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in full public view. I’m reproducing it in full below, with only one comment: he uses the word “denier” six times in his address, one that will reach hundreds if not thousands of AMS members. I’m disappointed that the AMS embraces this language.
The Reference Frame: Kevin Trenberth's weird opinions about the climateTrenberth's rant is much richer when it comes to fringe political declarations. We learn that "the planet is already over-populated" and our usage of the atmosphere leads to "the tragedy of the commons". That's what breathing boils down to: I kid you not. Trenberth wants to introduce a planned economy "for decades ahead" because he finds it bad that politicians may be replaced in "the next election" (a concept known as democracy); recall that James Hansen is working hard to become an official ideologue of the Chinese Communist Party. And the sectors that climate change "scientists" such as Trenberth should influence include "environment, but also energy, water, sustainability, the economy, foreign policy and trade, security and defense."
In other words, Mr Trenberth and other kibitzers want to become universal dictators. Do I undestand well, Mr Trenberth? The last thing you should think about is how to extend your power. Instead, you should be thinking how to humbly undo your largely inexcusable behavior in recent years so that you will spend as little time in the prison as possible.
Climate a factor in Rome's rise and fall: study | ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of global warming in the 21st century.
Good growth by oak and pine trees in central Europe in the past 2,500 years signaled warm and wet summers and coincided with periods of wealth among farming societies, for instance around the height of the Roman empire or in medieval times.
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The study said: "Wet and warm summers occurred during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity..."
The last refuge for a disappearing icon of the north : McGill ReporterThe future for polar bears looks bleaker than an Arctic vista. Rapidly melting sea ice, particularly the summer ice, may contribute to triggering a impending devastation of the polar bear population, which scientists recently estimated to be between 20,000 and 25,000. It is expected that over the next 20 years, two-thirds of those animals could disappear.
...The Greenland ice sheet is currently losing more than 250 cubic km a year – faster than can be explained by natural melting.
Officials unveil anti-inflation steps - Korea[Korea] Customers shop for vegetables at E-Mart in Yongsan District, central Seoul, yesterday. The retailer announced that it was cutting prices for nine vegetable products after they rose due to supply shortages caused by the recent cold weather. The retailer said the price reductions could amount to as much as 57 percent. The move came as the government unveiled anti-inflation steps. [NEWSIS]
EPA gives break to biomass over climate - CNBCGRANTS PASS, Ore. - Under pressure from some members of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is easing up on regulating global warming pollution from facilities that burn biomass for energy.
The agency said Wednesday it needs more time to figure out whether biomass — including farm waste, sawmill scraps and forest thinnings — is really a green fuel.
HSBC: 2011 a good year for climate [hoax] investmentTheir analysts say in a new report:
Doubts about science have been replaced by the realities of extreme events and rising commodity prices. The shocks to European renewables incentives sparked by the fiscal crisis appear to have run their course, and efforts to drive energy efficiency will be intensified in the EU in the next 12 months.
Firms in Japan, Korea Oppose Start of Carbon Trading - BusinessWeekJan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese and South Korean companies, adopting arguments that helped block carbon trading in the U.S., are opposing government plans to set up emission markets worth a potential $212 billion by 2020.
The Federation of Korean Industries said Jan. 11 that starting emissions trading in 2013 would add to the cost of doing business and put the country at a disadvantage unless Japan and China do the same. Keidanren, Japan’s largest business lobby, said 61 of 64 companies that responded to a survey in September opposed introducing carbon trading.
Climate e-mails and public records - Roanoke.comThat the e-mails are public documents seems clear. Mann, while a professor at the school, used an e-mail account at least partially paid for by taxpayers. Just as an elected official's or state worker's official correspondence is open to the public, so is a professor's at a state school.
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The school estimated it would cost up to $8,000 to deliver the e-mails. That sounds high, but then we do not know how much of a mess their backup servers are. Whatever the accurate cost, if Marshall and friends will pay it, they do not deserve any more hassle from UVa than any other citizen seeking public records.
Commonwealth Foundation - Mann: From Transparency Champion to 'Bully' Victim UVA has been resisting (spending about $500,000 on outside lawyers for the effort) a similar, previous request by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, who is investigating Mann under the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.
Mercury dips to 2.2 deg C at Phulbani; Orissa death toll 2 - Oneindia NewsBhubaneswar, Jan 12 (PTI) Freezing cold tightened its grip across Orissa with the mercury sliding to 2.2 degree Celsius at Phulbani even as one person succumbed in Balangir district today, taking the death toll due to cold in the state to two.
A beggar was found dead inside a sleeper coach of Surat-Puri Express train at Kantabanji railway station in Balangir district this morning and was believed to have died due to severe cold conditions, Superintendent of Police Ajaya Sadangi said.
Flood warnings: hottest year confirms global warming say experts - TelegraphDaniel J. Weiss, who directs climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, told the Washington Post, said the figures should force the world to take action.
"Hopefully, this new data will finally convince congressional climate-science deniers that global warming is real and that action is urgent," he told the Washington Post. "To reject this latest evidence is like ignoring strange spots on a chest X-ray and continuing to smoke."
New Brit awards statuette is unveiled | Music | The GuardianCreated by the influential British designer Vivienne Westwood, godmother of punk and grande dame of the UK fashion scene, it features a vintage-style union flag draped around the traditional statue, which wears a bronze helmet embossed with the Westwood logo.
The award will also be the first of its kind to carry a political message. At its base is scrawled: "Stop! Climate change." Some may question the grammar, but it is hard to argue with the sentiment.
EU Referendum: Off and on it goesThe rescue operation in the Okhotsk Sea has now been resumed, but it was set back more than was at first admitted yesterday when the towing cables broke. As we now learn, the towing equipment was damaged as well.
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If this was being carried out in Western waters, with – say – a tourist ship involved, there would by now be wall-to-wall coverage as the drama intensified and the weather forecast offered a deteriorating situation. But because those at risk are Russian and a long way away, this is all you get.
Amid unusually cold weather, Seoul faces blackoutsThe government urged South Koreans Wednesday to dig out their thermal underwear and turn down the heating, warning that some areas may otherwise face electricity blackouts amid unusually cold weather.
Knowledge Economy Minister Choi Kyung-Hwan said electricity demand has hit a new record three times this winter so far.
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The ministry urged people to wear thermal underwear instead of turning on heaters in offices, cut heating during the peak hours of 10 am to noon and 4 to 6 pm and use stairs instead of lifts.
In teeth-chattering cold, new Oklahoma governor vows to support and 'offend' the Constitution | StarTribune.comAt an outdoors ceremony in bone-chilling and teeth-chattering cold, Fallin told Oklahoma Chief Justice Steven W. Taylor that she would "support, obey and offend" the U.S. and state constitutions.
"She dropped the 'd'," Fallin spokesman Alex Weintz said Wednesday. "I was amazed that anyone was able to speak at all or get any of their lines right considering how cold it was outside." It was 29 degrees and light snow was falling when Fallin recited her oath of office on the steps of the state Capitol.
Claim 2010 tied with warmest year ever lacks historical perspective To say the 2010 was tied with the warmest year on record is essentially meaningless when viewed in a true historical context.
If NOAA was truly objective in their analysis of this 130 year period of temperature they would acknowledge that 130 years of record in the long history of climate is insignificant to the extreme. The reason they do not give this record its true historical context is because their statement is really political. Their true message is that global warming is causing the warm weather and that we need to abandon fossil fuels and somehow change to “renewable” energy sources.
If one takes a serious, adult look at the variability of weather and climate over time you find amazing events. In the winter of 1249 it was so warm in England that people did not need winter clothes. They walked about in summer dress. It was so warm people thought the seasons had changed. There was no frost in England the entire winter. Can you imagine what NOAA would say if that happened next year? But it did happen, 762 years ago and burning fossil fuels had nothing to do with it.
Winter fatal for some homeless people | shreveporttimes.com Four individuals found dead in 30-day period
Sri Lanka: Five die of cold in Vakarai/Batticaloa townAt least five persons have reportedly died due to the cold weather in Vakari and Batticaloa this morning as a cold wave swept across several areas of the country.
AGA Vakari R.Rasakulanayagi said they have died due to hypothermia.
BBC weatherman tries to clear Met Office but digs deeper hole « Autonomous MindInteresting. The Met Office don’t issue seasonal forecasts to the public any more, but Hudson at the BBC was led to understand in October that the probability of a cold winter was higher than normal. Perhaps this was chatter between old colleagues or professional courtesy. But it wasn’t something being doled out for public consumption. What is noteworthy is that Hudson was saying this on his blog at the same time as this, now widely retailed, ‘scorchio’ probability map (below) was published on the Met Office website.
S.Korea minister says he's cautious on carbon trading | Energy & Oil | ReutersSEOUL Jan 13 (Reuters) - A mandatory emissions trading scheme could hurt South Korea's export-driven economy and drive up costs for companies, a senior government official said, in a sign of possible divisions within the administration.
Choi Kyung-hwan, Minister of the Knowledge Economy, told reporters on Wednesday the planned national carbon trading scheme would cost companies up to 36 trillion won ($32.46 billion) if fully implemented.
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"I don't understand why we push forward the scheme, which Japan decided not to run," Choi told reporters.
Chris Mooney | The House Anti-Science Committee?Still, Hall has said that the ‘ClimateGate’ pseudo-scandal suggests there’s a “dishonest undercurrent” in the scientific community. Actually, it shows a “dishonest undercurrent” in the community's critics. If Hall can’t see as much, then one can legitimately worry about his chairmanship.
And if Hall is planning to conduct climate science investigations and potentially subpoena climate scientists, that makes things even worse. According to ClimateWire, such hearings may be on the table—and Hall may let the next anti-science GOP leader of the committee head them up: Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin.
Sri Lanka : Lowest recorded temperatures in 61 years? Jan 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka is experiencing record low temperatures currently, the Meteorology Department says.
According to the Meteorology Department the temperature in Colombo has dropped to 18.8 Celsius (65 Fahrenheit). Reportedly, it is the lowest recorded in 61 years.
How to tame the media, not be tamed by it - Dan Gillmor - Salon.comTo use an admittedly extreme example, when you're doing a story about the Holocaust, you don't need to balance it by quoting a neo-Nazi. Nor is it "showing balance" to quote a climate-change denier in every story about global warming -- not when scientists who study these issues have concluded with rare, near-universal fervor that climate change is not only real but presents an existential threat to civilization as we know it, if not to our species.
NASA's Glory Satellite Will Study Climate Change Causes : Discovery NewsThe two instruments will work together to help scientists understand the dynamics of global warming and identify its causes.
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By knowing how the whole spectrum of electromagnetic energy, from X-ray to infrared, fluctuates scientists will better understand how the sun itself effects the Earth's temperature. That way, changes in the sun's energy can be sorted out from natural and human-caused influences on the climate.
Utilities Lobbying to Raise Your Energy BillsIt's no secret that when you rob Peter to pay Paul, Paul is enthusiastically supportive. Sometimes the whole idea was Paul's to begin with. Like with carbon dioxide cap-and-trade, cooked up by Enron and BP in the mid-'90s, joined by entities like utility Niagara Mohawk Power (I was in the room), and now run with by all manner of rent-seekers including GE and Goldman Sachs and Al Gore but mostly driven by electric utilities. Including those like Duke Energy run by a fellow who took Ken Lay's philosophy with him when he moved on from his post as Enron executive vice president.
These utilities now poor-mouth that they're just seeking to make the best of a bad, 'inevitable' situation. One that wouldn't exist but for them. Principally, Duke Energy, Exelon, and PG&E among other leading lights hoping to make Obama's vision of 'necessary skyrocketing electricity rates' -- not all of which increase goes to the state, of course -- into reality.
Democrats say hottest year on record a wake-up call on global warming - The Hill's E2-WireSen. John Kerry and other advocates for climate change legislation say data showing that 2010 was tied for the hottest year on record should prompt action.
“How many times do we have to be smacked in the face with factual evidence before we address global climate change? Report after report keep confirming it’s getting worse every year,” Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a statement Wednesday.
Kerry added: “Will we find common ground and adult leadership or keep piling the science on a shelf to collect dust?”
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Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) also flagged the NOAA report Wednesday. “The hottest year on record is a difficult fact to deny,” said Markey, the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee.
“This is another warning siren that should serve as a wake-up call to Congress to take action to reduce dangerous carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs that reduce the impacts of climate change,” he said.
'Arctic Oscillation' Spilling Cold into North America and Europe | SolveClimate NewsAccording to Serreze, a negative Arctic Oscillation can help in two different ways. First, prevailing winds when the Arctic Oscillation is negative tend to keep older, thicker sea ice cover — which is more resistant to melting — in the Arctic instead of being transported through Fram Strait and into the North Atlantic. "The real important thing is it tends to basically sequester old ice in the Arctic Ocean,” he says.
Second, it tends to cause ice to diverge over the central Arctic Ocean, which "would leave areas [of open water] where new ice could grow.”
The problem, he says, is the overall warming of the ocean and atmosphere in the Arctic may be changing some of the relationships between sea ice and seasonal weather patterns. "What we’re starting to see is indications that those old rules don’t really apply that well anymore.”
Ocean acidification: one less thing to worry about | Washington Examiner“There is solid evidence that elevated atmospheric CO2 levels have actually caused carbonate deposition to increase over the last 220 years,” Middleton writes.
In fact, CO2 may actually be good for coral reefs. “It appears that in addition to being plant food… CO2 is also reef food,” he points out:
“Over the last 400+ years the Earth’s climate has warmed ~0.6°, mean sea level has risen by about 9 inches and the atmosphere has become about 100 ppmv more enriched with CO2; and the Great Barrier Reef has responded by steadily growing faster…. Once again, we have an environmental catastrophe that is entirely supported by predictive computer models and totally unsupported by correlative and empirical scientific data,” he concludes.
“We can safely pitch ocean acidification into the dustbin of junk science.”
Snow causes Conn apartment building roof collapseNORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Ten people had to be evacuated from their homes when the roof of a Norwich apartment building partially collapsed under the weight of snow.
Purnia chill claims cop's life - The Times of IndiaKISHANGANJ: A sub-inspector (SI), Ajit Kumar, died of cold at the police lines barrack in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Kishanganj SDPO told TOI on Wednesday that Kumar, an SI of the 1994 batch, was found dead on his bed at the police lines barrack. He died due to cold, the SDPO said. Kumar had retired for the night at the police lines barrack after patrol duty.
Are Democrats Pre-Emptively Caving on Climate Change? – Red, Green, and BlueI learned last week that Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is floating the idea of stopping EPA’s work to reduce carbon dioxide pollution for at least one year.
Michelle Malkin » Global Warming Update: Snow in 49 StatesSnow is currently on the ground in 69.4 percent of the lower 48 — it would be on 70.2 percent of the ground but Al Gore covered a field of Tennessee Irises with one of his sport jackets so they wouldn’t frost while he was wintering in his new California mansion.
Science Website Publishes WWF Press Releases Verbatim « NoFrakkingConsensus How many instances of WWF-generated content are there on ScienceCentric’s website? We’re actually given that number at the bottom of this page: 467. Ten entries are listed per page and there are 47 pages in total. Indeed, it appears likely the count will top 500 before summer arrives.
Attention scientists and science organizations: If you care about the integrity of your profession, if you care about the reputation of science itself, you cannot remain silent. Websites such as ScienceCentric are telling the world that press releases from pressure groups are an example of legitimate science news. You need to declare loudly that this is not the case.
NOAA data ranks 2010 as tying for warmest year on record - National Climate Change | Examiner.comPrecipitation globally was one area that was not lacking in 2010. The year ranked as the wettest on record since 1900 far exceeding the 1961 – 1900 average.
Picking on Penguins « The Daily BayonetStudying penguins to see what global warming may be doing to them appears to be doing more harm than a small increase in temperature ever could. Why do warmists hate birds so much anyway that if they can’t shred them they study them to death instead.
FoxNews.com - Scientists Inadvertently Killing Penguins, Researchers FindThe survival rate of King penguins with metal bands on their flippers was 44 percent lower than those without bands and banded birds produced far fewer chicks, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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The scientists singled out potential problems with research on global warming's effect on penguins. Banding may have skewed the data, but climate change is still harming and will harm penguins, they said.
Saraux said a study she did a couple years ago -- without bands -- showed harm to penguins from global warming.
Glenn Beck Weighs in on 'Spider-Man' - NYTimes.comMr. Beck, who said he saw the show on Saturday, also praised the musical’s kooky portrayal of scientists who are preoccupied with global warming, such as Norman Osborn, whose experiments mixing human D.N.A. with that of spiders help trigger the main plot of the show.
Tagging bad for penguins: Study | World | News | Toronto SunScientists often tag penguins with steel bands under their flippers to track their movements and gather information, but a new study suggests the practice is killing the animals.
Biologists studied 100 king penguins for 10 years, half of which were flipper-tagged and half of which were not. The results, published in the journal Nature, show penguins with flipper bands had a 16% lower survival rate and produced 39% fewer chicks than the band-less birds.
That's because the bands caused a “drag effect,” which made them swim slower and arrive at colony sites for breeding much later than other penguins. They also took much longer to complete foraging trips.
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Penguin observation, notes the study, is a key component of climate-change research. Scientists compare changes in penguin population to things like rises in sea temperatures.
But if the tools of scientific observation are affecting the birds' population, that means the data is tainted.
“Our understanding of the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems based on flipper-band data should be reconsidered,” the study says.
Could Global Warming Impact Huge Snowfall? | Radio Boston | Programs | WBURShocked at how much snow we’ve gotten this winter?
Turns out, this wintry weather is actually quite predictable. At least, according to one line of research.
Dr. Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Lexington-based Atmospheric and Environmental Research recently authored an op-ed in the New York Times connecting global warming to both extreme cold temperatures and a huge amount of snowfall in Siberia.
Recovery Act spent over 600 million dollars on climate change research; billions on GHG mitigation « ClimateQuotes.comThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), better known as the stimulus act or stimulus package, was passed with the stated goal of helping our economy. It was meant to create jobs and boost consumer spending. Opponents of the nearly $1 trillion act pointed out that many of the provisions had nothing to do with helping the economy.
Looking back at a few different documents, I've found that the stimulus act spent over $600 million dollars on climate change research among three Federal agencies. In addition, there was $25 billion spent on researching different greenhouse gas emissions mitigation options.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead State of the State Address transcriptWith respect to our coal and our oil and gas industries, I support research and development of carbon capture and sequestration technology.
I am skeptical about man-made global warming without more and better science; but I am not skeptical about growing demand by our energy customers for cleaner coal and gas, and I am not skeptical about our oil industry’s need for carbon injection technology for enhanced oil recovery.
Climate change exhibit Atmosphere may be pretty but it lacks punch | Alice Bell | Science | guardian.co.ukThe framing of the gallery might be one of debate, but the museum still seems to be set on feeding information to its audiences.
Because there is so much on offer and it's hard to concentrate on the gallery floor, you can have short, text-based articles emailed to yourself from the gallery to read later. However, the "donotreply" email address says something about how far the museum is prepared to discuss its content.
Providing information in this way is, in itself, not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe we ask too many questions of climate science rather than taking time to listen.
Midwest Gasoline Rises as Holly Shuts Oklahoma Refinery Units - BloombergHolly said preliminary findings indicate that extremely cold weather caused the refinery’s steam-producing boilers to shut down, according to a company statement.
Krauthammer wonders at the delusions of the media « Hot AirAnd that’s why those metaphors get used by politicians across the spectrum as well as journalists: because people understand them as metaphors. No one thought Manchin would haul out a rifle on the floor of the Senate and drill a hole through a bill he opposed. Similarly, no one thinks that an “air war” in the context of a political campaign means that one candidate will get in a plane and drop incendiary bombs on hostile precincts. That term refers to TV and radio advertising. If anyone thought for a moment that Barack Obama really meant that he’d get guns out to settle political debates or that Sarah Palin really wanted people to reload guns for the same purpose, neither could get elected dogcatcher in any jurisdiction in the US.
Death toll hits 42 in southern Nepal cold spell - Monsters and CriticsKathmandu - Eight more deaths from a cold wave in southern Nepal brought the toll to 42 in less than two weeks, police said Wednesday.
Police said seven people were reported dead on Tuesday, and one more on Wednesday.
Cause of Death Released for Fruitland Man - KTRV Fox 12Ontario, Oregon -- We now know how a Fruitland man died last week after his body was found in an Ontario parking lot.
According to the autopsy report, 27-year-old Israel Zuniga, Jr., died of hypothermia. Investigators say he wasn't wearing adequate clothing for the cold temperature and that alcohol was likely a factor.
The Government Auto Show - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineWith four inches of snow blanketing Detroit outside Cobo Convention Center and flakes falling on 49 of 50 U.S. states (Florida excepted), GM announced at the Detroit Auto Show this week that it is developing an all-electric vehicle fleet to combat . . . global warming.
Americans are flocking to snow-covered dealer lots to trade in their compact sedans for four-wheel drive SUVs, but The General also rolled out a new Chevy subcompact and the first Buick compact.
C3: Do Alaska's Crabs Really Prefer Global Warming? You Betcha!, Say Peer-Reviewed ExpertsThe IPCC's Climategate alarmist scientists have predicted that warming ocean waters will endanger sea life. This alarmist prediction apparently has no merit as growing research finds that warming waters enhance sea life.
The latest study, Stoner et al., discovers that the red king crabs achieve better growth rates and a likely increased survival span due to higher temperatures.
Warning: Smoking, And The Climate Change It Causes, Can Cause A Slow And Painful DeathYes – smoking is not only bad for your health, but also helps to kill the climate. According the World Health Organisation, about 1.1 billion people worldwide smoke, and this number is expected to triple over the next 25 years.
All that smoke and tobacco farming will surely have an impact on the climate. Smoking alone spews 2.6 million tons of CO2 and 5.2 million tons of methane into the atmosphere every year, says Kuhndt.
Why is Obama still smoking? - The Week[March 2010] Reportedly, when the "Smoker in Chief" wants to light up, he pops out to the West Colonnade, which connects the Oval Office to the Rose Garden.
AmSpecBlog : Dim BulbsNow that the 2011 House is in session, members are lining up to co-sponsor a repeal of the Fred Upton "Too Much Heat, Not Enough Light" Incandescent Light Bulb Ban.
Except, heh-heh -- you dunderheads -- it's not really a ban on incandescents, as a smarter-than-everyone-else reporter from The News & Record of Greensboro, NC explains
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Got that? It's not really a ban, except for retailers, and for people who want to pay 32 times what they used to pay for the Edison bulbs. So get over it.
Bizarro World: Alert for Scam Global Warming Conferences!Dear Friends in the climate community.
Lee Schipper and I are writing to alert you about a group of criminals who have been targeting the climate and environmental communities through email messages announcing fake conferences.
EU Referendum: Fail!Further to our report earlier today, the Voice of Russia tells us that the Krasin and Admiral Makarov have failed to tow the ice-trapped Sodruzhestvo out of thick ice at first go today. According to Fishery Minister Andrei Krainy, the tow ropes broke, so the rescue effort will have to be repeated.
Why are we not surprised?
Shock News : Arizona Almost As Hot As It Was In The 19th Century | Real Science
Videos: SNL Mocks Mayor Bloomberg's Snow Response - GothamistAs Bloomberg, Armisen discussed the city's response to the blizzard and mentioned that New Yorkers shouldn't leave their homes during snow (if they need food, just call for delivery and the Mexicans will bring it to them), promised to get to the bottom of questions like "Where does snow come from?" and "How do I get snow off my car?" and that the Sanitation Department was hard at work...not working, "They're not plowing yet. They're playing cards. That's in their contract. Then, they'll look at Internet porn for an hour or so, stop for lunch. After that comes a two-hour break, then we'll send them home early. But they'll be back at noon when overtime kicks in."
Nebraska > Severe cold hits the homeless hardHe spoke of a woman in her mid-30s who arrived at the shelter Tuesday morning without a coat and wearing only one shoe.
"She was so frozen she couldn't talk, just shivered terribly," Saklar said. The woman had black spots on her feet and legs, a sign of severe frostbite.
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Last Friday brought a man with fingers so severely frostbitten that they couldn't be saved, Saklar said.
Even now, ClimateDepot’s Marc Morano reiterates his call for a “hostile reaction” to climate scientists « Climate ProgressThe scary thing is the size of his audience, even if it only reflects the views of about a third of Americans. Unfortunately, that popularity rating turned out to be enough for Hitler. After all, these kinds of people have lots of guns.
Relentless and funny ridicule of people like Morano and Watts may be the best weapon. They are, after all, more like badly wired toys than actual humans. It worked when McCarthy was exposed as an idiot on TV in 1954. And if Charlie Chaplin’s Hitler parody had been shown throughout Germany in the 1930’s, he would have been laughed out of office.
Peter Sinclair does a great job with the deniers in his Climate Crock videos. If they were expanded and shown nationally, Morano, Monckton, and the rest of them would be laughed out of the country, ending up, like McCarthy, as hopeless and forgotten alcoholics.
» The Far-left ‘Jumps the Shark’ over Tucson Tragedy - Big GovernmentFor those unfamiliar with “jumping the shark”, I’d strongly suggest looking up this Hollywood idiom. It appears we are witnessing this in epic fashion as the far-left shamelessly exploits violence for the second time in four months: first, the fake explosive executions of climate change doubters in last October’s 1010global.org video; now they agonize over the very real Giffords shooting. Both showcase the far-left’s attempts to marginalize and silence their critics, while spewing the same kind of vitriol they ironically claim should end.
Cold Weather and LivestockThis winter's cold, snowy conditions are putting livestock, especially newborns, at risk for hypothermia and frostbite.
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Frostbite in teats and scrotums could be a problem as well. However, frostbitten teats may be difficult to detect. The first sign may be a thin calf. The teat end is affected and can slough. If this happens, the sphincter muscle of the teat may be lost. This makes mastitis a possibility.
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Bulls' scrotums and testicles can suffer frostbite, too. Often these lesions go unnoticed. They can cause temporary or permanent infertility. All herd bulls should have breeding soundness exams 45 to 60 days after the last severe cold spell...
Twitter / Shane Hurst: Only took hour and a half ...Only took hour and a half to get to work today. Thank god for global warming or this could have been a real snow storm
Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center to forecast winter crops production in 2011 at the level of 24-25 mln tonnesThe expert noted that during last 20 years, the wintering conditions in Ukraine improved, and in the nearest 15-20 years the global warming will provide the positive effect at general forming of grain production volumes.
Can Guardian journalists get any more hypocritical? « Autonomous MindOn Planet Carrington (which is no doubt heating uncontrollably and where snow and ice is a thing of the past) the violent rhetoric seems to be a one way street, from evil climate change deniers / criminals / sceptics to those noble, selfless and unimpeachable climate scientists tainted by Climategate or their simple association with the man made global warming alarmist creed. What else could we have expected? If nasty ‘right wingers’ are fair game then it follows the Guardian’s special loathing for anyone opposed to the AGW groupthink makes them fair game for this treatment too.
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So it seems violent rhetoric and imagery was perfectly acceptable to Carrington as it furthered his agenda and was ‘edgy’ and sprinked with stardust. Nice to have him out of the intolerance closet. Here’s a few others
10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride - Where to Go 2011 - NYTimes.comGARZON, URUGUAY
If you happen to be as obsessed with grilling meat — and have as powerful a personality — as the Argentine chef Francis Mallmann, you can manage to pioneer a remote spot like the Uruguayan village of Garzon on your own. A few years ago he left the resort of José Ignacio, bought a chunk of Garzon and built a five-room hotel and restaurant that debuted in 2004 and has attracted the jet set to that dusty town ever since.
And if the rich folk can fly to Uruguay for a meal, why shouldn't I be allowed to eat my room-temperature gruel by the light of a single incandescent bulb that I've purchased myself?
US science academy report calls for 'bipolar' research : Nature NewsThe Arctic and Antarctic share more than frosty temperatures. Both are experiencing rapid environmental change, and provide sensitive bellwethers for the effects of global warming.
USATODAY.com - Antarctic cooling pushing life closer to the edge[2002] While the rest of the world has generally been warming up, much of Antarctica has been cooling for the last 35 years, scientists report.
Mass animal deaths cause many to search for answersMany biologists believe the above fish deaths can likely be attributed to....extreme cold weather. Arctic outbreaks and heavy snows have affected a large portion of the coastal US and UK over the past month. In winter, many fish species move closer to shore to feed amongst the colonies of seaweed. It appears many of our fish friends met their demise simply because of below normal water temperatures. In fact, the water temperature in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, should be in the 50s. It currently sits in the upper 40s. Thats very cold to the temperate aquatic species and can cause real stress to any self-respecting fish.
Boston, Providence, Portland Blizzard Under WayA snowstorm will continue to bury New England today with fierce blizzard conditions towards the coast, creating nightmares for travelers and residents.
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The heaviest snow totals will continue to top a foot across southern New England and northward to Portsmouth, N.H. Earlier this morning, a measurement of 22.0 inches was taken in Ridgefield, Conn.
Cold wave damages crop in Uttar Pradesh, worries farmersLucknow, Jan 12: The agricultural belt around Lucknow has been badly affected by the cold wave sweeping across the state.
Farmers said they feared heavy losses due to the cold weather that has damaged standing crops, and expressed worries about paying off their debts.
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Farmers in other parts of the country also fretted over crop damage due to winters.
About 600 million people of India's billion-plus population rely on agriculture for their livelihood.
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