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Global warming??????? I wish!!! Im freezing my arse off here!!!

"Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the New Ice Age," Lorne Gunter, National Post, February 25

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901–2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them….

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record"?...

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year….

Kenneth Tapping of our own [Canadian] National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850….

It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

By esanch36 on Feb 26, 2008, 08:34 in Off Topic.

MaFe says on Feb 26, 2008, 08:42:

I am freezing here too!!

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

Man Tequila says on Feb 26, 2008, 09:06:

Well, I agree one year shows nothing.

As for the hysteria of the global warmers, the world is littered with dead and defunct societies that destroyed their own environment. Welcome to Easter Island.

Aunque no me creas/ si me lo propongo/ lograre olvidarte/ porque a fin de cuentas/ no soy tan cobarde./ Y termino todo una de estas tardes/ no sera dificil buscar algún sitio donde refugiarme/ donde nunca mas vuelvas a encontrarme. (Polo Montañez)

Colombiche says on Feb 26, 2008, 09:18:

It's cold up here. Far too cold.

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

ColombianoGringo says on Feb 26, 2008, 10:02:

What? Do you all live up North? It is getting to be pretty nice around these parts.

MaFe says on Feb 26, 2008, 11:38:

CG Houston!! Oh how nice that must be!

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

ColombianoGringo says on Feb 26, 2008, 11:43:

It is 62 right now, but yesterday it was in the 80s. That is a bit hot for this time of year.

scotty says on Feb 26, 2008, 16:09:

so much for the global warming fanatics.

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

podborski says on Feb 27, 2008, 16:35:

they/ve been quiet lately, no?

I don't know if I buy the easter island argument man t? (although frankly I don't even know what happened there...damn I must be getting alzheimers)

Assuming the people there destroyed the place (entirely plausible), I don't think you can project that to the globe as a whole.

Here's my sad attempt at an analogy:

A bunch of drunk teenagers can wreck a car, maybe a whole bunch of cars, but they can't wreck every single car in the world.

If you see what I mean?

houstongal says on Feb 27, 2008, 20:03:

Hey MT...is it cold where you are in Mexico? We were freezing today at the office. It's supposed to get down to the 30's tonight. And outside of Veracruz there was a mini-hurricane going on. One of my staff members couldn't go climb the tanks to count inventory. Crazy weather!

Culture is language and language is culture - Dr. Annamaria Napolitano

dwmte7 says on Feb 28, 2008, 16:14:

got no clue how cold it is anywhere else, but here in flori-duh, it's cold enough to freeze brass nuts. so fuckin cold i wish i was somewhere else. couple of more days of this. it even snowed in ponce inlet. i don't know which 'global' is worming, but it aint this one.

dwmte

LDW says on Feb 29, 2008, 11:03:

My information is that Al Gore has a huge home in Tennessee for which his annual power bill is more than $20,000. If this is true, then what credibility do he and his ilk have?

Does anybody in this forum have any information on that?

Kinda sounds like Noam Chomsky: do as I say and not as I do.

travelingirl says on Feb 29, 2008, 11:40:

Yeah, it is true. Gore's electric bill made the headlines early last year after everyone made a big deal about his documentary. In 2006 he used 221,000 kWh which was reported to be 20 times more than the national average. I read that his combined electric and natural gas bill was "nearly" $30,000 in 2006. I bet it would be more than that if he didn't live in a TVA area.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

MountainTop says on Feb 29, 2008, 12:02:

Thank God I have a suana in my house. Spring will be here in 3 weeks. I hope!

mranderson says on Feb 29, 2008, 17:10:

Nobody can prove global warming. The politicians with their made up scientists are trying to convince everyone that it is happening. They say that the glaciers are melting. The south pole has more ice than ever before but nobody says anything about that. My grandmother was convinced that we are about to go into an ice age. If that's true then I'm glad I relocated close to the equator. :)

scotty says on Mar 1, 2008, 00:41:

You notice how you dont hear anything about global warming in the winter, the fanatics will start whinning again about June. oh my god the polar bears, the ice caps, new york will be under water, we are all doomed. then December comes around and everyone is freezing their azz off.

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

Desideria (Moderator) says on Mar 1, 2008, 06:24:

This has been the warmest winter in Scandinavia for 100 years or since they started keeping records. Spring started a whole month before the usual time. The average Feb temps in Finland have been as much as 6 degrees celcius above the median. It's been snowing in Athens and people are freezing to death in Turkey. Yes, we speak of global warming, climate changes, whatever in the winter too. The world is NOT JUST the US and CANADA:

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."-President George W. Bush

huskie says on Mar 1, 2008, 15:07:

It has very cold around here too, Bakans area
Cheers

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