Snow in Madrid, Spain!
Man caused Global Warming is losing support. Maybe because of the actual weather across the globe. This Winter is turning out to be another unusually cold and snowy one. How about this from Breitbart. Madrid, Spain was paralyzed by a rare snow storm and cold temperatures! The same story talks about the extreme cold in Germany.
In Germany, the death toll from the cold snap rose to three and several rivers were frozen over, blocking ship traffic, authorities said.
Drift ice covered 80 to 90 percent of the surface of the river Elbe from Doemnitz to the Germany’s main port of Hamburg in the north, a spokeswoman for the Water and Shipping Office said.
Meanwhile, Russia has decided to shut off the natural gas to parts of eastern Europe.
As temperatures plummeted throughout the continent, around a dozen European nations were suffering the effects of Russia’s decision to turn off the natural gas supplies transiting through Ukraine to Europe.
Bulgaria received no Russian gas for the fourth day in a row as temperatures plunged to minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and heavy snow covered most of the country.
Meanwhile the extreme cold in Alaska and Canada is set to move into the U.S. next week. If you live east of the Rockies, get ready for VERY cold air. New York City could be below zero for only the second time since the 1940s!
Alaska, and the World, Needs Your Help!
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The temperatures are getting downright uncomfortable. Of course this only adds urgency to our cause. We MUST stop this Global Cooling for our children’s sake!
In parts of the country it has been extreme snow. So much snow that avalanches are causing problems for some ski areas and even some deaths. Here is that story.
On the “Global Warming” front, it’s quite the opposite. Alaska, known for it’s cold in the Winter is having an unusual bitter cold arctic outbreak. Here’s an excerpt from an article from AP on Yahoo! News that has not been archived. Maybe the Associated Press wants you to forget how cold it can get so you won’t FIGHT to warm things up!
Alaskans are accustomed to subzero temperatures but the prolonged conditions have folks wondering what’s going on with winter less than a month old.
How cold is it?
Johnson lives in Stevens Village, where residents have endured close to two weeks of temperatures pushing 60 below zero.
In Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, residents are used to lows of about 10-degree temperatures in January — not 19 below zero, which is what folks awoke to Wednesday morning.
Temperatures finally settled to about 10 below at midday, but that was cold enough to cancel races in the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships.
More evidence that its the Sun that causing all of this cooling. As it continues to be less active, we on Earth continue to cool. This article from the Daily Mail in England outlines how scientists are concerned about less solar wind. The solar wind protects the inner solar system from Cosmic Rays. Weaker solar wind means more danger for astronauts. It also makes sense that a quieter Sun means less solar radiation. It follows that that would cause the Earth to cool!
This is horrible news if it’s true. If the Sun is causing the Earth to cool there is very little any of us can do. This would be a major set back for our efforts to warm things up around here. It would also put a big damper on the governments of the world that are trying to cool things off. I have a feeling that they won’t be deterred. Neither will we! We must continue to do all we can to warm things up even in light of this evidence.
Astronauts returning to the moon could be threatened by cosmic rays as a result of the sun becoming less active, scientists have said.
The sun’s ability to shield the solar system from harmful radiation could falter in the early 2020s, research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology claimed.
Don’t be discouraged and don’t give up!
Oregon Chill
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Yesterday I mentioned the big chill I enjoyed in Oregon in the 1970’s. It was referenced this morning on KGW as Portland is snowing in the 20’s with no warm up in sight. Here’s the video.
Pretty exciting storm with snow at the Oregon Coast even! Temperatures falling into the 20’s this morning with 1-3″ of snow right down to the Willamette Valley Floor. Snow is expected to end tonight, but the cold is just getting started!
In case you are too busy to watch the video. The weather guy is saying that temperatures should stay below freezing at least through next weekend. If that happens it will be the longest stretch of below freezing temperatures for Portland since the 1970’s.
As you know, this means we must redouble our efforts to warm up the planet!
Great. Now it’s snowing in the South!
A dusting yesterday in Austin. Houston a dusting to a half inch. Beaumont got 2 inches! It’s 7am Mountain time as I write this and FoxNews just showed a live shot of snow falling in New Orleans! It looked like it might be sticking on the grass.
Mississippi still under a Winter Storm Warning. Jackson now expecting 1-3 inches this afternoon/evening.
Please drive your SUV around the block a few times and maybe hyperventilate. We need all the CO2 in the atmosphere we can get!
Old Farmer’s Almanac Prediction – Long Term Cooling
Old Farmers Almanac says bundle up
The 2009 Edition is out. I had the fun task of interviewing one of the editors. Turns out the Almanac’s famous weather prediction for this Winter is colder for much of the nation. Indeed some of the country is expected to be MUCH colder!
In addition, in this edition, the meteorologist for the Almanac says that we (the whole planet) are in for a LONG TERM cooling period! Why? For the exact reasons I’ve been warning about here. The Sun has already entered a less active period. Solar scientists look at solar cycles and predict that the Sun will be quiet for the next few decades. Historically that has meant colder weather.
Another thing that came up during my interview with The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the oceans currents. Specifically, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. If you have been reading this blog then you know I have been talking about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation for over a year now. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says it has now flipped to a cold phase. This will contribute to colder and drier conditions along the west coast and will contribute to colder temperatures in not just Alaska, but much of the country for the next few decades! We must act now to reverse this trend if that is even possible. While the government is trying to cool us off we should be doing everything possible to warm things up!
There is a similar current in the Atlantic. The Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation. It is currently (get it? CURRENT-ly) in a warm phase. It’s why Dr. Grey and others have been talking about a 30 year period of high hurricane activity. I guess we are 10 years or so in. What The Old Farmer’s Almanac and others are saying is once the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation flips to a cold phase, it’s going to get REALLY cold! One Russian scientist is so sure this is going to happen that he has a bet with a fellow scientist. The Russian is betting that the temps from 2012 to 2017 will be colder then temps between 1998 to 2003.
Here’s where you and I come in. Please PLEASE please trade in your fuel efficient car for a big gas guzzling (and much safer, by the way) SUV. Be sure to rabbit start every time the light turns green, and drive a little over the speed limit. Not only will you add an ounce or two of wonderful CO2 to the atmosphere, it’s FUN!
