Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. 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.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
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. (more…)
Meanwhile on the home front, ‘global warming’ (the idea of it at least) is not going anywhere anytime soon. There is way too much money to be made on it as well as the fact that two of our leading presidential candidates (Obama, Clinton) have intertwined major campaign promises around it: the creation of green collar jobs. As for McCain, he has at least promised to fight against global warming if elected (anytime you hear a candidate make a promise to ‘fight’ against something, hold on to your wallet). In fact, McCain is so vested in the idea of global warming that a climatologist blasted him for holding biased hearings on the subject back in 2004.
As far as the non-government sector goes, here is an interesting article I found this morning–
US Giants Play the Green Card but Keep the Coal Fires Burning
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