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Coldest Winter For Decades In Northern Hemisphere
Phil Brennan
February 19, 2008
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/global_warming_or_cooling/2008/02/19/73798.htmlAre
the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are there****ts
just a lot of scaremongering by the advocates of the globalwarming
theory?Scaremongering appears to be the case, according to re****ts from
theU.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that
revealthat almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA
re****tshows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles
inJanuary 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almostback
to their original levels.Moreover, a Feb. 18 re****t in the London Daily
Express showed that thereis nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than
usual, challenging theglobal warming crusaders and buttressing arguments
of skeptics who denythat the world is undergoing global warming.The Daily
express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to amelting
iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need tofight climate
change and has been used by former Vice President Al Goreduring his
"Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impacton the global
climate.Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month
ofAugust when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population
hassoared in recent years.As winter roars in across the Northern
Hemisphere, Mother Nature seemsto have joined the ranks of the skeptics.As
the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere hasendured
its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across thearea is at
its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the oneexception - Western
Europe, which had been basking in unseasonably warmweather, until the
weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 Cin some places.Around
the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviestsnowfalls
in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, andCanada were
hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy thatover 100,000
houses collapsed under the weight of snow.Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and
northern Saudi Arabia re****t theheaviest falls in years and below-zero
temperatures. In Afghanistan,snow and freezing weather killed 120 people.
Even Baghdad had asnowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.AFP
news re****ts icy temperatures have just swept through south China,stranding
180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just asthe area was
recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, thegovernment said Monday.
The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll inusually temperate Yunnan
province, which has been struck by heavysnowfalls since Thursday, a
government official from the provincialdisaster relief office told
AFP.Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency re****ted,
andfour remained missing as of Saturday.An ongoing record-long spell of
cold weather in Vietnam's northernregion, which started on Jan. 14, has
killed nearly 60,000 cattle,mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press
re****ted Monday. By Feb. 17,the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle
in the region, including7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai,
and 5,571 in Bac Canprovince, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal
HusbandryDepartment under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and
RuralDevelopment, according to the Pioneer newspaper.In Britain the
temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England,according to the Express,
which re****ts that experts say that Februarycould end up as one of the
coldest in Britain in the past 10 years withthe freezing night-time
conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 ****il at least the middle
of the week. And the BBC re****ts that a buscompany's efforts to cut global
warming emissions have led to servicesbeing disrupted by cold
weather.Meanwhile Athens News re****ts that a raging snow storm that
blanketedmost of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early
morninghours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures.
Theagency re****ted that public trans****t buses were at a st
andstill onMonday in the wider Athens area, while ****ps remained in ****ts,
publicservices remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the
moreseverely-stricken prefectures were also closed.Scores of villages,
mainly on the island of Crete, and in theprefectures of Evia, Argolida,
Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and theCyclades islands were snowed in.More than
100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete andtemperatures in
Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldesttemperatures were
recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina,where they plunged to
-12 C.Temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the
coldesttemperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and
Florina,where they plunged to -12 C.If global warming gets any worse we'll
all freeze to death.© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.--Warmest
RegardsBonzo"How does a small increase in a very small component [of CO2]
have sucha large apparent effect [On Climate]? The truth is that no one
has yetshown that it does." Don Aitkin
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