American Thinker Blog: Melting Ice: The Good, the Bad, and the Unbelievable

So then, Global warming can cause global cooling, so we'll instead call it "climate change." And shifts in natural climate events such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Meridional Overturning Circulation or El Nino/La Nina phenomena can explain periods of cooling, but not those of warming. Ditto: Solar Cycles. And now, not only can melting ice trigger cataclysmic cycles of doom when the planet is getting warmer, it can also take the heat as to why things have cooled down of late.

Is 'global warming' really that bad? (OneNewsNow.com)

Climate science is a relatively new science, according to McElhinney, but geology is a much older science. She claims that, when examining geology, there have been warmer periods in the past, such as the medieval warm period. McElhinney says that was a great time for industry and a great time for humanity. "Huge amounts of learning went on [and] a huge amount of enlightenment [took place]," she points out.

Vikings, she notes, were able to colonize Greenland during the medieval time as well and concludes that the notion that warming translates into disaster is "nonsense." Not Evil Just Wrong is set to open in the U.S. in early 2009.

AccuWeather.com News & Blogs: Brian Clark Blog

Anyways, looking at the last 7 days, November 17-23, temperatures have been 12, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 24 degrees BELOW normal.

Mt Washington: 122 MPH Wind Gust and Record Breaking Cold!

Now I normally get up at 5:30 a.m. so that I can relieve the night observer take the 6 o'clock observation to start my day. This morning, mother nature served as my alarm clock with a wind gust of 122 mph (corrected for temperature and pressure at the time of the gust) at 5:33 a.m. That turned out to be the peak wind gust for not only the day, but so far this winter. About an hour before that wind gust, temperatures bottomed out at 25.2 degrees below zero. This broke the daily record low for December 8, which was previously 24 below set back in 2002. This temperature becomes even more impressive when you consider that through all of last winter, the lowest temperature we recorded was 26 below.