Cold weather tough on diesel engines

A South Dakota State University specialist offered tips on dealing with the stress that severe winter weather places on diesel engines and their fuel systems.

SDSU Extension farm safety specialist Dick Nicolai said engine shutdown occurs when fuel gels, fuel lines freeze, or fuel filters plug.

When will the global warming take effect? | newsleader.com | The News Leader

Your Dec. 26 front page headline (Report: Faster climate change feared for U.S.) makes no sense. We can all feel how much colder the Earth has gotten in the past two years, and cooling is the opposite of the earth-ending warming you've warned about.

Is this new "study" just another effort to distract us from the reality that temperatures are defying the Greenhouse Theory — again?

CO2 didn't predict the strong warming from 1915-1940, or the moderate cooling from 1940-1975. Nor the non-warming from 1998-2006. Nor the sharp 0.6 degree C cooling since early 2007 that has taken our temperatures back to the level of 1940.

Sunspots, not CO2, started predicting the current cooling in 2000...

This looks like a reprehensible attempt by Munich Re justify higher insurance premiums via CO2 hysteria

Munich Re said that 2008 continued the long-term trend of increasingly frequent weather extremes and ensuing natural catastrophes which will result in greater and greater losses.

"In the international debate, we as a company press for effective and binding rules on CO2 emissions, so that climate change is curbed and future generations do not have to live with weather scenarios that are difficult to control," Munich Re Board member Torsten Jeworrek said in a statement.

Natural disasters 'kill 220,000 in 2008'

Natural disasters killed more than 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and confirming that a global climate deal is badly needed, the world's number two reinsurer says.

Although the number of natural disasters was lower than in 2007, the catastrophes in 2008 were more destructive in terms of the number of victims and the financial cost of the damage caused, Germany-based Munich Re said in its annual assessment on Monday.