Dozens of crashes reported in Wausau area; cold makes salt ineffective

Frigid temperatures prevented salt from melting ice on the roadways, said State Patrol Sgt. Jeff Liethen. The results were traffic delays and banged-up vehicles, including sport utility vehicles and trucks.
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"This never happens in summer," said Orv Christian, who was repairing a water main break Monday afternoon on Sixth Avenue in Wausau. At the time, the sun was shining and the temperature had warmed to minus-2 degrees.

It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work - HUMAN EVENTS

The most expensive secret you’re not supposed to know is that George W. Bush leaves office with the planet cooler than when he entered. This dangerous trend threatens the multi-billion dollar “global warming” industry, adding new urgency to the ritual shriek of “we must act now!” in the scramble to impose a costly regime of mandates and energy taxes.
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One prominent former CEO now pushing alarmism says that continued opposition to “climate” policies, specifically a supranational organization to which we cede the necessary authority, will be “paralyzing” and “suffocating”. Officials and opinion leaders similarly argue that the global warming issue is simply too important to be left to democracy and that we must suspend certain such arcane notions, if just for this one issue.

This is madness. It has to stop.

The first step in our recovery is to have a public discussion about why proponents of the global warming agenda must stoop to these tactics.

www.baltimoreexaminer.com: An inconvenient truth: The Earth is cooling

There is no scientific consensus that human activity is causing global warming. The IPCC's own climate change models predicted rising temperatures for this year, but those actually recorded fall short of the predictions.

Yet Gore and his fellow global warming zealots apparently think the rest of us are sufficiently gullible to believe that the current cooling trend "actually illustrates how fast the world is warming," as an AP reporter put it recently.

In the absence of credible scientific evidence of global warming as a man-made problem, Obama's plans to impose draconian climate control measures like those found in the failed Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade proposal are not only unnecessary, they're likely to leave millions of Americans out in the cold.