Shocker: Despite Obama’s Comments, North Dakota Flood Not Caused By Global Warming | Say Anything: North Dakota's Most Popular Political Blog

It’s not global warming. It’s just a once-in-a-decade-or-so bad winter coupled with the unusual geography of the area.

Not that politicians like Barack Obama aren’t above trying to capitalize on disaster and global warming hysteria for the sake of furthering their political agendas.

CO2 Science: Global Warming and Ecosystem Species Richness

Another consequence of the stability of lower range boundaries together with expanding upper range boundaries is that there is now a greater overlapping of ranges, resulting in greater local species richness or biodiversity everywhere up and down various altitudinal transects of the island, the theoretical basis for which outcome we have described in our special report The Specter of Species Extinction.

American Thinker Blog: More Global Warming Scare Mongering From Obama

Barack Obama sat with a group of reporters yesterday and attempted to exploit the suffering of North Dakota’s Red River Valley flood victims to help sell his bogus energy plan. Apparently taking a cue from Al Gore while heeding Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste," the president deflected a question challenging his proposed cap-and-trade system’s devastating impact on the economy by blaming the flooding on global warming – sort of.

A chilly blowout: Cold beats warm 73-27 | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington

SEATTLE -- If the jacket seems like it's been a more frequent part of your wardrobe than usual this winter, you would be correct.

UW Research Meteorologist Mark Albright found that over the past 102 days -- basically since the big December cold snap began on Dec. 12 -- we have been below normal 73 of those days, with just 27 above normal and a paltry two days at the normal high temperature for the day.

But if you break it down further, you'll realize just how much colder it's been.