Record Spring Snowstorm and Antarctica Hype Again

Storm total snowfall at the Great Falls airport for the three day period of April 27...28...29 measured 25.4 inches. This is an all time three day snowfall record which surpasses the previous record of 18.1 inches set November 26...27...28 in 2005. Snowfall at the Great Falls airport for the two day period of April 28...29 measured 24.2 inches. This is also an all time snowfall record which surpasses the previous record of 17.3 inches set April 19...20 in 1973.
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The AP is again is playing up the cracks in the Wilkins ice Sheet in The story Antarctic Ice Sheet Falling Apart. The AP reports scientists warn massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice - an area larger than Rhode Island - was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks. While that seems large it is just 0.048% of the Antarctic ice sheet and will quickly refreeze in the rapidly growing ice shield that will more than double its size during the long southern winter. Also not reported is the fact that the current ice sheet remains well above normal for the time of year in the 30 year record (1,250,000 square km above the normal about 21.7%).
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Temperatures in April were very cold for early fall with temperatures as low as -104F at Vostok and -90F at the Amundsen Scot AFB at the South Pole.

3 WSJ Letters to the Editor: How much CO2 can EPA control? | GORE LIED

Why the reluctance to state that the cost is billions of dollars to the general population, as we will all pay for this folly?

John Fischer
Palatine, Ill.

[Allegedly] Growing Interest in the Climate Change [Scam] | Reuters

A two-year old Climate Change Market Index developed by HSBC in Britain is getting attention from at least one of the biggest pension fund investors on this side of the pond, signaling to U.S.-based manufacturers that positioning themselves to take advantage of a green economy is a good bet going forward.

Investors will increasingly seek companies making climate change-related products. Kevin Bourne, managing director of equities in HSBC’s global banking and markets unit, told about 100 attendees at the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit in Chicago this week.

“It doesn’t matter if investors believe in climate change or not, they know it’s a good investment category,” he said. “But investors are global and if they can’t find your company, they can’t lend their money to you. The tough question is how to let investors know that you’re involved in climate change.”
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After Bourne’s formal remarks at the summit, he told me HSBC has just signed on one of the largest U.S. employee pension funds as a new client to gain access to the companies listed on its climate change index. While he wouldn’t name the fund specifically, Bourne said it was among the four largest: either California State Teachers’ Retirement System, California Public Employees Retirement System, State of New York Employees’ Retirement System, or the Florida Retirement System.
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Howard A. Learner, executive director of Chicago’s Environmental Law & Policy Center and President Barack Obama’s chief climate change advisor during the presidential election campaign, was fervent that a green revolution is underway. “People are either getting on board for the ride or they’re running fast to catch it,” he says. “The pace of change with clean energy development, wind power and other new technologies is all happening very fast.”