Sunday, January 10, 2010

Cold "weather" in [an allegedly] hot "climate" - Capital "Weather" Gang
It's absolutely true that extreme heat generates coverage of climate change, whereas extreme cold does not. But where skeptics see a media conspiracy to ignore cooling, I see an effort to accurately communicate climate science to the public. Of course there is a "possibility" that the earth is cooling, but virtually every peer reviewed climate study has shown the opposite to be true.
[Intrade: Another all-time low hit (25 cents on the dollar)]: - A cap and trade system for emissions trading to be established before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2010

Cold stuns Floridians, causes deaths elsewhere - Yahoo! News
The bad news is they paid in advance for theme park tickets and instead spent more time at shopping malls buying winter clothing — a few hundred dollars worth, he said.

Across Florida, the weather was freakishly cold for a state that's a winter respite for so many. There were snow flurries spotted in several parts of the state, as far south as Naples on the gulf coast.
Photo - Yahoo! News
This image provided by Daytona International Speedway shows crew members of the Chip Ganassi Racing Grand-Am team taking photos of snowmen they built in the pits at Daytona International Speedway after a rare Florida snowfall during winter testing at the track on Saturday, January 9, 2010.
Die Klimazwiebel: A student is asking ....
[Hans von Storch] The air temperature (near Earth surface) has risen since pre-industrial times (ca. 1850) by about 0.7 oC; this warming can not be explained by internal climate variability alone, but can only be understood as a result of contributing external factors, among them elevated GHG levels in the atmosphere.

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