Looking back at the Winter Storm Impacts from Texas/Oklahoma to Maryland/Delaware

This is the second major winter hit for the state of Oklahoma and it's believed that no winter has seen two major winter storms hit the Sooner state in the same winter season.

Global warming debates generate much heat, little light in finding truth - NewsoftheNorth.Net, Inc.

On this bitterly cold day in late January, McCaughn, who graduated from Eagle River High School and the University  of Wisconsin-Superior, noted wryly that he had woken up at 5:30 a.m. and the temperature outside his Conover home was 27 below. “They didn’t have anyone to represent the global warming side,” said McCaughn, who had refereed previous forums.
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Drs. Soon and Legates, both of whom have PhD’s after their names and a long list of published papers and honors in their resumes, have not bought into the increasingly popular premise that the earth is getting hotter because of human activity such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestration. Instead, they postulate that climate change is inevitable and that global warming is mainly due to natural causes such as solar activity and other phenomena.
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Asked about Gore’s movie, Dr. Legates called it “very much of a staged show with little substance.”

Dr. Soon likewise poked fun at the former Veep by interrupting his slide slow Saturday by pretending to take a cell phone call from Gore and finding out that he was delayed in his travel plans by a snowstorm in Nashville, Tennessee (Gore’s home state). The audience got a big laugh out of that.

Council has to spend double its budget to keep roads passable (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Bradford Council has forked out nearly £1.5 million to keep the district’s roads useable over the recent severe bad weather, it has been revealed.

Almost £1 million has been spent on supplies of 18,000 tonnes of rock salt which was spread on icy and snowy roads to keep them passable.