Maryland Weather: AccuWeather.com: No "Snowmaggedon" next winter

This time, Bastardi predicts, it will be the Northwest, the Northern Plains and the western Great Lakes that see the worst of winter weather. "The rapid cooling of the globe with the La Nina will produce severe cold for Alaska and northwest Canada, and in fact the Canadian winter will be as harsh as last year's was gentle," he said.

The big snows will fall on Chicago, Omaha, Detroit, Minneapolis and Cleveland, if he's right. Seattle will have a rough go, too.

[In Schneider's review of "The Climate War", he spent a lot of time plugging his own book]

So denial of global warming became de facto government policy, since the ideology of protecting entrepreneurial rights over public amenities was Reaganite doctrine.
...In the last chapter of Contact Sport, I ask a scary question: “Can democracy survive complexity?” [Because the voters in flyover country are too stupid to realize that CO2 is dangerous?] My National Geographic Society editors thought that too much of a downer as my final chapter title and substituted “What Keeps Me Awake at Night.”
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There are many places where you can get into the set of details that are credible in the case of the climate debate, but Contact Sport is, if you forgive the shameless self-service, a place to start, with its balanced sweep of how we got to where we are in this debate of more than four decades.
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Restoring a civil public dialogue would, to me, be the most important first step we could take to heal the climate and the public rift over protecting our common heritage.
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Stephen H. Schneider died July 19, three days after submitting this review.