Monday, January 10, 2011

Huddersfield’s second coldest December on record - Local West Yorkshire News - News - Huddersfield Examiner
HUDDERSFIELD endured its second coldest December in more than 100 years.

Records show last month’s temperatures averaged a chilly -0.21°C.

It is only the second time since 1908, when Met Office records started, that a sub-zero average has been recorded.
PressTV - Icy weather claims 100 lives in India
The death toll from India's cold snap has reached nearly 100 after 13 more people died in the country's north in the past three weeks.

Police spokesman Surendra Srivastav announced on Monday that at least 13 people died overnight in the hardest-hit area, Uttar Pradesh, the Associated Press reported.
A 'Bulge' in Atmospheric Pressure Gives Us a Super-Cold Winter Amid Global Warming - NYTimes.com
According to some climate scientists, the cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of warming, rather than an argument against the phenomenon.
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Differing from the majority of scientists, meteorologist Bastardi presented his "global cooling" theory in a December AccuWeather video arguing that carbon dioxide is a trace gas that has less effect on weather than forces such as the sun.

"There's no need to panic over global warming," he said.
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[Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University] "People don't use their local temperatures as a benchmark," he said. "They are not dodos."

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