Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Emanuel fails to disclose conflict of interest in latest paper | JunkScience.com

Will the insurance companies that MIT’s Kerry Emanuel works for benefit from his latest ‘study’?

GOP post-Huntsman climate blues? - POLITICO.com Print View

"Probably more than any other single issue, Huntsman’s belief in man-made global warming fears guaranteed that his candidacy could never get off the ground," said Marc Morano, former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) who publishes the skeptics' blog Climate Depot. "It's not that GOP primary voters rejected Huntsman, it's that they simply did not consider him at all. "

Andhra Pradesh records coldest winter in its history, 15 dead : South News - India Today

Andhra Pradesh is in the grip of the most severe cold wave in its recorded history which has claimed 15 lives during the last two days as the mercury in most of the 23 districts is three to nine degrees below average.
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The intensity of the cold has surprised all. The southern state, known for its tropical weather, never heard of deaths due to cold wave.
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People in Adilabad district of Telangana shivered as the night temperature fell to below five degrees. The district bordering Maharashtra recorded a temperature of 4.2 degrees, the lowest in over 100 years.

The coastal district of Srikakulam recorded nine degrees, the lowest in decades. The coastal city of Visakhapatnam also registered 11.2 degrees, the lowest in 50 years.

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Cold Wave death toll cross 200. Why this "Kolaveri Di"? Where's my global warming dude?

Temperatures in most parts of India are now running 5-15 degrees C below normal. 
Such was “Kolavehe ri Di" (killer rage), winter has taken over 200 lives within the country as of now.

Global Warming: The Evidence is Endless

If I believed the Earth was slowly turning into cheddar cheese, I could invoke this theory to explain a lot of things. Why is the rat population in our major cities growing so quickly? Earth cheesification is providing more rat food. Why have there been so many earthquakes lately? The cheesification of the tectonic plates has made them less resistant to sudden shifts. Why are glaciers melting? The freezing point of cheddar cheese is lower than that of water; as the Earth at the poles undergoes cheesification, the unfrozen cheese is causing a slight warming of the ice sheets from below, resulting in unusual levels of melting.

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