Snowy and cold weather grips Macedonia - FOCUS Information Agency

Skopje. Heavy snow and cold weather have gripped Macedonia, making roads slippery and causing traffic problems across the country, the local media reported.

Motorists traveling through mountain passes and high mountain areas are advised to be very careful.

The roads leading to about ten villages in the Kožuf mountains are not passable. Snow clearing machinery is operating.

The snow is up to 40 cm deep in the southern village of Konopiste and other nearby villages. Dozens of vehicles got stranded on the roads in the Kožuf mountains on Saturday.

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[Craig Etchison] The recent letter by Richard Haddad questioning global climate change (“It’s time to rethink causes of global warming,” Jan. 4 Times-News) needs to be rebutted for one simple reason — global climate change poses the greatest threat this country (and by extension the world) has ever faced.

I’m sorry but I have to call this for what it is – complete absurdity. First off, it’s not even entirely clear that “global climate change” is even real, and even if it is, so what. A rise in average temperatures of a couple of degrees cannot possibly compare to 6 million people being murdered because of their racial/ethnic background, the Russian front, the war in the Pacific, the Rape of Nanking, mass starvation, the US Civil war, slavery, and a myriad of other things humanity has faced through the eons. The fact that today someone can view this (possibly imaginary) threat as the biggest threat faced by humanity shows that we are in an era when much of the population is too spoiled and out of touch with reality.

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The most dishonest scientists in history have convinced people that temperature changes completely contained within the noise of natural variability and measurement error, are “unprecedented.”