Calgary and southern Alberta left under a white blanket after record snowfall | Home | Calgary Sun

Calgarians suffered the same white plight that befell Edmonton just the day before as record amounts of snow blanketed the city and the rest of southern Alberta.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Cold leaves east, but not far ...

Cold leaves east, but not far east.. even as winter invades US west, plains, another Beijing blasting snowstorm on way pic.twitter.com/mZqaMt8D

Obama’s climate change quandary | Reuters - The Great Debate

Whether or not climate change made Sandy the beast it was, this latest storm was a preview of what global warming has in store for us ‑ big storms, with big storm surges, made worse by rising sea levels.
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This is where the president should start, with the work that’s being done. He does not need to finger Sandy as the storm that swept climate change into the country. (That might even be a mistake, as the cold winter that is coming on the East Coast has already begun to bring out the climate denier in those who tend toward denial.)

Is Washington Ready to Act on Climate Change? - The Daily Beast

the public is starting to see its effects, with severe droughts across the South and Midwest and devastating hurricanes along the East Coast.