AccuWeather.com - Winter of 2009-2010 Could Be Worst in 25 Years
Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill.[So heat waves are caused by Hummers, but cold waves are caused by natural "pressure patterns"?]: Cold Arctic Pressure Pattern Nearly Off Chart - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
"It'll be like the great winters of the '60s and '70s," said AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist and Expert Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi.
The last time a large swath of severely low temperatures struck the nation was in January 1985. That historic arctic outbreak had below-zero temperatures Fahrenheit stretching from Chicago eastward to New York City, and all the way south to Macon, Ga.
The contribution of this pattern to current weather hasn’t been highlighted much by most of those drawing attention to the chilly conditions of late, though.Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"
"The science of global warming is an example of an indefeasible position. It is immune to logic, empirical data, history, and common sense. Lets hope that in 2010, we as a race grow in wisdom and discernment, and the ability to recognize fallacies when we hear them, no matter how authoritative the source."A reader question regarding USHCN sites | CLIMATEGATE
My question is “How many of the closed sites showed cooling in theN.J. Nuclear Power Plant Forced To Slow Operation Due To Floating Ice - cbs3.com
original data while NASA’s Hanson was touting warming?” Also, is the
original unadjusted data available for all the USHCN sites from the
beginning of each station’s measurements?
A nuclear power plant South Jersey was forced to partially shut down due to ice on the Delaware River.Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade
Residents of Miami donned heavy coats and wool mufflers Monday to face down the coldest weather to hit the usually balmy city nearly in a decade.
This subtropical city's fabled beaches, normally thronging with sun worshippers this time of year, were all but deserted after temperatures plummeted to around zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Climatologists?
"Why were Sovietologists wrong?
According to Kevin Brennan:
"Sovietology failed because it operated in an environment that encouraged failure. Sovietologists of all political stripes were given strong incentives to ignore certain facts and focus their interest in other areas. I don't mean to suggest that there was a giant conspiracy at work; there wasn't. It was just that there were no careers to be had in questioning the conventional wisdom...
..There were other kinds of institutional biases as well, such as those that led to the..."Team B" Report."[40]
Seymour Martin Lipset and György Bence write:
"Given these judgments of the Soviet future made by political leaders and journalists, the question is why were they right and so many of our Sovietological colleagues wrong. The answer again in part must be ideological. Reagan and Levin came from rightist backgrounds, and Moynihan, much like the leaders of the AFL-CIO, from a leftist anti-Stalinist social-democratic milieu, environments that disposed participants to believe the worst. Most of the Sovietologists, on the other hand, were left-liberal in their politics, an orientation that undermined their capacity to accept the view that economic statism, planning, socialist incentives, would not work. They were also for the most part ignorant of, or ignored, the basic Marxist formulation that it is impossible to build socialism in impoverished societies."
Brzezinski's 1969 collection, Dilemmas of Change in Soviet Politics demonstrates this point, of "the fourteen contributors...Two-thirds (four out of six) of those who foresaw a serious possibility of breakdown were, like Levin, Moynihan, and Reagan, nonacademics. Three quarters (six out of eight) of those who could not look beyond system continuity were scholars.[16]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_Soviet_collapse
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