At Least 12 Dead; Midwest Wind Chills Reach Minus 50 - ABC News

With snow continuing to fall in the Chicago area, the Illinois State Police put an emergency snow plan into effect -- telling drivers who had accidents not to call 911 unless there were injuries. About 8 to 12 inches of snow was expected in the area.

Sine Wave  By Rich Galen

# The world would unite around the U.S. as Obama promised to cut carbon emissions here and reverse global warming. Unions would rebound and there would be healthcare for all.

# The Obama Administration is not yet one year old and it is all turned into dust.

# Card check never had a chance. Those pesky foreigners didn't want to buy in to Obama's plan in Copenhagen and the global warming conference fell apart. Town Hall meetings in August are still echoing through the hallowed halls of Congress five months later causing the health care bill to look sicker every day.

It's cold outside. What happened to global warming? / Eoin O'Carroll  [who doesn't have Internet access?] - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

It's not actually that cold
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Yes, it's colder than what we're used to in January, but we're not breaking very many new temperature records.

[Flashback, all the way to two days ago]: The frigid hit parade – over 1200 new cold and snow records set in the last week in the USA, more in progress « Watts Up With That?