Thursday, January 07, 2010

Global Warming Hysteria: Declining Poll Numbers From a Rational Public » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
Increasingly, the governing class seeks to push the governed where they don’t want to go. That works in autocratic societies. But we are still free. Unless the global warming alarmists change their ways, the public’s support for fighting “climate change” will continue to deflate like a tire punctured by a nail.
Weather-related death toll rises to 22 as Britain braces for coldest night yet - Times Online
The death toll from Britain’s biggest freeze for decades reached 22 today as the country prepared for its coldest night so far, bringing the promise of even more treacherous conditions.
Stories from Ice-bound Britain - contains video
5.32pm Michael Dukes, the forecast manager at Meteogroup, says the Nasa satellite image of Britain shows snow over almost the entire country. He says that the swirl of cloud over East Anglia is the cumulus cloud system that caused snow showers today.

“You can clearly see the whole of Britain covered in snow there,” he said. “It’s very unusual to have such uniform coverage. I’ve seen many similar images in text books but never such an even cover as that.”
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4.58pm Icy conditions have caused so many accidents in the Hartlepool area that the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton has run out of crutches.
Worst Winter Ever? | StarTribune.com
But when you combine the cold, the wind, the ice, the snow, the general gloom in the zeitgeist, and the grim knowledge that the winter has three months of full-strength hell to go, well: yes. It could be the worst. Until the next.
During Blizzard: WTTW Touts Global Warming for Corporate Sponsor | Chicago Daily Observer
As placid interviewer Jay Shetsky held the microphone, global warming enthusiast Howard Learner (head of the Environmental Law & Policy Center) recited the catechism of Warming…in temperatures so cold Learner’s nose looked like a ruddy ice-cube. The location shot was an abandoned coal plant taken over by Exelon under federal subsidy where a wind energy project is being constructed with federal subsidies…to combat-this dastardly threat to all our lives.

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