Pennsylvania governor bracing for cold - UPI.com

HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The governor of Pennsylvania [Ed Rendell] signed an emergency declaration to ease restrictions on gas and heating fuel deliveries because of cold weather.

[Last month: Pennsylvania governor wants to save us from devastating warmth]

"The recommendations in the plan not only can help stave off environmental devastation due to climate change but will have enormous beneficial impact on our economy," said Governor Rendell. "The Climate Change Advisory Committee estimates the plan could result in the net creation of 65,000 new full-time jobs and add more than $6 billion to the state's economy."

The Canadian Press: Snow on French Mediterranean, parents fight for sleds, as Europe shivers through cold snap

Last weekend, avalanches killed seven people in Switzerland at the start of its ski season.
...[London] A charity call centre set up to help the elderly cope with the snow and ice was shut down because workers could not get to the office.

Deep snow in Lanarkshire, Scotland, leftAlec Allison using a tractor to clear itfrom the roads of his farm.But that didn't help his sheep. At one point, he used a long stick to search snowdrifts where he found and freed one of his sheep.
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Norway is facing its lowest temperatures in more than two decades. The mercury dropped Friday to -42C (-44F) at Roros airport, in central Norway - the coldest temperature measured in mainland Norway since 1987.

TheTandD.com | Cold weather bringing an early end to S.C. shrimping

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Plummeting water temperatures are causing South Carolina officials to call an early end to the fall shrimping season.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reports Friday the fall season of commercial shrimping will end Monday night, nearly two weeks early.
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In the winter of 2000-2001, prolonged water temperatures of about 46 degrees killed roughly 98 percent of the shrimp population, which took two seasons to recover.

It’s Freezing: Must Be Global Warming by Mona Charen on National Review Online

For more than a decade now, the climate avengers have seized upon every warm summer, forest fire, hurricane, and tornado to grind their axe.

The American Spectator : Leftist Intelligentsia Dementia

The Copenhagen Climate summit demonstrated once again the leftist intelligentsia's visceral anti-capitalism. First from global cooling then to global warming and now to climate change, like elitist bloodhounds they follow the trail relentlessly through tangled inconsistencies in hope of catching their prey. And the scent remains strong: the capitalist system.

Copenhagen: U.N. Sponsored a Sad Waste of Energy, Passion, and Money | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Remember, the American taxpayer is on the hook for almost 20 percent of this idiocy.