USGS Release: Ice Shelves Disappearing on Antarctic Peninsula (2/22/2010 11:04:51 AM)

The ice shelves are attached to the continent and already floating, holding in place the Antarctic ice sheet that covers about 98 percent of the Antarctic continent.

WaPo + “Climate Insurance” Translated | GlobalWarming.org

Today’s Washington Post editorial on global warming (”Climate Insurance”) is especially ridiculous.  You can certainly read it for yourself, but I’m going to do you the favor of translating it into plain English here for you now.  I’ve put a few bits of the editorial’s language in italics for you.

Al Gore--environmental saboteur? | Washington Examiner

In his own mind, I suspect, he sees himself as a world leader of more long-term consequence than George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the men who have won the political prize he sought in 1988 and 2000.

Mead makes a strong case that Gore’s global warming alarmism and his advocacy of a carbon emissions limitations treaty has been vain self-indulgence. In his view, a man who depicts himself as the savior of the planet has been a colossal failure who has sabotaged the cause he championed. It’s a harsh indictment, and it has the ring of truth. I’ll end by quoting one of the comments on Mead’s blogpost:

"Told this way, the story brings to mind a magnificent ‘Larson’ cartoon that describes a similar debacle. An overweight child is poised at the top of a slide, preparing to descend. Meanwhile, two spiders have spun a fragile web across the bottom of the slide. One spider is saying to the other one 'if we pull this off we’ll be eating like kings!' The greens have just re-enacted this whole scenario. It was never in Al Gore’s financial interest to point this out."

The dangers of 'cap-and-impoverish' | Jacksonville.com

Florida's Democratic Party is starting to take Marco Rubio, once a long-shot candidate in the U.S. Senate race, seriously.

After months of inundating the media with e-mails critical of Crist, the other Republican in the race, it took aim at Rubio last week - making fun of him for having the audacity to say, with much of the nation digging out from deep piles of snow, that he had doubts about the global-warming theory.

Corn, Soybeans Gain as Rain May Damage Brazil, Argentina Crops - BusinessWeek

“Uncommonly deep” snow in North America is raising concern about floods once melting starts, according to Gartman. “It is not spring rains that bring floods, it is the snow melt, and the snow has been deep and constant,” he said.

Ambulances getting stuck in deep snow - The Local

Sweden's ambulances have not escaped the problems brought by heavy snow, and the switch from four-wheel-drive Volvo's to rear-wheel drive Mercedes vehicles is now under review in Borås in western Sweden, according to a Sveriges Television (SVT) report. Similar problems were also reported earlier this month by health authorities in Västernorrland in northern Sweden.

Hundreds of rabbits hit as roof caves in - The Local

A roof collapsed on Sweden's largest rabbit show in the early hours of Saturday morning leaving more than a thousand furry animals trapped inside the building.

Snow strains buildings to breaking point - The Local

Heavy snowfall in southern and central parts of Sweden has caused several roofs to cave in, while rail authorities have called a halt to a number of train services amid continuing extreme weather conditions.

An elderly man was killed on Friday when a machine storage shed gave way on a farm in Håcksvik, 50 kilometres south of Borås in western Sweden. The walls and roof of the structure are believed to have yielded at 5.30pm to the weight of the snow that fell in large quantities over the course of the day.

In Vänersborg, disaster struck at 3.30am on Saturday as the roof on the western town's brand new stadium caved in. Local sports authorities said the roof had been cleared of all snow over the course of Friday.

Snowfalls cause widespread travel chaos - The Local

[Sweden] Large scale disruption in metro services has been forecast and temperatures as low as -25 Celsius have called a halt to train services from the capital to Gothenburg.