Monday, December 20, 2010

Extreme winter storms causing chaos around the world (MSNBC Video Report) - National People in the News | Examiner.com
The Associated Press reported that experts are saying the extreme winter weather may be related to climate change due to global warming.
Eurostar passengers queue for seven hours in -3C conditions as trains are cancelled | Mail Online
Police were forced to turn away some passengers after the freezing weather conditions ruined journeys at London’s St Pancras station as speed restrictions and cancellations affected the service.

About 6,000 travellers endured freezing temperatures as queues snaked through the main terminal and out into the street stretching to an estimated length of 1.2 miles.
Christmas the deadliest day of the year: study | Posted | National Post
After analyzing all official United States death certificates over the 25-year period between 1979 and 2004, a trio of sociologists identified an excess of 42,325 natural deaths — that is, above and beyond the normal seasonal winter increase — in the two weeks starting with Christmas.
Northeast States Raiding RGGI Money to Stay Afloat
"It reveals the fact that cap-and-trade is just a new tax," says Steve Lonegan, the New Jersey director of an energy-industry financed group called Americans for Prosperity.

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