The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
– Bitter cold snap grips China (UPI, Dec 22, 2012):
BEIJING — Temperatures in Beijing are predicted to drop into the single digits during weekend — the coldest it’s been in almost 30 years, forecasters said.
Most of China will see temperatures drop between 3 and 4.5 Fahrenheit degrees over the weekend, but northern areas will see temperatures drop as much as 9 degrees, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
– New paper confirms the climate was warmer 1000 years ago (Whats Up With That, Oct 17, 2012)
– Sun may soon have four poles, say researchers (Asahi Shimbun, April 20, 2012):
The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth, according to Japanese researchers.
Officials of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation said on April 19 that the activity of sunspots appeared to resemble a 70-year period in the 17th century in which London’s Thames froze over and cherry blossoms bloomed later than usual in Kyoto.
In that era, known as the Maunder Minimum, temperatures are estimated to have been about 2.5 degrees lower than in the second half of the 20th century.
The Japanese study found that the trend of current sunspot activity is similar to records from that period.
The researchers also found signs of unusual magnetic changes in the sun. Normally, the sun’s magnetic field flips about once every 11 years. In 2001, the sun’s magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere, flipped to the south.
Read moreStudy: Sun May Soon Have Four Poles … Sunspot Activity Appears To Resemble Maunder Minimum
From the article:
“It’s based on the fact that the weather and climate are controlled by activity from the Sun, and its modulation by the orbit of the Moon,” he says. “It’s a solar-magnetic-lunar system.”
– The weatherman caught in a media storm (Independent, April 21, 2012):
Rogue forecaster brands Met Office ‘lying scum’ after spat over his latest apocalyptic warning
It’s surely one of the more sensational weather forecasts of the last few years – the prediction that next month will be the coldest May in Britain for a century.
Read moreMeteorologist Piers Corbyn Brands Met Office ‘Lying Scum’
– NASA Satellite Finds Earth’s Clouds are Getting Lower (NASA, February 21, 2012):
Earth’s clouds got a little lower by around one per cent a year on average during the first decade of this century.
That’s the finding by a new NASA-funded university study based on satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate.
Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analysed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2000 to February 2010) from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft.
Read moreThe Earth Is Cooling, Cloud Level Has Fallen By 1% A Year Over Last Decade
– Unusual Cold Threatens Russian Fruit Crop (Radio Free Europe/radioLiberty):
Russian agricultural officials say the abnormally cold temperatures are certain to have an adverse effect on this year’s harvest.
– Woman Dies Near Skopje Amid Record Cold (Balkan Insight, Feb.15, 2012):
A woman was found dead at her home near Skopje on Wednesday morning, as temperatures in the capital dropped to a record low of minus 22 degrees Celsius.
The body of Radmila Stojcevska, 52, was found frozen at her house in the village of Mrshevci. According to initial police reports, the sickly and bed-bound woman died after being without firewood overnight.
Her death added to a political row over the real number of cold-related deaths in the country.
Read moreRecord Cold Temperatures In Macedonia – People Are Freezing To Death
– Snow depth reach 6 meters in eastern Turkey / PHOTO (worldbulletin.net)
– Snow depth reach 6 meters in eastern Turkey (Arabs Today, Feb. 12 2012):
As many parts of Turkey hit by cold weather and snowfall, snow depth reached 6 meters in eastern Turkish city of Bitlis.
Bitlis where have been taking non- stop snowfall since one week, layer of snow reached tremendous dimensions.
According to Turkish meteorological authorities snow drift reached 640 cm across the Bitlis. Daily life nearly stops in beautiful eastern Turkish city. City also get most snowfall among Turkey’s other cities.
Meanwhile, hundreds of village’s road totally closed of excessive snowfall which put many people in hard condition. Bitlis municipality took extra measure to struggle incredibly high snow drift.
Snow paralyzed life in many provinces across Turkey and led to the closure of many schools and roads last week.
Comentary:
Scientists try to explain global cooling …
Since 1998 the earth is cooling:
– What happened to global warming? The warmest year recorded globally was 1998 (BBC News, Oct. 9, 2009):
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
… with their brilliant theory of global warming.
For me this is like US government trying to get out of debt by creating record amounts of it.
‘Rises in C02 lag 800 years behind temperature rises. So temperature is leading CO2 by 800 years!’
– Prof. Ian Clark
… and so CO2 cannot possibly cause global warming or global cooling:
It is the sun’s activity that causes the earth to warm or to cool down.
We also have a NORTH POLE that is moving. And this IS causing (logically) changes in climate:
– Earth’s Magnetic Pole Shift? The Shift is About to Hit the Fan!
– Earth’s North Magnetic Pole is Racing Toward Russia at Almost 64 Kilometers a Year Due to Core Flux
But who needs logic, when we have SCIENCE?
The elitists know what is really going on:
– Global Cooling and the New World Order (Telegraph):
“The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.”
Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling.
– In the Andes, Extreme Cold Extracts Bitter Toll (Scientific American, Feb. 13, 2012):
Climate change may also be to blame for three bitter winters that have left more than 400 dead
EL HIGUERON, Peru – Carlos Cruz Chanta lives just off a rutted dirt road, almost lost in the mist, outside this village on a steep ridge of jungle-covered mountains. Like his neighbors, he makes his living raising livestock and growing corn, fruit, beans, and coffee.
But the bean harvests have failed recently, and cattle have come down with strange illnesses. Ice has ruined the oranges and avocados. Most worryingly, the cold has taken its toll on his children.
“The children get pneumonia,” said Chanta. “This cold is so much for our children.”
Over the past three years, bitter cold spells and frosts have made life in El Higueron – and throughout most of the Peruvian Andes – increasingly difficult. As paradoxical as it seems, scientists suspect global warming is to blame.
In 2008 and 2009, frigid temperatures descended on Peru in March and April, almost three months before the start of the Southern Hemisphere winter. The unseasonable cold not only killed livestock but contributed to the deaths of almost 250 children across the country, according to news reports at the time.
The winter of 2010 proved even worse. After temperatures plunged to 46-year lows, the government declared a state of emergency in 16 of the county’s 24 regions. In some areas, temperatures reached 24 degrees Celsius below zero, or 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. More than 400 people died, most of them children.
Read moreAND NOW … Peru, Andes: Extreme Cold Killing Hundreds Blamed On … GLOBAL WARMING!
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– Bad weather: Coldiretti, code red for agriculture in Tuscany (Libero, Feb. 9, 2012):
Florence, February 9 – (Adnkronos) – blizzard comes and farmers tremble. Sale in Tuscany concern for agricultural production already ‘put to the test by a week of freezing temperatures. The worsening weather conditions expected over the weekend and announced the arrival of the dreaded snow storm and icy Baltic carry the warning level on the code red.
” We are very worried – admits Tulio Marcelli, Regional Chair Coldiretti Tuscany – Snow and ‘definitely a problem, but the cold may’ be a very dangerous factor for agricultural production. In general, for many crops on our land as olive trees and vines from frost damage to equipment and will be visible and measurable only at the vegetative growth, therefore, to date, and ‘difficult to make an analysis of some of the entity’ of the damage. The sudden drop in temperature, for a period so ‘long, can’ do much harm.”
Meanwhile Coldiretti Tuscany (info at www.toscana.coldiretti.it) certifies already ‘some situations scattered’ throughout the region of strong critical ‘where the production of seasonal vegetables grown in open fields (see sprouts, cabbage, artichokes and in general, leafy vegetables like lettuce, radicchio, endive, borage, spinach, chicory) and ‘lost with rates of up to 50%, the cold has also affected the product already’ harvest and during storage.
Read more‘Code Red For Agriculture In Tuscany’ (Libero): Loss Rates Of Up To 50 Percent!
– Death toll rises as big cold freezes Europe (DPA/Sydney Morning Herald – ?Feb 11, 2012?):
Freezing temperatures left thousands of people stranded without power in the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe on Saturday, as the death toll from one of the coldest winters in years continued to rise.
In Montenegro, the government declared a state of emergency 24 hours into a blizzard that dumped another two metres of snow across the country and cut off access to northern regions. The death toll was expected to rise from three when rescuers reach isolated areas.
In Serbia, the authorities reported three new deaths, raising the overall death toll for the country to 19. An estimated 50,000 people remain isolated in remote villages. The energy situation has become critical, prompting the government to extend a two-day holiday next week to five days, keeping schools closed and cut the power supply to non-essential factories.
In Croatia, an average of 50 centimetres of snow were expected to fall during the weekend, while powerful winds blowing from the sea forced local road authorities to close some sections of the Adriatic highway.
Many villages in mountainous regions in Bosnia have been cut off since the start of the cold spell, nearly two weeks ago.
Temperatures dropped to as low as -32C in Poland’s southern Bieszczady Mountains, while eight people died in house fires, police said.
A further eight people died in Romania, the health ministry said, raising the overall death toll to 65. Tens of thousands of people remained isolated in the south, where the army, police and firefighters were trying to clear access routes and distribute food and water.
Heavy snowfall also hit many parts of Italy – especially its central and southern regions – where six recent deaths have been linked to the cold weather. Several remote villages in the central Marche and Umbria regions remained cut off as a result of unusually high snow levels.
In north-eastern Trieste, at least 10 people were injured when winds with speeds of more than 130 km/h lashed the Adriatic port city. The poor weather forced the cancellation of flights and Serie A football matches.
In northern Bulgaria, trains could not make their way through the deep snow, which the wind has blown on the railways, state radio reported.
The Bulgarian section of the Danube was completely frozen on Saturday, the national Agency for Maintenance of the Danube River said. The Bulgarian Maritime Administration has banned all navigation in the Bulgaria section, including ferries to Romania.
– europe snow blocks in tens of thousands (AFP/Pakistan Daily Times – ?Feb 11, 2012?):
* Death toll from Europe’s big freeze rises past 550
BELGRADE: Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe’s big freeze rose past 550.
– January freeze reduces California Navel, mandarin crops (Western Farm Press, Feb. 7, 2012):
Two nights of frigid temperatures in mid January across portions of California’s Fresno and Madera counties nipped the 2011-2012 Navel and mandarin citrus crops by an estimated 10 percent to 25 percent.
The Jan. 16-18 freeze event hit northern Fresno County and Madera County the hardest with as much as a 40 percent to 100 percent crop loss in the coldest locations in those counties.
“We estimate 10 percent of the Navel crop and 15 to 20 percent of the mandarin crop have been affected by the freezing temperatures,” said Bob Blakely, director of grower services with California Citrus Mutual, Exeter, Calif.
Read moreJanuary Freeze Severely Damaged California Navel, Mandarin crops
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– Europe’s Danube freezes over, cold snap toll at 460 (ZEENEWS, Feb. 11, 2012):
Belgrade: Thick ice closed vast swathes of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe’s busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continent rose to at least 460.
As it has every day for nearly two weeks, the brutal cold claimed lives in several countries and killed dozens more in weather-related accidents.
The 2,860-kilometre Danube, which flows through 10 countries and is vital for transport, power, irrigation, industry and fishing, was wholly or partially blocked from Austria to its mouth on the Black Sea.
– Italy struggles under record cold snap (Press TV, Feb 8, 2012):
Italy has been hit by the most intense cold wave of the last 70 years. Freezing temperatures took the death toll across the country to over 40.In some inland Northern areas temperatures have reached minus 25 degrees Celsius while snow keeps falling relentlessly.
Read moreItaly Hit By The Most Intense Cold Wave Of The Last 70 Years
And L’Aquila and Trasacco are damn far south and close to Rome!
– Wolves scavenge as Italians take shelter from biting cold (ABC News/AFP, Feb 8, 2012):
Wolves scavenged in isolated snow-covered villages, the canals in Venice froze over, and the death toll rose to 30 as freezing weather continued across Italy on Tuesday.
Snow kept falling in the north of Italy, with temperatures dropping to minus 25 degrees Celsius in Marcesina on the shores of Lake Garda, and there was black ice in Calabria and Sardegna in the south.
Read moreWolves Scavenge As Italians Warn Of Food Shortages And Take Shelter From Biting Cold
A man attempts to dig his car out of heavy snow in the Bosnia capital, Sarajevo.
– Cold Weather, Snow Paralyze Much Of Europe (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Feb. 05, 2012):
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Bosnian authorities have used helicopters to evacuate sick people and deliver food to thousands who have been cut off by the heaviest snow the country has ever recorded.More than 100 remote Bosnian villages are cut off by more than two meters of snowfall in the mountains.
A state of emergency has been declared in Sarajevo after more than a meter of snow fell on the capital.
Read moreBosnia: Record Snowfall – 100 Villages Cut Off – State Of Emergency Declared In Sarajevo
– Colorado weather forecast: Snow breaks 100-year-old Denver record (Feb. 4, 2012):
DENVER – The storm that passed over Colorado has broken a few records. Locations across the metro area have reported 10 to 20 inches of snow with an additional half-inch of accumulation expected Saturday. According to the National Weather Service in Boulder, Denver broke a single-day snowfall record on Friday with 12.5 inches of snow. The previous record was 9.5 inches on the same day in 1932.
Denver also broke the three-day snowfall record for February with 15.9 inches. The previous record was 14.1 inches in 1912.
Read moreDenver Snow Storm Breaks 100-Year-Old Snowfall Record (Video)
– Deadly freeze moves west across Europe (Al Jazeera, Feb. 5, 2012)
More than 250 people have been killed across Europe as a potentially worsening week-long cold snap shifts west, blanketing large parts of the continent with snow.
Forecasters on Sunday predicted the deep freeze, which has already forced Bosnia to declare a state of emergency and airports to close, will continue.
The death toll included hundreds of homeless people who have frozen to death in what has become the harshest European winter in decades.
Russian gas exporter Gazprom, which supplies fuel to much of Europe, said it would be unable to meet increased European demands and had reduced supplies “for a few days” to ease the crisis in Russia.
Snow fell on Rome’s Colosseum for the first time in three decades, disrupting air and rail travel, and Venice’s famous canals have frozen over.
About 160,000 people in central and southern Italy were without electricity, and power company Enel said 1,000 workers were trying to fix damaged power lines.
Bodies on the streets
In Ukraine, where at least 122 people have died, the most in Europe, 78 bodies have been found on the streets. Night- time temperatures there have dropped to -33C.
Metro stations in the capital, Kiev, have become sanctuaries of warmth for the homeless.
– Travel disruption as snow blankets the UK (Guardian, Feb. 5, 2012):
Heavy snowfall causes transport chaos, with trains delayed, cars abandoned on roads and flights cancelled across Britain
A thick blanket of snow, 16cm deep in places, has settled across parts of the UK, grounding planes, stranding motorists and leaving roads icy and treacherous.
–163 dead as cold snap grips Europe (AFP, Feb. 2, 2012):
WARSAW — A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip Thursday, pushing the death toll to 163 as countries from Ukraine to Italy struggled with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places.
Entire villages were cut off in parts of eastern Europe, trapping thousands, while road, air and rail links were severed and gas consumption shot up during what has been the severest winter in decades in some regions.
In Ukraine, tens of thousands headed to shelters to escape the freeze that emergencies services said has killed 63 people — most of them frozen to death in the streets, some succumbing to the hypothermia later in hospitals.
– Villagers scramble for fuel in Europe’s big chill (AlertNet/Reuters, Feb. 2, 2012):
* Children ride horses to get to school
* Death toll rises to at least 139
* Ferrari cancel Formula One car launch
* Southern cities enjoy snowy spectacle (Adds Azerbaijan, BMW naming weather front, Rome schools close)
FARKASLYUK, Hungary, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Hungarian villagers were scavenging for coal with their bare hands on Thursday as a blast of Siberian air killed scores in Eastern Europe and looked set to keep its icy grip on the continent for another week.
Read moreHungary: Villagers Scramble ‘For Coal With Their Bare Hands’ In Europe’s Big Chill
– Snow to fall in London as bitterly cold weather grips Britain (Telegraph, Feb. 2, 2012):
All of Europe and even Africa is being frozen by a giant 4,000-mile wide mass of freezing air shunted west from Siberia.
Amazingly, the Sahara Desert, which had no snow for 33 years until a brief fall in western Algeria last month, faces an inch of snow by the weekend.
Meteogroup forecaster Stephen Davenport, who said parts of north Africa face six inches of powder, said: “The deep cold is spreading surprisingly far south.
“It will deliver snow to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica and, most remarkably, possible low level snow in north Africa, although it is unlikely to settle.”
– Russian winter goes extreme, claims lives (Pravda, Feb. 1, 2012):
Winter temperatures in Russia have gone extreme. The air in some regions of the republic of Yakutia (Siberia) has cooled down to -50 degrees Centigrade. Anomalous cold of -40 degrees is expected in the Perm region of Russia, Vesti.Ru reports.
In the European part of Russia, the current temperatures are ten degrees below the norm. On Wednesday morning, the temperature in the Moscow region dropped to 26 and even 30 degrees below zero Centigrade.
Cold weather is expected to become even colder this week in Moscow and the region, RIA Novosti reports. Winter cold has already claimed several human lives. One person died of frostbite yesterday in Moscow. Ten others asked for medical help and were hospitalized.
– Britain Shivers In Blast Of Cold Weather (Sky News, Jan. 28, 2012):
?Bitterly cold Arctic air sweeping across Britain is expected to force temperatures down to lows of -5C this weekend, as forecasters warn the chill is set to last until next week.
The warnings of freezing conditions come after weeks of unseasonably mild weather.