How Cold is it?
COLD
New record low of 18 this morning which is also tied for the second coldest ever for a February Tucson morning. There's a chance we tied the all-time record February low of 17. We won't find out for sure for a few hours. If we didn't reach it, no worries. We have an even better chance tomorrow morning!
This could be the coldest February chill in Tucson's history. I go through all of that plus take a look at the cold, snow and freezing rain forecast for Texas in this morning's "Coffee and a Forecast"
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Here is a comprehensive look at the cold start originally posted on my TucsonWeather.us site.
Snowman Mike Talks Texas and Moscow Snow
Snowman Mike on England's COLD Winter
Snowman Mike Announces New Web Site
Senate Energy Tax Worse than House Version. Sign the Petition.
Just say no to higher energy prices. Especially when you consider the Earth is getting cooler, not warmer. The computer models that some scientists and the U.N. are using to predict a global catastrophe are fatally flawed. Even as CO2 continues to rise (not nearly at the rate the global warming models predicted) temperatures have been FALLING for the past almost 8 years. A tax on energy would cause all products and services to be more expensive. Electricity bills would necessarily skyrocket, the President tells us. Sign the petition and do whatever else you can to stop this job killing bill. Here’s the link to American Solutions, or you can just sign it here:
Climate Change Seen as Threat to National Securty?
Give me a break, New York Times, or better yet, give me a break Congress:
The Department of Defense’s assessment of the security issue came about after prodding by Congress to include climate issues in its strategic plans
How about the $700-billion a year the United States exports to nations that sell us oil?
Think about that. What this article is saying is that the current administration is more concerned about warming predicted by a computer model that hasn’t gotten it right yet, then it is about our dependence on foreign oil. One only needs to look at bankrupt California to see the results of promoting green energy while NOT allowing drilling for natural resources.
“But what about the climate Mike?,” you might ask. Thanx for asking. Official measurements of the atmosphere by NASA show no warming since 1997 even as CO2 concentrations have risen. During the 80′s and 90′s, ice caps on Mars shrank! My opinion (and that of many solar scientists and many scientists in general) is that any warming, and cooling, we’ve seen in the past was driven by the Sun.
Climate Change isn’t a threat to national security. Rather, it’s these backward policies that are putting the country in danger.
Meanwhile, fewer and fewer American’s think global warming is a problem.
Global Warming Stopped!!!
Used with permission from Lynn Kadwell, Copyright Lynn Kadwell
This was taken in the midst of the biggest snow in 40 years in Western Oregon. I thought it might be fun to come up with some fun captions:
“Global Warming Defeated by Oregon Resident!”
“Global Warming is a Snow Job”
“Sign of the Times”
The President Doesn’t Believe Global Warming!
The President of Czechoslovakia that is. In a Brietbart.com story, Czech President Vaclav Klaus attacked Al Gore for not considering differing views:
Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: “I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.
By the way, Davos is reporting good ski conditions.
Why Views on Climate Matter
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With temperatures cooling and not rising you’d think that the debate on Global Warming, or Climate Change as the kids are calling it these days, would be more of a debate. Instead, most of the liberal politicians are ignoring the facts and acting to prevent more warming when much of the globe is freezing!
A great example comes to us from the U.K. Seems some British politicians are hoping to ban plasma TVs because they use too much energy! Read it for yourself from the Independent.
Energy-guzzling flatscreen plasma televisions will soon be banned as part of the battle against climate change, ministers have told The Independent on Sunday.
“Minimum energy performance standards” for televisions are expected to be agreed across Europe this spring, they say, and this should lead to “phasing out the most inefficient TVs”. At the same time, a compulsory labelling system will be drawn up to identify the best and worst devices.
How do Brits feel about this? The story doesn’t say.
Could you imagine if this was tried in the United States? I know a few Texans who might say, “They’ll have to pry the remote from my cold, frozen, global cooled fingers!”
This in the face of the coldest Winter in a decade. Glaciers grew last year in Alaska. Snow is falling in the south of France and Madrid, Spain! The Sun is quiet and Solar Scientists say colder decades are ahead. We should be drilling for more oil and natural gas and burning it to produce electricity and to stay warm! Not banning plasma TVs.
It really does matter your view of global warming. If you believe man is causing it then you have to control peoples behavior to combat it. If it’s natural and we are entering a very cold spell then it’s time to prepare by mining, and using, more fossil fuels!
It’s a debate we better have. Otherwise we could waste a lot of time, money, resources, and even lives.
Snow Job
Man caused Global Warming is losing support. Maybe because of the actual weather across the globe. This Winter is turning out to be another unusually cold and snowy one. Not just in Alaska as I noted a couple of days ago. How about this from Breitbart. Madrid, Spain was paralyzed by a rare snow storm and cold temperatures! The same story talks about the extreme cold in Germany.
In Germany, the death toll from the cold snap rose to three and several rivers were frozen over, blocking ship traffic, authorities said.
Drift ice covered 80 to 90 percent of the surface of the river Elbe from Doemnitz to the Germany’s main port of Hamburg in the north, a spokeswoman for the Water and Shipping Office said.
Meanwhile, Russia has decided to shut off the natural gas to parts of eastern Europe.
As temperatures plummeted throughout the continent, around a dozen European nations were suffering the effects of Russia’s decision to turn off the natural gas supplies transiting through Ukraine to Europe.
Bulgaria received no Russian gas for the fourth day in a row as temperatures plunged to minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and heavy snow covered most of the country.
Meanwhile the extreme cold in Alaska and Canada is set to move into the U.S. next week. If you live east of the Rockies, get ready for VERY cold air. New York City could be below zero for only the second time since the 1940s!
