But We're Gonna Keep Calling It Global Warming -- Not a Bakken Story

A monster winter storm bigger than some Midwest cities have seen in years slogged toward the nation's midsection Monday (January 31, 2011) as the region geared up its defenses...... when it hits the northeast, this will be the third huge snowstorm this year to hit DC, New York, and Boston.

The white Christmas in the South was one for the record books. Columbia, South Carolina,  had its first significant Christmas snow since weather records were first kept in 1887. Atlanta, Georgia, had just over an inch of snow—the first measurable accumulation on Christmas Day since the 1880s. 

Snow in Phoenix. All we need now is an Al Gore sighting.

NOAA: Coldest December "EVER" in Florida.

Global warming destroys Florida strawberries.

I'm not going to re-print or re-link all the stories about the devastating cold and snowstorms in Europe -- that occurred during the autumn, before the first day of winter -- and the snowstorms that are now hitting the East Coast, just a couple days into winter. 

UK (Great Britain): coldest winter in 1,000 years.

Berlin, Germany: most snow in 110 years!

South China hit hard by freezing weather.

It's not surprising that the NY Times continues to fall for this scam; global warming is causing the cold weather. I would love to hear the explanation for the global warming that occurred in 1000 A.D., the time of the Vikings.

About 900 AD until about 1350 AD there was a warming trend that caused the seas to rapidly rise displacing people; including the Vikings who then invaded England. The Norse records indicate that They were able to grow vineyards in Iceland, Labrador, Newfoundland. For hundreds of years the world temps were much warmer than today. As suddenly as the world had warmed, in 10 years it cooled off again sending Earth into a mini ice age with the 1700's the coldest in 1000 years. it even snowed in New England in June 1814! All of a sudden about 1880, the climate suddenly started getting much warmer and has been increasing in the last century. The world has warmed almost 2 degrees since the 19th century. The world would have to warm up ANOTHER 12 degrees to reach the temps of the 6th to the 13th centuries.

An occasional glimmer of common sense, however, exists. Thank goodness for the internet. Without it, we would only hear ABC, CBS, and NBC's version.

And this is pretty incredible: even sea creatures affected by the frigid cold, December 27, 2010.

Old news, but still a hoot:Al Gore Sued by 30.000 Scientists