Ojmjakon, Russia averaged -36ºF in December. Washington Post says that was hot.
Europe and Russia were much hotter than average.
Can global warming be real if it’s cold in the U.S.? Um… yes!
They also said that satellite data showed December as 2nd hottest on record
Early data suggests that December 2013 was tied for the 2nd-hottest December on record since 1979, the beginning of satellite measurements
RSS was 11th warmest since 1979 (close to the median) and UAH was seventh warmest.
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Climate experts say that global warming makes it cold. On January 7, 1912 – Illinois minimum temperatures averaged -28ºF.
Must have been a lot of global warming that month.
Obama sent thousands of Americans to die in Afghanistan, in what he called “the right war” – which he never believed could be won.
In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
Leveling one of the more serious charges that a defense secretary could make against a commander in chief sending forces into combat, Gates asserts that Obama had more than doubts about the course he had charted in Afghanistan. The president was “skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”
In Much of U.S., Extreme Cold is Becoming More Rare | Climate Central
As usual, they started their graph in the 1970’s, which had the coldest winters of the 20th century in the US. Had they started during almost any other decade, they would have seen an increase in very cold weather over time.
1974 was the year Nixon resigned. Will history repeat itself 40 years later?
It turns out that scientists actually don’t have any idea what causes climate change.
In 1999, scientists were using the polar vortex as a way to raise money for Arctic ozone hole research.
