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The New York Times says that it is too warm for hockey in the Arctic, but the golfing conditions are perfect.

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BEIJING – Temperatures recorded since the end of November 2012 have marked the lowest temps to hit China in 28 years, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said Saturday.

Temps have averaged minus 3.8 degrees Celsius since the last 10 days of November, about 1.3 degrees lower than the previous recorded average.

Temperatures in northeast China hit a 43-year low and stood at minus 15.3 degrees Celsius, about 3.7 degrees below the previous recorded average.

North China experienced its coldest winter in 42 years, with temperatures hitting minus 7.4 degrees Celsius, 2.4 degrees lower than the average level in previous years.

China sees coldest weather in 28 years|Society|chinadaily.com.cn

UK wrecked by drought in 2012

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter | Environment | The Observer

UK wrecked by lack of drought in 2012

2012: the year Britain’s weather turned dangerous | Environment | The Guardian

Perhaps 1607 was the year when Britain turned dangerous?

On 30 January 1607 the Bristol Channel floods resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, with houses and villages swept away, an estimated 200 square miles (518 km2) of farmland inundated and livestock destroyed,wrecking the local economy along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, in what was then the Kingdom of England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607

h/t to Tom Nelson and Marc Morano

The press corpse wants you to believe that scary looking NRA members who drive pickup trucks and Harleys and attend gun shows are going to come hurt you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You can’t make this stuff up

Rinks in Canada’s Arctic Turn to Cooling Systems

By JEFF Z. KLEIN Published: January 4, 2013

Winter has come to the vast, northernmost reaches of Canada, the sparsely populated area surrounding the Arctic Circle historically characterized by severely cold weather. But these days refrigeration systems are needed to keep the ice cold at hockey arenas.

It has been too warm for December hockey in the Arctic, the latest sign that climate change is altering the environment and the way people live — especially in the far north, where the effects of rising temperatures are most pronounced.

More Rinks in Far North Find Need for Cooling Systems – NYTimes.com

Fairbanks, Alaska averaged  -27C in December, and the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet averaged -40. You can play hockey in Southern New Mexico, but the New York Times tells us that it is too warm to play hockey in the Arctic.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

08 Jan 1906 – AT MILDURA. ANOTHER SCORCHING DAY. SHADE READING…

This was thirteen degrees warmer than the “record heatwave” forecast of 2012

Weather Forecast Mildura, Victoria | Mildura Weather | Wunderground

h/t to Ivan

Temperatures have been running far below normal this winter in most of the US, and are forecast to get much colder in about a week.

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The forecast is another 10 degree drop in temperature – towards historic lows.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Last winter we were told that mild US temperatures were “extreme” and proof of global warming.

A sure sign of global warming is when 80% of New Mexico is covered with snow.

National Snow Analyses – NOHRSC – The ultimate source for snow information

Overheated air from the rapidly melting Arctic travels south, and causes snow to fall in the tropics in Mexico. For lefties on crack, the logic is simple.

In the Obama world, America haters are more equal than loyal Americans

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) inquiry into whether NBC’s David Gregory possession on national TV of an illegal 30-round “high-capacity” magazine has been ongoing for three weeks. Meanwhile, U.S. Army veteran James Brinkley is still grappling with the fallout from his arrest last year on the same charge.

Mr. Brinkley’s story is just one example of at least 105 individuals who, unlike Mr. Gregory, were arrested in 2012 for having a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds.

On Sept. 8, Mr. Brinkley says he intended to drop his wife and young children at the White House for a tour and then head to a shooting range to practice for the U.S. Marshals Service test. Just like Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley called MPD in advance for guidance on how he could do this legally. Mr. Brinkley was told that the gun had to be unloaded and locked in the trunk, and he couldn’t park the car and walk around.

Unlike Mr. Gregory, Mr. Brinkley followed the police orders by placing his Glock 22 in a box with a big padlock in the trunk of his Dodge Charger. The two ordinary, 15-round magazines were not in the gun, and he did not have any ammunition with him.

As he was dropping off his family at 11 a.m. on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue, Mr. Brinkley stopped to ask a Secret Service officer whether his wife could take the baby’s car seat into the White House. The officer saw Mr. Brinkley had an empty holster, which kicked off a traffic stop that ended in a search of the Charger’s trunk. Mr. Brinkley was booked on two counts of “high capacity” magazine possession (these are ordinary magazines nearly everywhere else in the country) and one count of possessing an unregistered gun.

Despite the evidence Mr. Brinkley had been legally transporting the gun, his attorney Richard Gardiner said the D.C. Office of the Attorney General “wouldn’t drop it.” This is the same office now showing apparent reluctance to charge Mr. Gregory.

Mr. Brinkley refused to take a plea bargain and admit guilt, so the matter went to trial Dec. 4. The judge sided with Mr. Brinkley, saying he had met the burden of proof that he was legally transporting. Mr. Brinkley was found not guilty on all firearms-related charges, including for the “high-capacity” magazines, and he was left with a $50 traffic ticket.

MILLER: If you’re not David Gregory … – Washington Times

h/t to Dave G

• Step one – ban gun sales and demand registration of existing legal guns. They will call this reasonable and prudent.
• Step two – later note that gun crime has increased since implementation of step one, and say that Americans simply can’t be trusted with guns
• Step three – get one more radical leftie on the Supreme Court
• Step four – ban and attempt to confiscate all guns owned by their political opposition

This is essentially the same strategy as was effectively used by their kindred souls in Russia and Germany during the early part of the last century.

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