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The top ten coldest UK Christmases include the years 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010

Top ten: Coldest Christmas days « Met Office News Blog

When Obama starts talking patriotism, you know that the US is in big trouble.

“I’ve served with Chuck Hagel, I know him. He’s a patriot, he’s somebody that’s done extraordinary work both in the United States Senate — he’s served this country with valor in Vietnam — and somebody who’s currently serving on my intelligence advisory board and doing an outstanding job,” Obama said of Hagel during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Reports: Obama Expected to Nominate Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary Next Week | TheBlaze.com

Physics is implacable. It takes the carbon dioxide we produce and translates it into heat, which causes ice to melt and oceans to rise and storms to gather. And unlike other problems, the less you do, the worse it gets.

Climate change won’t wait – latimes.com

Bill can see this melting happening right out his window in Vermont.

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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.