Climate experts tell us that Alaska is the fastest heating place on Earth, and is the global warming canary in the coal mine.
Temperatures in Alaska have dropped more than two degrees this century, and they had normal or above normal sea ice every day in 2012.
Progressives are on the war path rewriting US history, because the real history doesn’t serve their political objectives.
The closest GHCN HCN station to Chicago is at Aurora. Their warmest year was 1931.
More daily record maximums were set in Aurora during 1897 and 1934, than in 2012.
BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — China was still suffering from coal shortage because of the lingering cold weather and electricity rationing continued in five provinces and municipalities, including the country’s major coal producer Shanxi Province.
As of Sunday, coal reserves in 598 major power plants were decreasing and could sustain for nine days. Coal storages in 205 power plants could not run for seven days, a national alarming level, according to the National Power Dispatch and Communication Center.
The situation worsened in 11 percent of the power plants, which would shut production at any time as coal reserves could not support for three days of power generation.
On Sunday, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Chongqing continued electricity rationing because of power shortage.
Because of a cold snap, temperature in parts of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northern China and northeastern China was expected to fall by six to eight degrees Celsius between Monday and Tuesday, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
Coal shortage, electricity rationing continue in China as cold weather lingers_
HAMweather Climate Center – Record Events for The Past Week – Continental US View
The US is of course only 2% of the Earth’s surface, but last winter it determined the world’s climate.
Bloomberg tells us that global warming has destroyed New York. They also report that China is freezing.
A cold front brought temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) to northern China, as officials urged cities to conserve heating and two tourists died after they were stranded on a mountain, the China Daily newspaper reported. The cold may continue with the temperature in Beijing plunging to minus 11 degrees Celsius today, the China Meteorological Administration said on its website.
Rebar Declines as Cold Weather Cuts China’s Construction Demand – Bloomberg
You know that global warming is hitting hard, when New Mexico wakes up to -33C temperatures.
At a Brady Center event, its Legal Action Project Director asked retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens whether having a right to a cell phone might be a more universal form of self-defense than gun ownership.
“Maybe you have some kind of constitutional right to have a cell phone with a pre-dialed 911 number at your bedside, and that might provide you with a little better protection than a gun, which you’re not used to using,” Justice Stevens mumbled.
Chicago has the highest murder rate in the country. Guns are illegal, but everyone in the inner city has an Obamaphone. When seconds matter, police are just twenty minutes away.
h/t to Dave G
“I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control,”
Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.
• Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.”
Last week, peaceful lefties were calling for climate skeptics to be murdered.
FBI checks for all of 2012 totaled 19.6 million, an annual record and an increase of 19 percent over 2011.
Return Of The Jedi
Putnam vows to withhold pistol permits information
“The asinine editors at the Journal News have gone out of their way to place a virtual scarlet letter on law abiding firearm owners throughout the region and I thank God that Putnam County has a clerk with the guts to stand up and draw the line here in Putnam County. This is clearly a violation of privacy, and needs to be corrected immediately. The same elitist eggheads who use their editorial page to coddle terrorists and criminals are now treating law-abiding citizens like level-three sexual predators. Every person with common sense should be offended …”
Putnam vows to withhold pistol permits information | The Journal News | LoHud.com | lohud.com
Nice to see some principled people standing up to the left wing scumbags who are taking over the US.
h/t to Blade
You know global warming is hitting hard when Texas and Mexico are getting blasted with heavy snow.
