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Piers Corbyn, of the long range forecaster, Weather Action, predicted more cold winters and cool summers. “In the winter reservoir levels will be low but they will probably pick up in the summer because we will have more rain. There will be regional differences because it will depend on where the high pressure might be.”

Mr Corbyn said the conditions had “nothing to do with global warming”, and he added: “The world is now cooling.”

He said: “It is changes in the position of the jet stream caused by changes in solar activity and lunar modulation.

“It is low solar activity but there are very specific lunar modulations which cause the jet stream to get stuck in certain ways, one of which is to give cold northerly blasts in the winter.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Never mind that it is dark and minus 30 degrees…….

http://www.reuters.com/

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/27/kaku.snowstorms.global.warming/

ALLAHABAD: Sanjeev Upadhaya arrived in the city on Thursday from Hyderabad. Expecting a chilly weather, Sanjeev’s luggage was stacked with woollen clothes. However, much to his surprise, the Hyderabad native found the weather here quite warm and rued carrying so many woollen clothes.

The sudden rise in temperatures has baffled many. Just a fortnight ago, the north India was reeling under severe cold wave, with temperatures hovering between 0 and three degrees. And now, the day temperature is touching 30 degrees Celsius. This, when January is not yet over.

The unusual rise in the mercury indicates towards a changing global phenomenon — shirking winters and expanding summers.

Climate expert Prof S S Ojha says it’s a global phenomenon which has vast implications. “The global temperature is rising at the rate of 0.2 degree Celsius every year resulting into melting of ice at an average rate of 0.18 meter. If this is not checked, the sea level, within the next 100 years, would rise to 0.59 meter. As a result, many low lying island countries may perish,” says Ojha.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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All enlightened people know now that cold is a sign of heat.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201101270014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

h/t to Erik

It may be cold, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t hot.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/

Great cycling, the meetings are fun, the people are interesting. My role is pointing out the common ground – we all want a clean environment, less traffic, lower fuel costs and energy security. It is a question of how do you get there.

Do you scare the kids into madness and apathy, or do you motivate them with the promise of a bright future? I’m going to repeat that theme every day, until we are “reconciled.”

By Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr

The days are gone when climate researchers sat in  their ivory towers packed to the rafters with supercomputers. Nowadays their field has become the stuff of thrillers, and they themselves have risen to take on the leading roles. The topic is so hotly contested, the prognoses so spectacular, that they are no longer merely the subject of  media reports; now the specialists in staged apocalypse have moved in. Last year Roland Emmerich depicted a climatic collapse provoked by humankind in his film “The Day After Tomorrow.” Since last week the belletristic counterpart has been available in German bookstores: the novel “State of Fear,” by the best-selling author Michael Crichton. The thriller is about the violent conflict between sober environmental realists and radical environmental idealists. For the idealists, the organized fear of abrupt climate change serves as a handy weapon. They interpret every somehow unusual weather event as proof of anthropogenic global warming. “You have to structure your information so that it’s always confirmed, no matter what kind of weather we have,” the P.R. consultant for the environmentalist organization advises. The realists, who protest that the evidence that human activity has increased meteorological extremes is thin, are fighting a losing battle. Their dry scientific arguments are unable to gain any ground against the colorful, horrific visions of the climate idealists.

http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/060619_ushouse_energycommercehvs.pdf