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By Sophie Hardach and Mathilde Gardin, Reuters - Vancouver Sun

PARIS -- An event based around hundreds of fashionistas flying in from all over the world was never going to be a convincing platform for environmental campaigning, but designers in Paris haven't let that stop them.

While British designer Vivienne Westwood regularly rails against global warming, fashion king Karl Lagerfeld trumped her with a rival theory at the Chanel show on Monday: the globe is in fact cooling, and he has an iceberg to prove it.

"Have you felt any warming this winter?" Lagerfeld, with trademark black sunglasses and white ponytail, told reporters after showing his autumn collection, referring to freezing cold weather outside. "Maybe that's all nonsense, who knows."

Lagerfeld had erected a huge iceberg in the middle of the glass-domed Grand Palais to mark his chilly theme, dressing models in fake fur trousers and yeti boots to prepare them for the coming ice age.

A handout photo released by the Swedish Coast Guard shows a large cargo ship stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

STOCKHOLM, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Maritime Administration said on Thursday that about 50 vessels are stuck in the thick ice in the Baltic sea off Sweden's east coast.

Among the vessels, there are six large passenger ferries which are in total carrying more than 2,000 passengers, the administration said in a statement.

Two of the ferries, including the large Isabella passenger ferry carrying 1,322 passengers and crew, have been freed.

Four other vessels, including the Amorella, another passenger ferry with 753 passengers and 190 crew members aboard, are still stuck.

The administration has sent all the ice breakers in the area to free the ferries, but gale-force winds are hampering the effort.

No one is hurt and there are no immediate plans to bring people off the ferries, but helicopters and military hovercraft are on standby in case evacuations become necessary, the administration added.

Sweden has suffered an unusually harsh winter this year, with temperatures across the country almost continuously lying well below freezing since December.

USA Today

Among 21 social and economic issues, global warming ranks last as a top priority to Americans, who view it as increasingly less urgent, according to an annual survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center for People & the Press.

Just 28% of the 1,504 adults surveyed consider "dealing with global warming" a top priority, down from 38% three years ago. "Such a low ranking," Pew reports, "is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents."

"Protecting the environment" fared somewhat better, ranking 16th among issues. Some 44% say it should be a top priority for President Obama and Congress, down from 57% in 2007.

By Alan Caruba, freedomaction.net

"I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the almost pathological lack of sequences in his discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt as to his own conduct, by the immense and growing egotism that came from his office, by his willingness to continue the excoriation of the press and business in order to get votes for himself, by his indifference to what effect the long-continued pursuit of these ends would have upon the civilization in which he was playing a part."




No, this was not a judgment of President Barack Obama, though the description eerily fits him. It was the view of Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor and member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Brain Trust" who often wrote or helped write FDR's major speeches. FDR's policies extended the Great Depression for ten years.

Here are some facts worth considering every time Obama calls for an expansion or intercession of the federal government as an answer to the current financial crisis:

Social Security, a cornerstone of FDR's administration, was established in 1935. After 74 years it is on the brink of insolvency because Congress gave itself access to its funds.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 to facilitate home ownership. It has been around for 71 years. Congress has had to seize control of it and of Freddie Mac, established in 1970. Together, they presently own or guarantee about half of the United States' $12 trillion mortgage market.

The War on Poverty started in 1964. One trillion dollars has been transferred to "the poor" and it has not worked.

The Department of Energy was established in 1977 to lessen dependence on the import of foreign oil. With 16,000 employees and an annual budget of $24 billion, the United States has imported more oil with every passing year while denying U.S. oil companies access to vast national reserves in ANWR and off our continental shelf. It is an abysmal failure.

Their predictions - based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans - challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 - and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.

The scientists' predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.

I think it is funny that an endangered species is being kept alive from the unusual cold by the very thing that is supposed to be warming the globe. Maybe if this power plant hadn't gone offline the globe would have stayed warm enough to... my brain hurts.

By Carlos Barria, Reuters

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla., Jan 7 (Reuters) - An offline Florida power plant is providing a warm-water refuge for several hundred manatees who like the Sunshine State's human residents are shivering in record low cold temperatures.

Close to 400 of the bulky, wrinkly and endangered sea mammals, including mothers and young, have congregated at an outlet on Florida's Intracoastal Waterway where heated water flows from the Riviera Power Plant operated by the Florida Power and Light Company, a unit of the FPL Group Inc (FPL.N).

The oil- and gas-fired plant was taken off line last year for modernization but FPL has installed a special heating system to keep waters at an attractively balmy temperature for the manatees who have been gathering at the outlet for years.

"The water that discharges into the area where the manatees gather comes out at 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius). It gives a nice combination by the time it mixes with the natural water ... it's very comfortable for them and they enjoy it," FPL spokesperson Sharon Bennett told Reuters.

Viewed from the dock, dozens of manatees, their gray bodies huddled close together, lolled in the warm greenish waters around the power plant outlet. Some lifted their bewhiskered faces out of the water to gaze back at onlookers.

By Tom Leonard in New York, telegraph.co.uk

Record low temperatures in southern Florida have seen frozen iguanas falling out of the trees.

A stunned iguana lies on the floor after having fallen from a tree Photo: AP

The lizards go into a type of hibernation when the temperature drops below around 9 degrees C, all body functions but the heart switching off and blood flow cut to a minimum.

It means they lose their grip on branches and the creatures, which are common in the "sunshine state", plunge out of the trees.

The lizards, which can grow up to five feet long, then lie grey and appear dead until the temperature rises again, at which time they usually revive.

So-called "kamikaze" iguanas are an urban legend among Floridians but have become a common sight as temperatures have dropped almost to freezing.

"It's almost like they totally go to sleep. Generally speaking, if it warms up afterwards, they can recover," said Ron Magill of Miami Metrozoo.

By Elmer Beauregard

My friend called me yesterday and said a water main broke in Bloomington Minnesota because of the cold weather.

That made me wonder if that is happening here in Minnesota where we are prepared for the cold weather, I wonder if other places that aren't used to this cold weather are experiencing bursting water pipes. So I did a Google News search for "Water Main" and got 1,312 results.

This doesn't necessarily mean that there were 1,312 burst water mains but usually the main reason water mains are in the news is if they burst for one reason or another. The Bloomington incident was not one of the results so the number could much larger. I started reading some of the stories and a lot of them are happening in the south in places like Texas and Florida where their water pipes aren't as prepared for the cold.

By Daily Mail Reporter

Snow drifts several metres deep meant an army of rescue workers had to be sent out to free the passengers from their carriages.

Heavy snow and unusually harsh winter weather snarled up transport across India, northern China and South Korea.

Wrong type of snow: Police prepare to shovel away snow that left a train stranded in Shangdu, Inner Mongolia

Getting back on the tracks: Rescue workers dig away underneath the stricken Mongolian train

By Elmer Beauregard

For the third day in a row Minnesota has been the Icebox of the nation with record low temps going down as far as -40ºF.

One of Minnesota's nicknames is "The Blue Peninsula" because usually we are the coldest spot in the nation. On the national temperature maps with different color bands for each 10 degree range, there usually is a blue peninsula that hangs over our frigid state. Recently, however, since weather has become a political issue, the media seems to be hiding how cold it gets in Minnesota. Weather maps now show all temps below 0 as one color band so they can hide the decline.

Frustrated with this development I created this map to the left (as best I could) to show the world what Minnesota low temps have been for the last 3 days. And proudly claim that we are "The Blue Peninsula".

By Elmer Beauregard

Even Before It Was Over The Globe Started To Cool

This might seem a little schizophrenic, seeings how just yesterday I said Copenhagn was a dismal failure, but then I started to see all the stories of all the developed nations getting hit with very unusually cold weather, so it seems it was a huge success. President Obama had to to leave the Conference early because of the blizzard that was hitting the east coast. Both England and even southern France are experiencing very cold weather.

Tony Hake, Examiner.com

As if on cue with former Vice President Al Gore's arrival in Copenhagen, the site of the United Nation's climate summit is expected to receive heavy snowfall and bitter cold temperatures. With a bit of amusement some have pointed to the arrival of the cold weather as an example of the 'Gore Effect'.

In recent years, the term 'Gore Effect' has come to take note of unseasonable weather that seems to accompany the Nobel Laureate or when a significant global warming event is held. Since 2004 these coincidences occur with uncanny frequency. Gore arrived in Copenhagen yesterday and caused a stir in his first public event by claiming that all Arctic sea ice could disappear within five years.

The Dutch Meteorological Institute's forecast for Wednesday calls for heavy snowfall with high temperatures of only 35 degrees (2 degrees Celsius). Temperatures will continue to drop Thursday and winds will be between 25 and 30 mph causing wind chill temperatures in the teens. Friday's high temperature is forecast to stay below freezing and overnight lows will drop all the way to 10 degrees (-12 Celsius).

In recent weeks as Gore started to make a number of media appearances related to the release of his new book "Our Choice" and the Copenhagen summit, much of the United States was plunged into unusually cold weather.

For complete details about the "Gore Effect" and a list of events in recent years when it seemed to occur, click here.

By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

Al Gore warned CNN viewers Wednesday about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman global warming just seconds before Kiran Chetry reported the "monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states" with "winter still two weeks away."

On "American Morning" to discuss issues surrounding the United Nations climate change conference taking place in Copenhagen, the former Vice President said, "All the mountain glaciers all over the world are melting, many of them at a greatly accelerated rate, threatening drinking water supplies."

Shortly after this ominous forecast, Chetry told viewers, "Winter still two weeks away, but snow plows are out from the plains to the Northeast. A monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states."

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By Elmer Beauregard

Someone just heard it on Rush's show, thanks Rush!
Thanks to, Noel Sheppard at Newbusters.org, Alan Watt at wattsupwiththat.com, Joe at icecap.us, Andrew Bolt, and planetgore, and all the other skeptical blogs for helping this go viral.

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Written By: James M. Taylor, Heartland Institute

Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who have recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.

A new study of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Western Himalaya mountain ranges by researchers at England's Newcastle University shows consistent recent growth among the region's glaciers.

Researchers found cooler summers are failing to melt winter snows, which are themselves becoming more frequent, resulting in advancing ice sheets.

The study was published in the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.

Unfortunately, when China got hit by a bad winter last year, that is when the Chinese started getting serious about doing something on Global Warming I mean Climate Change.

Iceagenow.com

13 Nov 09 - Unusually early snowstorms in northern China have stranded tens of thousands of vehicles and motorists, led to the deaths of 38 people, forced the evacuation of 158,000 people, and forced delays or cancellation of hundreds of flights in several cities, including China's capital city, Beijing.

The snow - heaviest in the area since records began - has caused more than half a billion dollars in damage, including the collapse of more than 7,000 buildings and damage to 297,000 acres (120,000 hectares) of crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.

By Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily

Russian research forecasts global cooling

In a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, "Sun Heats Earth!"

Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, has published a paper in which he tracks sunspot activity going back to the 19th century to argue that total sun irradiance, or TSI, is the primary factor responsible for causing climate variations on Earth, not carbon dioxide.

Moreover, Abdussamatov's analysis of sun activity data has led him to conclude that the Earth is entering a prolonged cooling phase because sunspot activity is currently in a phase regarded as a "minimum."

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World Climate Report

Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention?

The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.

Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:

A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008-2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980-2009. Strong positive phases of both the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM) were recorded during the months leading up to and including the 2008-2009 melt season.

Figure 1. Standardized values of the Antarctic snow melt index (October-January) from 1980-2009 (adapted from Tedesco and Monaghan, 2009).

Tom Nelson Blog

Europeans Tend to Care More Strongly about Climate Change Than Americans

[Only 27% of the sampled Americans saw climate change as a "large threat"; only 21% of Americans say they are willing to pay more taxes to cut greenhouse gas emissions; only 20% of Americans supported additional aid to developing countries to help them deal with climate change; only 10% of Americans avoided patronising a business because of their environmental activities (or lack thereof)] ... These are some of the findings of a Financial Times/Harris Poll conducted online by Harris Interactive® among 6,463 adults aged less than 65 in France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy and the United States between September 30 and October 7, 2009.

[Poll details here. The US sample was people aged 16-64. Why was that age range chosen?]

By Elmer Beauregard

On July 4, 1776, with the stroke of a pen, our Republic was founded when the Declaration of Independence was signed. On December 7, 2009, with another stroke of the pen, our Republic might come to end.

Lord Christopher Monckton recently spoke at an event put on by the Minnesota Free Market Institute, he SHREDDED the whole "Global Warming" theory, he was great! But it was his closing statement that shocked me.

When I started Minnesotan's For Global Warming, I knew the whole Global Warming theory was a joke. It was easy to make fun of the whole thing, especially with a cooling planet, and to portray Al Gore as a buffoon. Little did I realize that the "Global Warming" theory would be the excuse needed to set up a One World Communistic Government.

By Elmer Beauregard

Ever notice how every year they put the Christmas stuff out earlier and earlier?
Maybe retailers know something that we don't know. It's only October 12th here in Minnesota and it looks like Christmas outside. It hasn't even reached peak fall colors yet, some trees are still green and there is 3 inches of show on the ground.

Minnesotans For Global Warming Headquarters on October 12, 2009, next to unharvested soybean field.

Maybe God is trying to tell Al Gore something, who was in Wisconsin over the weekend.

Alan Nicholl, Gisborne Herald

Recently some new information has become available which seriously questions the whole UN's basis on climate change and its computer modelling work of future changes.

The week before the latest UN's world leaders' conference there was another UN climate conference in Geneva where one of the UN's own leading climate scientists and computer modellers, Professor Mojib Latif from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Keil University, stated that from recent research he has conducted he has had to conclude that global warning has ceased.

He added that the planet is currently cooling and will likely continue to do so for another 20 years.

Al Gore Lied.com

I've unearthed from the YouTube dustbin what I believe to be some significant video of man-made global warming alarmist extraordinaire Stephen Schneider's  appearance on a May 1978 episode of the old television series, In Search Of....  For this episode, the show was In Search Of...The Coming Ice Age.

By Jason Schoonover, Albert Lea Tribune

Dry, cool summer leaves local crops behind schedule, despite early start

Most area farmers have been crossing their fingers through the cool temperatures of summer, and now they're hoping cooler temperatures can hold off until next month.

"It was like there was no summer at all at times. Every farmer you talked to back then was very concerned that the crop wouldn't mature before freeze. We've still got a couple weeks to go here," said Hollandale farmer Bob Muilenburg.