Br-R-R! Where Did Global Warming Go?

[The answer is that the spin doctors have morphed 'global warming' into 'climate change', so in the land of BS, all is perfectly well -RG]<br />
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Well, see you have it backwards. 'Climate Change' has always been here, just it got confused with 'Global Warming' for a while.<br />
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But, as to where Climate change is - here are some samples . . .<br />
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<a href="http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&q=flooding&btnG=Search+News">http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&q=flooding&btnG=Search+News</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&q=australia+fires&ie=UTF-8">http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=ca&q=australia+fires&ie=UTF-8</a><br />
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Toronto sets record daily high - set in 1998 . . .<br />
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<a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/291646">http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/291646</a><br />
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Solar Cycle 24 has begun- we'll see if it has any impact on global temperatures. . . .<br />
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<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/solar-cycle-24-has-officially-started/">http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/solar-cycle-24-has-officially-started/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/index.html">http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/index.html</a><p>---<br>The preceding comment deals with mature subject matter, however immaturely presented. Viewer discretion is advised.<br />

I can recall as a child extreme weather conditions on occasion, and this was going on well before the global warming (aka 'climate change') fear mongering. The fact is that just about every year there has been a new record being set somewhere in the world for one weather condition or another. Some years are more active than others, and I suspect we'll see more of the usual uneventful weather conditions followed by one eventful extreme or another in the years to come, which is business as usual.

Exactly. Yesterday, it was warmer than it was today. Tomorrow may be different.

Climate Change.


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Well, you guys have confirmed that we are indeed Canadians!

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck

Unusually warm weather causing flooding in parts of Quebec
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - Rain and warm temperatures are causing flooding in several regions of Quebec today.

The hardest hit areas are the Beauce, south of Quebec City, and the town of Huntingdon, southwest of Montreal. The Quebec Transport Department says two small rivers have overflowed their banks, forcing the closure of a large portion of a highway near the American border.

Huntingdon Mayor Stephane Gendron says he is worried the downtown area could be flooded and result in 200 evacuations if the rain continues.

In the Beauce region, several chalets have already been evacuated.

Quebec's civil protection agency is also keeping an eye on several rivers, including the Chateauguay River just south of Montreal.

A coast guard hovercraft has been called in to break up ice on the river to avoid jams.


Rare winter tornadoes in Midwest flatten houses, knock railroad cars off tracks
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Neighbours look through the wreckage of a home destroyed by a tornado near Niangua, Mo., Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mark Schiefelbein

WHEATLAND, Wis. - A freak cluster of tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking railroad cars off their tracks and even temporarily halting justice in one courthouse.

Record temperatures were reported across much of the country Monday, and storms continued to pummel the nation's midsection as darkness fell. More warmth and storms were in store for Tuesday.

Tornadoes were reported or suspected Monday in southwest Missouri, southeastern Wisconsin, Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. Two people were killed in Missouri.

Eleven houses in Wisconsin's Kenosha County were destroyed, five others had heavy damage and four had moderate damage, authorities said. About 13 people were injured, none seriously.

"I have never seen damage like this in the summertime when we have potential for tornadoes," Sheriff David Beth said. "To see something like this in January is mind-boggling to me. This is just unimaginable to me."

Tim Carpentier was among the Kenosha residents whose homes had tornado damage. He said he and his daughters, 13 and 15 years old, heard storm warnings just after getting home. Then he heard a roar.

"I was just running down the stairs as the front windows blew out," he said. The front of his house was flipped over the roof, and neighboring houses had collapsed roofs and natural gas leaks.

Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce E. Schroeder, presiding over opening testimony in a murder trial, said he couldn't believe it when a deputy said the courtroom had to be evacuated because of a tornado warning.

"It's a first," he said while waiting with 300 people in the basement. "I've actually had.... warnings occur during jury trials before and frankly I just ignored them. But not in January."

Beckie Gilbert, a secretary who works in Wheatland, watched from her company's back door as wispy funnel clouds grew and the tornado uprooted about five trees.

"We saw it in the distance, which wasn't far, and it was pretty scary," she said. "We were watching as it picked up dirt and got really dark, and then it disappeared over some trees."

Meteorologists said the unusual weather was the result of warm, moist air moving from the south. It brought temperatures hovering near 70 degrees on Sunday and Monday.

"It's very unseasonable for this time of year," said National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Sipprell. "The atmosphere is just right."

About six homes were destroyed in the small town of Poplar Grove, Ill., where authorities rescued motorists trapped by downed, live electrical lines and crews searched damaged structures to make sure no one was trapped. Three people suffered minor injuries, Boone County Sheriff's Lt. Perry Gay said.

About 24 kilometres away in Harvard, Ill., a suspected tornado derailed one locomotive and 12 freight cars. A tank car containing shock fluid leaked for hours before it was contained, and another derailed car contained ethylene oxide, a flammable material widely used to sterilize medical supplies, but was not leaking, Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said.

Authorities ordered about 500 residents to evacuate the nearby unincorporated town of Lawrence, said Capt. David Shepherd with the McHenry County Sheriff's Office. No injuries were reported, he said.

Elsewhere, the heat was making history. By about noon Monday, Chicago's temperature already had hit 18 degrees, breaking a previous record-high of 15 degrees set on Jan. 7, 1907, according to the weather service.

The high in 15 N.Y., of 59 degrees beat the old record for the date by 5 degrees. The high was 19 in Toledo, Ohio, a record that led some University of Toledo students to stroll to class in T-shirts, flip-flops and shorts. In New Jersey, the Atlantic City International Airport recorded a high of 20 degrees, breaking a 10-year-old record by 10 degrees.

Six snowmobilers missing in the Colorado mountains for 2 1/2 days while a howling blizzard swirled around them were rescued Monday - hungry and cold but unhurt - after taking shelter in a cozy cabin and calling 911 on a cell phone when the storm eased up.

The group, consisting of two couples and two teenagers, broke into the cabin, where they huddled around a gas grill and dined on popcorn and chicken bouillon they found inside.

"We counted 18 blankets. We were cozy," 31-year-old Shannon Groen said after rescue crews on snowmobiles brought the group to safety. "God was looking out for us.

Denial ain't no river in Egypt, Rearguard. You can't make this go away by ignoring all the warm stories and trumpeting all the cold ones. The prediction from the overwhelming majority of scientists on this was for a gradual upward trend in global average temperatures, in conjunction with more unstable weather systems and unusual storm activity.

So far they have been right on the money.







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