Watching the troubles in Haiti, I keep thinking what would happen if a disaster happened here during the winter and we lost all power and water. Many people would die from the cold. We could not survive in tents. People trapped in buildings would die from exposure within hours. Heat is bad, but not as bad as bone chilling cold.
Sea freezes in China? Jan 16 - Unusually cold winter weather across much of northern and eastern China has brought heavy snowfall and icy winds, snarling transportation both on land and at sea.
In the Bohai sea to the country's northeast, ice covered some 30,000 square kilometres - up to 40 percent of the Bohai bay - by Saturday (January 16).
Ice extended as far as 70 nautical miles from the coast in some areas and the thickness reached 50 centimetres, the report on China's Central Television (CCTV) said.
In the country's vast northern Inner Mongolia region, thirty-five cars were stranded in the middle of a highway for more than 15 hours.
Cold kills. Ice in China? Will this be taken into account when they average global temperatures? Or will they continue to hide the decline but reducing the number of temperature readings in China. Guess Canada doesn't count because they do not include the NWT, Yukon or the Arctic in their global temperature readings.
Someone needs to call these so-called scientists on what the heck they are doing. Other scientists should be concerned because people are going to put them on the same page as politicians and journalists.
If I had a choice, I would pick global warming over global cooling any day!
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Vancouver on the other hand is melting, ironic how we are about to host the Winter Olympics...
I had the air conditioning on in my car the other day.
During the ice storm of 1998, we were without power for 30 days, starting on January 5th. I live in the country, so I am on a well, with a septic system. No electricity = no water. Every day, I visited someone to fill up a container so I could do dishes, etc. You learn to be very frugal, very fast with your water. (When you finish the dishes, you drain that water into a bucket, to flush the toilet.) A shower, you usually drove the 60km to Montreal. Bring back a hot meal. We lived in the living room for the 30 days, so we didn't have to heat the rest of the house -- we heat with wood.
That being said, my "discomfort" was nothing compared to what the people in Haiti are going through. Nothing. After 30 days, we were reconnected to the grid and life went on. This will not happen in Haiti, unfortunately.
Their is evidence the UN allowed a small number of people to cherry pick facts to sell this Carbon Tax (Cap & Trade) scheme.
Thousands of the temperature stations that went offline (gone) all over the world. The incorrect placement. The fudging of the data and reluctance to share the methodology it makes this not science but sciencism.
The pushback has been going on for years and it appears in the US Obama will NOT be able to push this new tax scheme through.
A tiny nit to pick....My grandmother moved to Alberta 1904. Her family from Oklahoma spent their first winter in Alberta living in a tent. Coldest reading 46 below in January. So technically we could survive living in a tent if we had to.....
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