When I'm urinating on a wall I like to stand back and watch what happens and that is what I'm doing about it. People, nothing to fear as our fearless leader will guide us to the light, unfortunately, the light is coming from his 100' houseboat that gets a half mile to a gallon and needs two dock connections to power the boat.
14°F -10°C
Feels Like 11°F -12°C Humidity 46% Wind WNW 2 MPH Gusts 9
Dew Point -3°F
Barometer 30.51 in. 775 mm - Rising Slowly
Reported from MADIS station D5729, 3.4 miles S of Brooklyn, at 12:38 AM Sat, Feb 21, 2015
If you're reading this from anywhere in the United States right now, there's a pretty good chance it's cold outside. We're in the middle of a massive freeze that could last until March, the breadth of which NASA's Terra satellite just captured in the remarkable view you see above. See all that territory blanketed in white? That's snow. It's not cloud patterns, or a representation of wind currents, just a bunch of frozen water atop even colder ground. NASA supplemented the photo with some harrowing, record-breaking numbers:
•1ºF in Baltimore, MD
•-6ºF in Louisville, KY
•7ºF in Charlotte, NC
•4ºF in Asheville, NC
•18ºF in Macon, GA
•14ºF in Athens, GA
The temperatures are so cold in Florida the elderly are fleeing in droves.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release No: NR-517-14
October 13, 2014
http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Rele...eleaseID=16976
DoD Releases 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, which focuses on various actions and planning the DoD is taking to increase its resilience to the impacts of climate change.
"Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change," said Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. "Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. By taking a proactive, flexible approach to assessment, analysis, and adaptation, the Defense Department will keep pace with a changing climate, minimize its impacts on our missions, and continue to protect our national security."
The 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap is available publicly at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/CCARprint.pdf.
IN April this year, the papers were full of warnings the Arctic ice could all melt.
“We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time,” claimed Dr David Barber, of Manitoba University, ignoring the many earlier times the Pole has been ice free.
“It’s hard to see how the system may bounce back (this year),” fretted Dr Ignatius Rigor, of Washington University’s polar science centre.
Tim Flannery also warned “this may be the Arctic’s first ice-free year”, and the ABC and Age got reporter Marian Wilkinson to go stare at the ice and wail: “Here you can see climate change happening before your eyes.”
In fact,*the Arctic’s ice cover this year was almost 10 per cent above last year’s great low, and has refrozen rapidly since. Meanwhile, sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere has been increasing. Been told either cool fact?
Yet Barber is again in the news this month, predicting an ice-free Arctic now in six years. Did anyone ask him how he got his last prediction wrong?
Lesson:*The media prefers hot scares to cool truths. And it rarely holds its pet scaremongers to account.