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[Rogerdodger]

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South Africa sets 54 temperature records
Johannesburg, 24 May 2007
An unusually severe blast of winter weather has swept across South Africa, killing at least 17 people through exposure and highlighting the country's chronic housing shortage.
The South African Weather Service said 54 temperature records were set as snow, hail and heavy rain descended on the country. Many cities recorded record low temperatures while others hit new marks for the heaviest one-day rainfall.


Argentina cold snap causes energy woes
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By BILL CORMIER, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 1, 12:48 AM ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A cold snap in Argentina led to electricity and natural gas shortages this week, idling factories and taxis and causing sporadic blackouts in the capital.
Beset by the coldest May since 1962, millions of residents fired up space heaters, straining Buenos Aires' electrical grid for three nights and forcing authorities to slash power supply nationwide and briefly cut domestic natural gas provisions and exports to Chile.

Grumbling taxi drivers waited for hours in lines stretching several blocks to fill up their black-and-yellow cabs with scarce compressed natural gas. Some protested by tossing garbage into the streets during rush hour Thursday, causing traffic jams.

Julio De Vido, the nation's top energy planner. He called the cold an "extraordinary climate event unseen here in 45 years."

Pike's Peak: Record spring snow
May 25, 2007
The snowiest spring on Pike's Peak in Colorado in a decade has occurred this spring. Barr Camp recorded 231 inches of snow this winter.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 June 2007 - 01:21 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

While record heat seems to make the news... My brief experience here on Mother Earth has revealed how dynamic the weather is. While one area experiences heat & drought, another experiences cold & flooding. Humans seem to want it all predictable. All the same, year after year. We build dams to control flooding only to destroy "normal" vibrant natural cycles. Perhaps the weather extremes have a purpose. Maybe even a value.

[Rogerdodger]

How could this be?

Thick Arctic ice blamed for Piedras Blancas low gray whale count
06/06/2007
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—Thick Arctic ice may be the reason for a precipitous drop in this spring's two-month gray whale count at Point Piedras Blancas.
Only 115 gray whale calves were counted this year by scientists at Point Piedras Blancas, down dramatically from the 285 counted last year. It's the fourth-lowest count in the 14-year history of the cetacean census.
Wayne Perryman, of the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service, said he had expected fewer calves this year because of thick ice in the Arctic seas, the gray whale's summer feeding grounds. The thick ice makes it more difficult for cows to eat enough to support a successful pregnancy.
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Denver has coldest June in 50 years! Latest Freeze on record!
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The temperature at Denver International Airport fell to 31 degrees at 5:44 a.m. Friday, setting a new record low for the date.
Temperatures in Denver have only dropped below freezing two other times during the month of June; 32 degrees on June 1, 1919 and 30 degrees on June 2, 1951.

9 of 12 warmest years for Denver occurred before 1955...


Meanwhile, the newspaper headlines::
Denver targets global warming (Link)
Denver is gearing up to fight global warming, and residents may soon be asked to make personal sacrifices to help save the planet.
The climate action plan is just a proposal, but Denver hopes to start putting it in place by the end of the year. Much of it promises to be controversial.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 12 June 2007 - 12:21 AM.

[stocks]

Warming 'hot spot' in northern Minnesota:

While it is generally found that global warming will be more pronounced in northern areas, it is difficult to understand how such a strong local variation in warming could be due to ‘global climate change’.

http://www.climateau...=1702#more-1702

[Rogerdodger]

Midsummer Snow falling in central Sweden
14th June 2007
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7602/

It might be only one week to Midsummer, but nobody seems to have told mother nature. Snow has returned to parts of central Sweden, with five centimetres falling in some places.

Flurries expected in Wyoming
Saturday: A slight chance of snow or rain showers.

[Rogerdodger]

NOW PREPARE FOR 'DANGEROUS GLOBAL COOLING'


Read the sunspots
June 20, 2007
Forget warming, beware the new ice age

Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada. As a country at the northern limit to agriculture in the world, it would take very little cooling to destroy much of our food crops, while a warming would only require that we adopt farming techniques practiced to the south of us.

(LINK)

PS: Did you know:
"In September, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the National Climate Program Act into law, in aid of predicting future climate and combating global cooling."

Edited by Rogerdodger, 20 June 2007 - 09:46 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Las Vegas makes the news today with 116 degrees and 3% humidity!
(Remember the snow on the Plam trees last winter?)

What you don't read is that here in the midwest, it's been unusually cool and wet.
Tulsa finally reached 92 degrees today.
That is a record for the latest date in July that we have reached 92 since 1902.
It is normally near 100 or more here by now.
It rained every day but 4 in June and has now rained every day in July.

The weather. Everybody talks about it but nobody does a thing about it.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 July 2007 - 10:33 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

I grew up in the "Bible belt" where my best friends always wanted to "save" me.
But most of them, including the TV preachers, needed saving as much as I did.
This new "global warming" religion is much the same: We must "get saved" but who will save the savers?


Live Earth is promoting green to save the planet - what planet are they on?

Madonna "saves the planet"
For her 2006 World Tour, she flew by private jet, transporting a team of up to 100 technicians and dancers around the globe. Waiting in the garage at home, she has a Mercedes Maybach, two Range Rovers, an Audi A8 and a Mini Cooper S. Madonna alone has an annual carbon footprint of 1,018 tonnes, according to John Buckley.

The Live Earth event is, in the words of one commentator: "a massive, hypocritical fraud".

The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.

The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists' and spectators' travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations.

Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year.

The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums - much of which will go directly into landfill sites.
A spokesman for Wembley says they only have the capacity to recycle around a third of waste produced - the rest will go into landfill sites.

Indeed, an audit of the lifestyles of the A-list performers appearing at Live Earth, reveals that they are among the worst individual polluters in the world, as their world tours and private jets billow thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. One hour in a Gulfstream jet burns as much fuel as driving a family car for a year.
The Daily Mail has found that five of the top performing acts together have an annual output of almost 2,000 carbon tonnes.

What planet do these people live on?"

Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 July 2007 - 08:13 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

I guess the proof is in the bottom line:

Tulsans save on power bills: Cooling off naturally
By JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
7/11/2007
Last Modified: 7/11/2007 5:35 AM

AEP-PSO feels revenue loss
A rainy June and a cooler-than-expected summer saved Tulsa AEP-PSO customers an average of $22.61 from June 2006 on their electricity bills.
"It was a wet, rainy June with fewer cooling days," said Stan Whiteford, a spokesman for American Electric Power-Public Service Company of Oklahoma.

About 28 percent of yearly energy costs go to cooling, and June rains kept houses cool and air conditioners off across the state.
With about 450,000 residential customers, the utility is short about $10.17 million, based on revenues earned inJune 2006.
Based on June 2005 power usage, the company is short about $4.18 million in expected revenues.
NEWS LINK

The weather channel was freaking about the "Heat Wave'' sweeping east across America.
Tulsa, in HOT RED showed a temperature of 75 at noon on July 10th!
It's usually 100+

Edited by Rogerdodger, 11 July 2007 - 09:36 PM.