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NO SALT AGAIN AS SNOW LOOMS by John Ingham, Daily Express

Tuesday, February 9th 2010, 2:25 AM EST

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BRITAIN faces the risk of renewed snow chaos after councils admitted yesterday that salt supplies are “stretched”.

With heavy snow forecast from tomorrow until the end of the week, councils revealed they may need to share salt with neighbouring authorities if stocks get low.

One source warned: “This is serious” while the Local Government Association cautioned that everyone, including central government and the Highways Agency is going to “have to carefully manage the way they use salt”.

It said councils are replenishing salt stocks but stressed: “They can only restock as fast as salt suppliers can dig salt out of the ground.” The warning came as the Met Office issued an advisory of “severe or extreme weather”, forecasting up to six inches of snow across the South-east on Thursday and up to four inches on Friday.

It warned next week could bring “more substantial” snowfalls as weather fronts move in.

Source Link: express.co.uk

COMMENT MET OFFICE UK WINTER FORECAST 2009/10 YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT UP

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You Could Not Make It Up: Siberian cold likely to bring sub-zero temperatures and snow by Paul Simons

Monday, February 8th 2010, 6:49 PM EST

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The following extract COULD run into trouble for the MET OFFICE, they are quoted as saying that they can predict weather months in advance, and yet they DID NOT MENTION THIS FORECAST LAST WEEK!!!

Unlike the earlier part of winter, though, this next freeze was forecast by the Met Office months ago, thanks to an extraordinary chain reaction in the atmosphere across the globe.

The story begins with El Niño, the big warming of tropical seas under way in the Pacific. So much hot air soared up from the Pacific it punched through into the stratosphere and dislocated winds 20-50km high.

On January 20 this colossal jolt sent unusually warm air flooding into the stratosphere over the Arctic, where temperatures in the stratosphere soared by 40C in just a few days. The intensely cold stratosphere air normally over the Arctic was shunted over Europe instead. Eventually that cold stratosphere rippled down into the lower atmosphere, flipping our winds from west to east — and easterly winds in winter usually give us our coldest weather.

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Source Link: timesonline.co.uk

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PIERS CORBYN

MUST LISTEN: Sun Talk Radio show with Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com

Monday, February 8th 2010, 6:23 PM EST

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Is the weather to take another turn for the worst? Piers Corbyn of Weather Action has the forecast as reports suggest Britain may be hit by another wave of snow

Piers Corbyn was on SUN TALK RADIO on the 12th January 2010 [LINK] and said to John Gaunt that more snow would follow in the UK come February, John asked him to come back on the show, and here he is with the snow...

Piers Corbyn gives his UK February winter forecast to Sun Talk Radio and mentions "plenty of more snow to come", take a note of the dates and see how close he is. Piers also has a dig at the Met Office for not using his service at WeatherAction.com as by doing so they would have to acknowledge that our climate is driven by the Sun and NOT Man.

CLICK to go to ArcticSnap.com for NEW SUN TALK radio link for February.

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PAUL DRIESSEN

Disclosing the Real Risks on Climate Change by Paul Driessen, TownHall.com

Monday, February 8th 2010, 8:52 AM EST

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We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world’s climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro insisted on announcing the SEC’s new “interpretive guidance” on climate change.

The Commission’s two Republican members objected that the Obama Administration was using the Commission to promote its global warming and renewable energy agenda (along with the EPA, NASA, Defense and Interior Departments and others). It’s true, but irrelevant.

Environmentalists and “ethical investing” groups had pressured the Commission for years to require corporate disclosure on climate matters. Now, as the SEC steps in, the Copenhagen treaty negotiations have collapsed in disarray. Cap-and-trade has bogged down over senators’ fears of further damage to the economy and their reelection chances. The Environmental Protection Agency has decreed that plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide is a “dangerous pollutant,” because senators are increasingly reluctant to micromanage the economy, companies and families, but the regs are likely to go nowhere.

Source Link: townhall.com

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NIGEL LAWSON

NIGEL LAWSON: IF CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE MUST ADAPT, NOT FIGHT NATURE by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sunday Express

Monday, February 8th 2010, 8:41 AM EST

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NEVER before has the debate over global warming been so bitter or so public.

Climate change sceptics have been rubbing their hands with glee over the recent revelations about dodgy goings-on in the research laboratories and at the UN’s International Panel On Climate Change that suggest all is suddenly not so well with the theory of man-made global warming.

Some of the most alarmist claims about how the world is hurtling towards disaster unless we drastically curb carbon emissions have been shown to be nothing but, well, hot air. These damaging exposes may have shocked the public but were no surprise to Britain’s foremost climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson.

He was one of Margaret Thatcher’s most successful Chancellors and is father of TV chef Nigella. Now, at the age of 77, Lawson, has a new goal: to save the world from itself. His new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation aims “to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist”.

As in Lawson’s best-selling book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, the foundation argues against the fashionable policy of drastically cutting carbon emissions .

Source Link: express.co.uk

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Obama Czar: Government should Ban discussion of Climategate by Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily.com

Monday, February 8th 2010, 5:49 AM EST

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In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban “conspiracy theorizing.”

Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.

Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate “extremists who supply conspiracy theories” to disrupt the efforts of the “extremists” to propagate their theories.

In a 2008 Harvard law paper, “Conspiracy Theories,” Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, “What can government do about conspiracy theories?”

“We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”

Source Link: wnd.com

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DENNIS T. AVERY

India Sets up Independent Global Warming Panel by Dennis T. Avery, AmericanDaily.com

Monday, February 8th 2010, 2:39 AM EST

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CHURCHVILLE, VA - India is setting up its own climate research unit because it no longer trusts the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I’ve been predicting such a move for years - partly due to the IPCC’s biased science, but more because India simply cannot afford to curtail its desperately needed and energy-powered economic growth. India’s government’s stability depends on expanding prosperity for the all of its people. That means more energy, and over half of India’s electricity comes from coal.

Carried to its extreme, the global warming scare would pressure India to give up the nitrogen fertilizer that feeds nearly half its population - and even slaughter its 200 million sacred cows, which daily produce huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane. Either would cause widespread rioting.

The warming alarmists have predicted awful things for India unless fossil fuels are curbed, including submergence of its coastal lands, lack of water for irrigation, increased cyclone activity, and forced shifts in rice production that would threaten hunger for millions.

Source Link: americandaily.com

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MICHAEL BEENSTOCK

GLOBAL WARMING TO BECOME GLOBAL COOLING, CLAIMS EXPERT By John Ingham, Daily Express

Monday, February 8th 2010, 2:19 AM EST

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GLOBAL warming is set to become global cooling this century, a leading analyst claimed yesterday.

Professor Michael Beenstock said theories of climate change are wrong. He warned climatologists have misused statistics, leading them to the mistaken conclusion global warming is evidence of the greenhouse effect.

He told London’s Cass Business School that the link between rising greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures is “spurious”, adding: “The greenhouse effect is an illusion.”

The economics professor from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that just because greenhouse gases and temperatures have risen together does not mean they are linked.

He claims that the real cause of rising temperatures is the sun, which he says is at its hottest for over 1,000 years but is “beginning to stabilise”.

Source Link: express.co.uk

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CARTOON

US Postal Charges drive Global Warming

Monday, February 8th 2010, 2:05 AM EST

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PASS IT ON TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER AND CONGRESSMAN THEY WILL SURELY WANT TO KNOW IT'S NOT CO2