Global Warming: Winter Whack: Nation Faces Arctic Chill; 6 Feet of Snow Hit Buffalo

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Winter Whack: Nation Faces Arctic Chill; 6 Feet of Snow Hit Buffalo Area

Blistering cold air blasted across most of the country Tuesday, and a lake-effect snowstorm hammered the Great Lakes and parts of New York, hitting some places with more than 6 feet of snow — so much that the National Guard was activated around Buffalo. More than 100 miles of the New York State Thruway were closed, trapping a college basketball team on its bus more than 24 hours and counting.

The National Weather Service said Tuesday night that some areas of the Buffalo suburbs were approaching 76 inches of snow since Monday — that's the record for snowfall over a 24-hour period anywhere in the U.S. ever.

"This is a very intense storm, one of those record storms that we are going to remember for a few years beyond this date," Buffalo Public Works Commissioner Steven Stepniak said.

High temperatures struggled to climb above freezing in much of the Northeast, and they didn't even come close across most of the Midwest. Wind chills made it feel close to zero or colder in parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

And there's no sign of a reprieve from the cold brought to the country by what meteorologists call an Omega block — cold that has been blamed for at least 19 deaths in traffic accidents on icy roads since Saturday, at least three deaths from weather-related heart attacks in Upstate New York and the death of a 16-year-old boy from exposure in Nebraska.

More than 100 cities could break records Tuesday night and Wednesday for the lowest daily high or low temperature for this time of year, The Weather Channel reported. That includes the Plains, the Midwest, the Deep South and the Northeast.
At 34 degrees, Anchorage, Alaska, was expected to be 12 degrees warmer Wednesday morning than Tallahassee, Florida.

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A NASA satellite captured snow-band clouds over the Great Lakes on Tuesday. In New York, the problem was snow. Roads and schools were closed, and states of emergency were declared for some counties. The National Guard was activated in Erie County, which includes Buffalo, to help with cleanup. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown bluntly told motorists at a news conference to stay off the streets and warned would-be visitors not to even think about coming into town as the city's traffic office reported that at least 100 vehicles were stranded on main streets in the southern half of the city.

Meanwhile, a 100-mile-long stretch of Interstate 90 from Rochester, New York, to the Pennsylvania state line — known as the New York State Thruway — was shut down Tuesday night because of whiteout conditions. State officials were checking on their welfare, NBC station WHEC of Rochester (http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s3623979.shtml?cat=565) reported.

The Niagara University Purple Eagles women's basketball team was trying to return home from Pittsburgh after a loss to the Pitt Panthers on Monday night when the team bus got stuck on the Thruway just 50 miles from their campus in Buffalo. They remained stuck there Tuesday night (http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/11/18/niagara-womens-basketball-team-stuck-on-team-bus-since-2-a-m/related) — live-tweeting their experience after more than 24 hours on board, thanks to the bus' Wi-Fi.

The team decided to stay on the bus rather than to be evacuated. Ellen Pzepasniak, a spokeswoman for the Erie County executive's office, said emergency officials have been checking up on the bus, and "there are no reported issues."

RELATED: Follow the Niagara University Basketball Team's Adventure on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NUWBBstrandedonbus)
Because the wind wasn't expected to shift direction much, forecasters said snow would pile especially high. Lancaster, New York, had 4 feet on the ground by mid-afternoon, and Orchard Park had 3 feet. About 2 feet was on the ground in parts of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

"By the time all is said and done, parts of Upstate New York could be buried in over 5 feet of new snow," said Jonathan Erdman, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.

[old steel]

They need to send asshole Al Gore over with a snow shovel to help them dig out.

[Glass]

They need to send asshole Al Gore over with a snow shovel to help them dig out.

He invented the internet you know.

[old steel]

Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth


Sunday, 16 Nov 2014 07:46 PM
By Clayton B. Reid









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With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" — climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come.

In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell," which warns that a radical shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and other environmentalists have it completely wrong.

The earth, he says, is cooling, and cooling fast.

And unless the scientific community and political leaders act soon, cold, dark days are ahead.

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Casey says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because of diminished solar activity.

He says trends indicate we could be headed for colder temperatures similar to those seen in the late 1700s and early 1800s when the sun went into a "solar minimum" — a phenomenon with significantly reduced solar activity, including solar flares and sunspots.


If he's right, that would be very bad news.

"Dark Winter" posits that a 30-year period of cold has already begun. Frigid temperatures and the food shortages that inevitably result could lead to riots and chaos.

Casey tells Newsmax, "All you have to do is trust natural cycles and follow the facts, and that leads you to the inevitable conclusion that the sun controls the climate, and that a new cold era has begun."

Casey is president of the Space and Science Research Corp., an Orlando, Fla., climate research firm.

His new book debunks global warming orthodoxy. For more than a decade, he reports, the planet's oceans have been cooling. And since 2007, the atmospheric temperature has been cooling as well.

"The data is pretty solid," Casey says. "If you look at the 100-year global temperature chart, you look at the steep drop-off we've had since 2007. It's the steepest drop in global temperatures in the last hundred years."

So how can the media and scientific elites make a case for global warming when it's actually cooling?

Casey suggests climate-change theorists have simply wedded themselves to the wrong theory — namely, that global temperatures respond to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Any scientist suggesting otherwise is castigated as a heretic, though there are other prominent scientists who support Casey.

Noted Russian astrophysicist Habibullo I. Abdussamatov has argued that a new mini-ice age has begun, though Casey doesn't go that far.

He does agree with Abdussamatov that the real driver of global climate is solar activity, namely sunspots. These correspond to shifts in global temperature with a greater than 90 percent accuracy, he says.

The environmental left focuses instead on ever-rising greenhouse emissions, suggesting nature is just taking a bit of a breather before the upward march in temperatures ineluctably resumes.

"There are two fundamental flaws with that," Casey says. "No. 1, the greenhouse-gas theory, and the global climate models that they produced, never permitted a pause. As long as CO2 levels were going up, the only thing that could happen was global temperatures could go up. That has not happened.

"No. 2, there could absolutely be no cooling, much less a pause. And yet we've been cooling for 11 years now."

The recent polar vortex that sent temperatures across the Midwest plunging to sub-zero records is not an aberration, Casey says.

If "Dark Winter" is right, that means the nation is busily preparing for the wrong calamity.

"We don't have 10 years," Casey warns. "We've squandered during President Obama's administration eight years ... and we didn't have eight years to squander."

The worst of the cooling cycle, Casey predicts, will hit in the late 2020s and the early 2030s.

Food riots will break out, demand for heating oil will spike, and the failure of the corn crop will put the squeeze on ethanol.

He even predicts the United States will ban agricultural exports to feed its own citizens.

When Casey developed his theories in 2007, he emerged with several predictions.

Rising temperatures would begin to reverse themselves within three years. The sun would enter a phase of reduced activity he called "solar hibernation." And oceanic and atmospheric temperatures would enter a long decline.

So far, all of Casey's predictions have come true. He says, "My theory tells you when it will be cold ... and it is the cold that kills."

Casey also suggests that a long-term cold spell will have dire effects on the earth's geology.

As air and ocean temperatures cool, the earth's crust begins changing, leading to more volcanic activity and earthquakes. Casey notes that the worst earthquake to strike the continental U.S. in modern times was in 1812 in New Madrid, Missouri — during the last great solar minimum.

The climate changes also will affect human activity and may be a prelude to revolutionary politics. He says the French Revolution took place at the beginning of the last solar minimum in 1789.

"It could be one of the reasons Putin is so eager to get Ukraine," Casey says. "For many decades before Ukraine became independent, it was the primary source of wheat for the Soviet Union during cold weather times. Putin must have the wheat of Ukraine for the new cold era."

Casey has a worried look as he talks about the revelations in "Dark Winter."

"There is no human on earth, much less here in the U.S., who has experienced the depth and duration of cold we're about to experience — it's that serious," he says.

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[old steel]

He invented the internet you know.

If he ever shows his face up here again which i highly doubt we will feed him to a polar bear.

[Serpo]

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“Something very bad is continuing to happen at the Honeywell plant–these counts/clicks per minute(CPM) are WAY ABOVE NORMAL!!!! Currently, the posted monitor is recording….
wait for it……
3402 CPM!!!!!
How to determine how far “off normal” this is?
20CPM is the “normal” for US Nuclear Plant workers
100CPM is the “normal” for Fukushima workers and is also the level in the US that triggers an “ALERT”
150 CPM can cause a REAL RISK OF CANCER if exposed for a one year period
500 CPM can cause a REAL risk of cancer if exposed for 90 DAYS
current reading is SIX TIMES THIS
The monitored low for this station is 6: the highest reading is 7298”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuha32gD6c

[crimethink]

Something very bad is continuing to happen at the Honeywell plant–these counts/clicks per minute(CPM) are WAY ABOVE NORMAL!!!!

Complete bullshit.

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[Glass]

Don't they say the last great cooling only took 5 years to go from regular environment to ice age conditions. I agree it seems to be noticeably cooling. The statistics that are published don't seem to show big changes in temps from average.

Down here the weather beaureu seems to publish 20 years only of stats. Mostly averages with no way to compare to the current year. 20 years doesn't give you any thing you can use. It can't be interpreted at all. No way to see what the trend is. We've had records since the late 1800's. Other fiddles go on as well. They do now publish some sites they used to hide but the current official reading site is different since maybe 20 years or less.

After all that, I look at their numbers and remember the year and say, we are probably close. not quite 1degree colder. maybe as much as 5% drier although farmers had a bumper yield.

Is Europe copping it as well?

[Twisted Titan]

Casey says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because of diminished solar activity.*




So what do you propose?

Build a artificial sun?

[Horn]

Casey says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because of diminished solar activity.*




So what do you propose?

Build a artificial sun?

A huge magnetic rope as tow line to pull us closer in orbit... maybe enough to stop Earth from spinning all together.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxuacZudBPU