If Global Warming Gets Any Worse We'll All Freeze to Death! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

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Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the

reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming

theory?

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that

almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that

ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to

just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original

levels.

Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is

nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global

warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the

world is undergoing global warming.

The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a

melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight

climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his

"Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind's alleged impact on the global

climate.

Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August

when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in

recent years.

As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to

have joined the ranks of the skeptics.

As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has

endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the

area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception -

Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as

low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.

Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest

snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and

Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that

over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.

Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest

falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and

freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first

in the memory of most residents.

AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China,

stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the

area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said

Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate

Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a

government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.

Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four

remained missing as of Saturday.

An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region,

which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and

buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had

killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha

Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang

Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer

newspaper.

In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according

to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as

one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing

night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least

the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to

cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold

weather.

Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most

of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on

Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported

that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider

Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed,

and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were

also closed.

Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of

Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were

snowed in.

More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and

temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest

temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where

they plunged to -12 C.

Temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest

temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where

they plunged to -12 C.

If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death.