Cold-weather accounts for almost all temperature-related deaths. With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise that there has been an upward trend in hospital visits and admissions for injuries caused by high heat over the last several years. But cold temperatures are responsible for almost all temperature-related deaths, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research. According to the new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, patients who died because of cold temperatures were responsible for 94% of temperature-related deaths, even though hypothermia was responsible for only 27% of temperature-related hospital visits.

23 Norwegian Weather Stations Logged their COLDEST-EVER July Temperature last month. July, 2020 was historically cold throughout Scandinavia — and across much of Europe for that matter. The Nordic nation of Norway's average temperature came out at 0.6[°]C below the norm, making for the country's coldest July in 50 years. As reported by kommunikasjon.ntb.no, a staggering 23 weather stations measured their lowest-ever July temperature, mainly in Innlandet, Viken, and Vestland.

Global Cooling Gives Nightmares To Global Warming Alarmists. Cycles of sun spots are fairly predictable and the current cycle is looking more and more like the Maunder Minimum that created the "Little Ice Age" between 1650 and 1715.

The sun has entered a 'lockdown' period, which could cause freezing weather, famine. Our sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say. The sun is currently in a period of "solar minimum," meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically. Experts believe we are about to enter the deepest period of sunshine "recession" ever recorded as sunspots have virtually disappeared. Astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips said: "Solar Minimum is underway and it's a deep one." "Sunspot counts suggest it is one of the deepest of the past century. The sun's magnetic field has become weak,

Polar vortex could bring record low temperatures to NYC this weekend. A polar vortex is sweeping into the Northeast this weekend, and it could bring the Albany region its first measurable May snowfall in 18 years — and potentially record low temperatures to the Big Apple, forecasters predict. The wintry air mass is expected to send a chill through the region beginning on Friday [5/8/2020], according to the Albany branch of the National Weather Service. "We continue to closely watch a storm for Friday afternoon into Friday night that may bring a period of snow to most of eastern NY and western New England," the weather service posted to Facebook.

NOAA Satellite records second largest 2-month temperature drop in history. The Northern Hemisphere temperature anomaly fell from +0.96 deg. C to 0.43 deg. C from February to April, a 0.53 deg. C drop which is the 2nd largest 2-month drop in the 497-month satellite record. The largest 2-month drop was -0.69 deg. C from December 1987 to February 1988.

The Earth's Temperature. Going down.

On April 10, well into the spring:

Snowstorm knocks out power for over 266K Maine residents. A fierce April snowstorm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Maine as it swept through the state Friday morning [4/9/2020]. The National Weather Service in Caribou said just after 9 a.m. that 32 percent of all power customers — more than 266,000 people — in the state were without power as a result of the storm. Some areas north of Portland took the brunt of the storm, with more than 7 inches of snow, according to the weather service. Central Maine Power asked its customers "to be prepared to be without power for likely more than a day."

Homes in New York become 'IGLOOS' and trap residents inside. An icy blast and blizzard in the East Coast has frozen over a Lake Erie neighborhood in New York, transforming homes into igloos and the water into an ice sheet. Homes in Hamburg, New York were completely covered in ice over the weekend, with icicles hanging down from doors and windows, leaving some homes completely in the dark due to frosted windows. Shocking photographs show homes and trees on Hoover Beach, just in front of the lake, covered in thick muddied snow and ice.



Breaking down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts. [Claim #3] More people accept the basic premises that it's getting hot and that it's our fault. Well, you might think that if you believe the highly adjusted temperature data published by NASA GISS and [University of East Anglia's Climate Research unit] on climate (ground zero for the embarrassing and revealing Climategate affair in 2009). But when you look at unadjusted data, such as is produced by the state-of-the-art United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN) operated by NOAA, you get a wholly different idea about temperature over the last decade.

Grand Solar Minimum May Bring Global Cool-down. As globalists and their media advocates continue to propagandize apocalyptically about climate change and so-called anthropogenic global warming, some scientists are warning that another type of climate change is on its way. Earth may be in for conditions similar to the Little Ice Age, as it seems that the Sun is entering a prolonged solar minimum according to a prominent scientist. Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, who also has a doctorate in astrophysics, is warning of a coming Grand Solar Minimum (GSM), similar to the Maunder Minimum that occurred from the mid-16th century until the early 17th century and coincided with a time on Earth known as the Little Ice Age. "The Sun is approaching a hibernation period," said Professor Zharkova. "Less sunspots will be formed on the solar surface and thus less energy and radiation will be emitted toward the planets and Earth."

Saudi Arabia's north-west desert covered in snow after unusual winter storm. A powerful storm bringing sub-zero temperatures has transformed parts of the Saudi Arabian desert into a winter wonderland. Residents of Tabuk, 193 kilometres from the Red Sea, awoke to see the region's dry desert coated in white snow, leaving many in awe.

I-5 over the Grapevine reopens after 36-hour closure due to snow. Some 36 hours after a fierce and cold storm battered Southern California, Interstate 5 over the Grapevine finally reopened Friday morning [12/27/2019] just before 11 a.m. On Christmas Day, a frigid storm from the Gulf of Alaska delivered low-elevation snow to the Tehachapi Mountains, causing a traffic nightmare along a highly traveled stretch of I-5 that passes between the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles. The roadway was closed between Parker Road in Castaic and Grapevine Road in Kern County.

San Francisco ties cold record as Bay Area freezes. If you thought Thanksgiving Day was unusually cold this year in San Francisco, you were correct. In fact, it tied a century-old record. The high temperature in the city on Thursday was forty-eight degrees. That tied a record high temperature for the coldest date for San Francisco in the month of November. That record had stood unchallenged since November 27th, 1896, when it last happened.

CHP pacing vehicles on Interstate 5 due to snow. A day of miserable travel conditions continued into the evening as the California Highway Patrol said it was pacing vehicles from the Kern County and Los Angeles line to 25 miles south of Bakersfield due to snow.

Southern California gets a white Thanksgiving with several inches of snow. It was a white Thanksgiving in Southern California, as a "weather whiplash" storm dumped several inches of snow in some regions — and helped to extinguish a wildfire, according to a new report. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in some parts of the Antelope Valley, at the western tip of the Mojave Desert, The Los Angeles Times reported. Over the last two days, Lancaster has seen 4 to 5 inches of snow and 3 inches fell in nearby Palmdale, the paper reported.

Global Warming and the pause was driven by changes in cloud cover, not CO2. Clouds cover two-thirds of the Earths surface, reflecting around 30% of the total energy from the Sun back to space. A small change in cloud cover can easily warm or cool the planet, like a giant pop-up shade-sail. This, on its own, explains all the warming that occurred from 1986 [to] 2000. It explains the pause. We don't know why clouds decreased, but we know it wasn't due to CO2, which kept rising relentlessly year after year, and even faster after the turn of the century. Something else is driving cloud formation, or density or longevity, and the global climate modelers don't know what that is.

Temperature drops more than 50 degrees as 'all-out blizzard' sets sights on Dakotas. A "potentially historic" fall snowstorm is set to wallop a large stretch of the country — evolving into an "all-out blizzard" as it passes over the Dakotas and sending an arctic blast into much of the northern US, forecasters predict. Denver was downright balmy on Wednesday with a high in the lower 80s — but the temperature had already plummeted into the upper 20s by 1 a.m. as snow began to fall, according to Accuweather. From 1 to 3 inches of snow is expected to fall in the Mile High City on Thursday [10/10/2019]. A similar drastic change happened in Rapid City, South Dakota, which reached a high of 80 degrees Tuesday — but the mercury dipped 40 degrees Wednesday, the weather service reported.



Australia Shows No Warming Since 1876. There are 25 locations in Australia with daily temperature data going back before 1890. This graph shows all 1,389,419 daily maximum temperature readings at those locations since 1876. The actual waveform is a 120 year long cycle. The hottest year was 1902 and the second hottest was 2018. Australia was cold during the 1970s ice age scare, just like everywhere else.

Earliest Spokane snowfall in almost 100 years; more snow in Cascades. In general, it seems the snow in Eastern Washington wasn't as widespread Sunday [9/29/2019] as expected. Even still, there were a few impressive snow totals. Here in the Pacific Northwest, this weather maker, AKA storm system, even dropped a light trace of snow in Spokane Saturday, with 1-4" to come Sunday. This made it the earliest snowfall in the area in almost 100 years!



Do We Face Global Cooling or an Ice Age? There appears to be a 20-year cycle in the Arctic to begin with. The mere fact that at times the Northwest Passage has been ice-free and ice blocked proves there is a cycle to absolutely everything. The Arctic has not always been frozen. There are documented accounts from 1817 when the ice melted. The point is nature functions in a cyclical manner — hello, remember four seasons? I do NOT believe we are heading into an "Ice Age" of such a dramatic duration. All the data clearly shows that we are in a declining trend with each warming peak being less than the former. Anyone who thinks humans have caused this last warming period just listens to propaganda and ignores all the historical evidence. There is ABSOLUTELY no period in history absent of a cycle — NONE!

The Next Great Extinction Event Will Not Be Global Warming — It Will Be Global Cooling. Cold, not heat, is by far the greater killer of humanity. Today, cool and cold weather kills about 20 times as many people as warm and hot weather. Excess Winter Deaths, defined as more deaths in the four winter months than equivalent non-winter months, total over two million souls per year, in both cold and warm climates. Earth is colder-than-optimum for humanity, and currently-observed moderate global warming increases life spans.



Climate Alarmists Foiled: No U.S. Warming Since 2005. When American climate alarmists claim to have witnessed the effects of global warming, they must be referring to a time beyond 14 years ago. That is because there has been no warming in the United States since at least 2005, according to updated data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In January 2005, NOAA began recording temperatures at its newly built U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). USCRN includes 114 pristinely maintained temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states. [...] The USCRN has eliminated the need to rely on, and adjust the data from, outdated temperature stations. Strikingly, as shown in the graph [left], USCRN temperature stations show no warming since 2005 when the network went online. If anything, U.S. temperatures are now slightly cooler than they were 14 years ago.

A Short List Of Facts Global Warming Alarmists Don't Want To Face. The U.S. hasn't warmed since 2005. America isn't the entire world. But the alarmists gleefully point out regional heatwaves and the "hottest day on record" when cities endure summer scorchers. So let's look at the data. The U.S. Climate Reference Network, "a sophisticated climate-observing network specifically designed and deployed for quantifying climate change on a national scale," has found there's been no warming in the U.S. going back to 2005. In fact, says meteorologist Anthony Watts, the "little known data from the state-of-the-art" operation, "(which never seems to make it into NOAA's monthly 'state of the climate' reports) show that for the past nine months, six of them were below normal." The data also tell us 2019's average has been cooler than 2005's, the first year of the data set.

300 feet of ice have accumulated since World War II.

WWII Plane Discovered Under 300 Feet of Ice in Greenland. [Scroll down] It was indeed a long-lost p-38 that the team had discovered, residing under 300 feet of Greenland ice. Which means the ice sheet in that particular region has [...] grown!?!? By an average 4 feet per year since 1942. Greenland's 1930s ice melt rates were at least equal to today's. In 80 years there has been zero net ice loss.

Colorado Snowpack Is 40 Times Above Normal Following Summer Solstice Storm. On June 21, a freak snowstorm dropped up to 20 inches of snow on parts of Colorado, adding to an already substantial snow season, which since January has seen snow totals in Colorado at more than 750 percent above normal. The recent snow has ballooned that number to over 4,000 percent above normal. A large part of that percentage is because snow is normally completely absent by June, and this year's abnormally cold temperatures have helped preserve vast amounts of snow that fell earlier in the year.

Colorado's snowpack is 40 times normal after rare summer solstice dump. On summer's opening day, up to 20 inches of snow buried the high terrain of the Colorado Rockies, boosting the state's snowpack to extraordinary levels for the time of year. The solstice flakes marked a continuation of a snowy stretch that began in January and February and lingered through spring. Even before the solstice snow, The Denver Post wrote, the state's snowpack was "in virtually every numerical sense ... off the charts." At the time, the snowpack was 751 percent above normal.

Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy, SNOWY Days of Summer. The summer solstice passed a few days ago, the longest day of the year with the most sunshine. Only a couple of weeks before July 4th, thoughts are on hitting the beach or pool, with the only worry being about whether sunscreen is going to save your life or kill you. But not this year. Portions of Colorado are under "a winter weather advisory this weekend" as reported by the Denver Post, with "snowfall expected in the mountains." Wait a minute, it's officially summer, isn't it? This is not just a few snow flurries. "Snowfall of 2-6 inches is expected this weekend for altitudes about 9,000 feet, and slush could accumulate along mountain passes. Some road closures have been issued due to adverse weather conditions." Such a forecast is common in January, but not in late June.

Montana Lost 37,000 Cattle To Brutal Winter. Montana ranchers lost more than 37,000 cattle due to weather-related causes in 2018, according to data released by the Farm Service Agency. The Billings Gazette reported Sunday [6/16/2019] the federal Livestock Indemnity Program paid out $11.1 million for the loss of 37,352 cattle in Montana in 2018. Ranchers and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) say there were more weather-related cattle deaths that did not qualify for compensation.

Endless Failure Of Climate Doomsday Tales. On June 29, 2017, the Dailymail in UK ran an article headlined "Four years to save the Earth: 2020 is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe, experts claim in chilling commentary." Two years later and halfway to deadline, the earth has not changed much. If anything, the El Niño of the 2016-17 season gave way for much cooler temperatures across the globe and the past two years have been colder than 2016. This is just one of the many climate doomsday news articles that gets published in our mainstream news media every single day.

[The first] weekend of summer [is] looking a lot like the middle of winter in Colorado and Montana. The summer season in the Northern Hemisphere officially arrived on Friday [6/21/2019], but there were some regions in the United States that apparently didn't get the memo and spent the first day of summer trapped in a winter wonderland. While some may fire up the barbecues and spend time doing outdoor activities this weekend, others will have to bundle up to avoid the cold over the next few days.

Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling. "We see a cooling trend," said Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center. "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."

Aspen's Warnin' Warminites are Chillin'. Remember those predictions that polar bears and snow would soon be extinct? Well, here in Aspen and throughout the Colorado mountains, snowpack this spring is nearly 500% of normal. That's not a typo. It's almost five times normal. The ski mountain at Aspen has reopened for skiing every weekend in June, including this weekend. Even the locals — a pretty discerning bunch — say we had a season beyond epic.

National Park Quietly Removes 'Climate Change' Warning After Years of Heavy Snow. The National Park Service for the Glacier National Park has quietly removed a sign saying that the glaciers would disappear in 2020 due to climate change.The park experienced snowfall that was 'above average' in recent years upended computer model projections that NPS based their claim that the glaciers "will all be gone by the year 2020[.]"

150 lakes in the Tahoe Basin are still frozen, and it's June. With the Sierra Nevada wrapped in the claws of winter through May, the mountain range is blanketed in a hefty snowpack. Many mountain lakes are still frozen solid even though it's the first week of June and the summer tourism season is kicking off. In the Tahoe Basin specifically, an estimated 150 lakes are solid or covered in thick sheets of ice with their edges just beginning to melt. "The rangers I have who are in the high country have pretty much concluded anything over 7,000 feet in elevation is still frozen," says Don Lane, supervisory recreation forester for the U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe unit. "Lake Tahoe is at 6,200 feet, and the lakes above it in the mountains are all ice."

10 Of 10 Coastal Antarctic Stations Show Zero Warming Over Past Decades. Failed Scientists Need To Resign. Over the past few years, climate alarmists have increasingly been resorting to weather-ambulance chasing, which has necessitated the trotting of the globe in the search of weather anomalies to behold as proof of man-made climate change. But one place they have been avoiding like the plague is Antarctica as a number of studies have been showing the opposite of what what predicted earlier has been happening down at the South Pole, except for volcanic activity beneath parts of the Antarctic ice shelf.

Australia sees 'rare' snowfall in subtropical Sunshine State of Queensland. Ferocious weather has lashed a 600-mile stretch of coastline in eastern Australia prompting emergency warnings from the authorities as snow fell in subtropical Queensland. Residents near the town of Stanthorpe, 135 miles south-west of Brisbane, had a wintry surprise with the first significant snowfall in the state of Queensland since 2015.

The Summer of Climate Change Discontent. Climate change will be another source of discontent for Democrats as their predictions once again get buried under a snowpack of reality. My local paper, the left-wing Denver Post, reports: "Water content of Colorado's snowpack raises flood concerns, with levels peaking at 728 percent in the San Juans." Imagine that, snowpack over seven times more than normal. How can that be with global warming broiling the planet, with only a decade before Earth burns to a crisp, at least according to a former bartender from the Bronx.

California snowpack 202% of average for this time of year. The amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada is even larger than the 2017 snowpack that pulled the state out of a five-year drought, California water officials said.

Why Climate Skepticism Thrives. Japan's monthly mean temperatures have shown no significant warming in 40 years. North America had one of its highest snowfall years in 2018. The Indian city of Chennai recorded its historic high way back in 2003. Hundreds of cities in North America recorded their historic lows in 2018, beating even 80-year records. Satellite measurements of temperature (generally free from biases common to ground instruments) reveal no significant global warming in the past 18 years. When the climate doomsayers themselves acknowledge this hiatus, why would anyone believe their apocalyptic warnings? And what about recent research by scientists who study the sun? They predict that the next two solar cycles will be the most inactive in recent history, akin to the cycles that caused the Little Ice Age in the 17th century. In all likelihood, even if we escape that devastating experience, there will be no warming to levels preached by alarmists and the mainstream media.

Drop in global temps 'almost a slam dunk'. Climate Depot's exclusive round up of global cooling predictions.

Mammoth Mountain to Stay Open Into August After Recording Its Snowiest May Ever. After receiving a record amount of snow for May, Mammoth Mountain on Friday announced it would be extending its ski and snowboard season into August. Only two previous seasons have lasted into August — in 2017 and 1995 — according to Mammoth Snowman, a site that tracks resort news. With one week left in the month, Mammoth has already received 29 inches of snow, the most ever recorded in the month of May. The total beats the previous record of 28 inches, set in May 2015.



Climate and the fate of corn. It is a remarkable thing that the U.K. and Irish parliaments were able to hypnotize themselves and pass climate emergency legislation when the southern half of the planet has not warmed at all in 120 years. For example, this record of Cape Leeuwin (courtesy of Erl Happ), on the southwest corner of the Australian landmass, shows recent January mean maximum temperature back below the 120 [year] average: [Chart]

The trillions of dollars wasted on global warming hysteria, properly deployed, could have improved and saved many lives. In the developing world, the installation of electrical energy grids has been stalled for decades due to false global warming alarmism. Last winter England and Wales experienced over 50,000 excess winter deaths. That British per-capita excess winter death rate was [about] three times the average excess winter death rate of the USA and Canada. [...] The funds wasted on baseless global warming hysteria, anti-fossil-fuel fanaticism and destructive green energy schemes, properly deployed, could have saved or improved the lives of many millions of people.

Global Warming is Going the way of Russia Collusion. The last thing we expect mid-spring is snow. Yet that's just what we have. As the Weather Channel reports, "It may be late April, but Winter Storm Xyler will make you forget that it is spring in the Midwest this weekend as it is expected to bring some unusually heavy late season snowfall." Snow is heading to New York as well, despite the state's all-out effort to combat global warming by attempting to ban plastic straws and now hot dogs. From the New York Post, "Upstate NY may get up to 3 inches of snow this weekend."

Questioning Global Warming. The question should be asked: are we looking at the wrong phenomenon and should be debating global cooling? A number of climate scientists believe "another major cooling" is likely to happen in this century. Despicably and treacherously GWCC [global warming/climate change] has overtaken all rational discussions about all forms of energy, electricity and the weather. If you question GWCC you are a "climate denier," or worse you're viciously attacked without fully vetting the issue of whether or not man is causing anthropogenic GWCC.

'Historic' blizzard may drop up to 2 feet of snow across Central US. It may be April but winter's icy grip remains firm across the central U.S., where a potential blockbuster storm is set to bring an onslaught of heavy snow and blizzard conditions through Friday [4/12/2019]. Blizzard warnings are now in effect in 6 states, stretching from Colorado all the way up to Minnesota, according to Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean.

Blizzard forecast for Midwest could break April snow records. It appears winter isn't finished quite yet. A major blizzard is expected to dump heavy snow on parts of the Midwest in the coming days, possibly setting new records for the month of April.

Climate Junk Science and the Utter Nonsense of Twelve Years to Destruction. Yes, of course climate changes. There are cycles when the globe gets warmer and others when earth cools. Yet notice that even the Left increasingly has backtracked from the term "Global Warming." Now it is "Climate Change." Too many polar vortexes.

A Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democratic Roster. [Scroll down] Curiously, in a recent survey of Millennials that sought to determine the top twenty things that worry them, climate change did not make the list. And to anyone paying attention, global cooling is very likely a graver danger.

Baby It's Cold Outside.

• A "bomb cyclone" last week slammed the Rockies and Midwest with hurricane-speed winds and abundant snowfall. As 97-MPH gusts struck Colorado Springs, marooned passengers huddled in horror inside a shuttered Denver International Airport.

• At this point in 2017, Lake Superior was just 7.3 percent covered in ice; 2018's figure: 49 percent. Lake Superior was 94 percent iced over on March 8. This was the first time in four years that the largest Great Lake's ice coverage exceeded 90 percent, the Detroit Free Press reported. Not so far away, Lake Erie was 20 percent ice a year ago. Today: 94.1 percent. Overall, the Great Lakes have gone from 27.8 percent ice in 2018 to 74.6 percent in 2019.

• Lake Erie recently experienced a sort of frozen tsunami, as huge chunks of wind-blown ice washed onto the shore at Hamburg, New York. Footage of this phenomenon is fascinating and terrifying, especially as the solid water violates homes, marinas, and other structures in and around the lake.

• Several polar vortexes pumped Arctic air into the Midwest and parked it there for days. This drove air temperatures to 22 degrees below zero in Chicago and minus-28 Fahrenheit in Minneapolis on January 30.

How Do We Know What We Know? As I sit here writing, a terrible thing is happening. It started mid-week, but there's nothing being reported on the national news. No TV cameras or on-the-street interviews. [...] This was a hard winter and much snow accumulated and ice formed on all the rivers. Then suddenly the weather turned and most of that H2O turned liquid. What didn't melt floated high-speed in chunks the size of cars, ripping out grain elevators and barns, tearing into houses and businesses. I saw one picture of a kitchen filled to the tops of the counters with dirt-laden ice. [...] But what has bothered me the most is the realization that the news tells us so little of what is happening in the world. The TV news rattles on and on 24-7 and not a single story about the heart of this country and the suffering and struggle of our fellow Americans. Not until the story was three days old does it even make honorable mention.

Living in the Real World. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to those who criticized her hypocrisy as a massive consumer of fossil fuels by saying she is just "living in the world." Well, sort of. In her heavily-cocooned world, it is considered noble to speculate about banning air travel and murdering all of America's cows. Elsewhere — in what some would call the real world — people have to worry about getting those cattle through the winter. Ocasio-Cortez is obsessed with hypothetical global warming, but here in the Midwest we are nearing the end of a brutal winter. For those who live in cities record snowfalls have been an inconvenience, but on the prairie they threaten lives and livelihoods. Try-State Livestock News has an article headlined "March Spring Storm in Midwest Causing Major, Ongoing Issues for Ranchers" that includes remarkable photos and video.

Global Cooling: The Real Climate Threat. Observations of sunspot activity at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicate that there has been a lull in solar activity during the past 18 years — the same period during which there has been no significant warming, confirming a direct correlation between solar activity and global average temperature. Some climate scientists say another major cooling is likely soon. Their claims are not outlandish. Evidence for the lull in solar activity is so clear that even NASA admits the cooling trend. Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center commented, "We see a cooling trend[.] ... High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold." Most recent scientific studies on solar cycles suggest that the next solar cycles (25 and 26) could be similar to the Maunder and Dalton minima that plunged much of the world into disastrous cold.

New All-time Record Low Temperature in Illinois. An Arctic outbreak in late January 2019 led to widespread bitterly cold temperatures across much of the Upper Midwest, including Illinois. On the morning of Jan. 31, the cooperative weather observer at Mt. Carroll, located in Carroll County, reported a temperature of -38 degrees. After a comprehensive review, the State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) unanimously voted to validate the -38 degrees reading as the new official state record minimum temperature. This committee ensures that the observation is meteorologically plausible, is within a range that the reporting instrument can detect, and that the instrument is in proper working order.

A February to remembrrr in L.A.: It never even reached 70 degrees. Home restaurant's sprawling outdoor patio in Los Feliz, set under a canopy of large trees, was designed to take advantage of California's temperate climate and typically sunny skies. But this February has been so cold that the restaurant scrambled to set up extra heaters outside the Craftsman-style house to keep diners and workers warm during the record-setting cold winter. [...] For the first time since forecasters began recording data — at least 132 years — the mercury did not reach 70 degrees in downtown Los Angeles for the entire month of February.

Arctic air mass expected to hit US, bringing bitter cold temperatures. The National Weather Service in Glasgow, Mont., said people may experience symptoms of frostbite in 10 minutes and wind chills could "dip into the minus-50s by Sunday morning [3/3/2019]."

Record-setting snowstorm buries parts of Arizona. A winter storm in the U.S. Southwest that dumped snow on Arizona made travel treacherous on Friday [2/22/2019] as strong winds pushed powdery snow into drifts and forecasters predicted the blizzard would continue into the night.

Seattle is having its snowiest February in 70 years — and more is on the way. After a weekend snowstorm pummeled the normally mild Northwestern city — making this month the city's snowiest February since 1949, according to AccuWeather — another one-two punch is expected this week. The next snowstorm is forecast to hit Sunday night [2/10/2019], bringing 1-2 inches of snow, AccuWeather said, and another would pile on 3-6 inches Monday afternoon [2/11/2019] into Tuesday. The snow will ride a wave of record cold: High temperatures were expected in the upper 20s to low 30s, with wind chills from 17 to 22 degrees.

A potentially crippling snowstorm is headed for Seattle. Earlier this week, Seattle was hit with a snowstorm that shut down the city. Some neighborhoods received about half a foot of snow in a city that averages only 6.8 inches in a year. Officially, the Sea-tac airport — which sits only about 400 feet above sea level — received a storm total of about 2.7 inches of snow. But Monday's [2/4/2019] storm may soon seem like just a light dusting after a snowstorm forecast to be even larger slams the region Friday through Saturday.

Lake Michigan Has Completely Frozen Over Amid Dangerous Temperatures. Lake Michigan is freezing over as extreme cold weather hits parts of the U.S. this week. The Midwest, from the Dakotas to Western New York, is experiencing some of the coldest temperatures to hit the region in more than two decades, according to The Weather Channel — and the lake is feeling the effects. As wind chill temperatures in Chicago dropped as low as -51 degrees Farenheit on Wednesday [1/30/2019], according to the National Weather Service, parts of Lake Michigan turned to ice.

Record Cold Forces Rethink on Global Warming. Headlines around the world are reporting exceptionally frigid conditions and unusually high levels of snowfall in recent weeks. They tout these events as records, but few people understand how short the record actually is — usually less than 50 years, a mere instant in Earth's 4.6-billion year history. The reality is that, when viewed in a wider context, there is nothing unusual about current weather patterns. Despite this fact, the media — directly, indirectly, or by inference — often attribute the current weather to global warming. Yes, they now call it climate change. But that is because activists realized, around 2004, that the warming predicted by the computer models on which the scare is based was not actually happening. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continued to increase, but the temperature stopped increasing. So, the evidence no longer fit the theory.

Cold weather kills more people than hot weather.

Pre-med student, 18, freezes to death in -51F wind chill-as another 11 people die across the Midwest. The deadly polar vortex wreaking havoc across the United States has left at least 12 people dead, including a college student who was found in the freezing cold at the University of Iowa. Authorities said the body of Gerald Belz was found behind an academic hall just before 3am on Wednesday [1/30/2019] by campus police. The 18-year-old was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. While officials believe his death was related to dangerously low temperatures at the time he was found, officials have not given a specific cause of death.

Extreme Cold Breaks Daily Temperature Records Across Illinois. Wind chills dipped as low as 56 degrees below zero in northern Illinois as bitter cold weather moved into Illinois.

The Editor says...

Somewhere in the world, it must be blazing hot, if the global average temperature really is going up while it's 26 below in Illinois.

Frigid in Chicago Must Mean Global Warming. Weather can still be predicted a few days to a week in the future. Climate not so much, hence the convenient renaming of global warming to climate change. In fact, climate is impossible to predict. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change explains why. "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible." Interestingly the previously available reference for this quote has disappeared from the IPCC website with a message "page not found." An inconvenient truth safely hidden away? Since weather can be predicted and climate cannot, it's convenient to use the term climate change rather than weather change. Climate becomes a convenient straw man for the man-made global warming movement.



Today's Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends). Hey, remember when, a decade ago, Climate alarmists were saying that children being born at the time would never see snow? Yeah, fooled them, huh?

Donald Trump Keeps Mocking Global Warming Leftists with Record Cold Temperatures. President Donald Trump continued ridiculing climate change alarmists with the news this week of record cold temperatures in the Midwest. "What [...] is going on with Global Waming? [sic]" Trump asked on Twitter. "Please come back fast, we need you!" The president noted that windchill temperatures were reaching -60 degrees in the Midwest, with expectations of even colder temperatures in some places.

Chicago's record for coldest temperature ever could fall as polar vortex has city 'in the crosshairs'. In Chicago, the coldest temperatures of the year will arrive midweek. After seeing a high around 34 on Monday [1/28/2019] at O'Hare International Airport, temperatures will drop to near zero before the end of the day, according to the National Weather Service. By Tuesday night [1/29/2019], temperatures are expected to take another plunge, to 23 below zero, flirting with Chicago's coldest temperature ever: minus 27 on Jan. 20, 1985.

How cold is it? Sub-zero temperatures are freezing parts of Niagara Falls. It's so cold on the East Coast parts of it are freezing over. If you don't believe us, just take a look at Niagara Falls. According to CNN, visitors captured video of the falls' rushing waters coming to a halt as the sub-zero temperatures affected the Northeast.

City of Cleveland issues extreme cold weather advisory. The City of Cleveland has issued an extreme cold weather advisory due to the upcoming arctic blast.

First 'Polar Vortex' Of 2019 Touted As Evidence Of Global Warming. It's Not. Large swaths of the U.S. are experiencing the first "polar vortex" event of 2019, and The New York Times is out with an article suggesting cold snaps are becoming more frequent because of global warming. [...] The Times' "polar vortex" article, published Saturday [1/19/2019], rests heavily on two scientists who "suspect that the more frequent polar vortex breakdowns can be tied to climate change." [...] Media outlets usually turn to Cohen and Francis during the winter months when brutal cold and snowfall can make it hard to convince people the earth is warming. Both scientists regularly argue human greenhouse gas emissions are driving more frequent, bone-chilling arctic blasts. This is not a widely accepted theory.

Massive blizzard impacting California mountains, Up to 100 inches of snow possible. A large storm is coming ashore on the California coast and it's bringing flooding rains and heavy mountain snow. Above 5,000 feet, the snow is being measured in feet. Multiple feet.

Trump uses winter storm to mock climate change on Twitter and warns people to stay inside. President Donald Trump used the weekend's winter storm to mock global warming on Twitter as he warned citizens to stay inside. 'Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold,' the president tweeted Sunday morning [1/20/2019]. 'Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn't be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!' he added.

Brutally cold temps to hit NYC following double dose of snow. Back-to-back snowstorms are set to wallop the Big Apple on Thursday [1/17/2019] and Saturday evenings — and the icing on top will be Sunday's wind chills of as low as minus-20 degrees. One to 3 inches of snow will blanket the city overnight Thursday, making for a slippery Friday morning commute, meteorologists warned. Then, Saturday night, the "big storm" will hit, said AccuWeather meteorologist John Feerick. "That will produce a lot of heavy snow."

Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place? Would it surprise you to learn the greatest global two-year cooling event of the last century just occurred? From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. [...] The 2016-18 Big Chill was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average.

Global Temperatures drop for the third year in a row:

UAH Global Temperature Update for December 2018: +0.25 deg. C. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2018 was +0.25 deg. C, down a little from +0.28 deg. C in November.

Heavy Snow in Germany, Austria Causes Chaos for Travelers. Heavy snow caused travel chaos in parts of Germany and Austria as authorities closed roads and train routes because of avalanche danger and airports reported weather-related cancelations Saturday [1/5/2019].

Recently Dropping Global Temperatures Demonstrate IPCC Claims are Impossible. When you put the claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in perspective, you get a very different picture that defies logic. I decided to do this because of their recent hysterical claims in Special Report 15 (SR-15) designed to frighten and bully the world into completely unnecessary and enormously expensive environmental and energy policies. [...] Even some members of the IPCC admit it is not about climate but involves an excuse for ideological actions such as a transfer of wealth. However, the majority of the IPCC and its proponents would disagree. They would claim the concern and demand for action are based on science set out in the AR5 Working Group I Report, The Physical Science Basis. Well, let's examine what they say. [...]

Climate Change: The Poetry of Dreams and the Prose of Reality. In the mid-1970s, the majority supported global cooling with the same vigor and urgency as they support global warming today. The cover of the April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek proclaimed "The Coming Ice Age." In the article "The Cooling World," the magazine suggested the disasters similar to those predicted in the government report. In the June 24, 1974, issue of Time magazine, the article "Another Ice Age" painted a bleak picture for the future of our planet: "When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing (emphasis mine).



How Would You Prefer To Spend Your Winter? Dear Leftists: Please show us how committed you are to stop global warming: Turn the master switch of your fusebox OFF for the winter. Do it for the planet!

New U.S. Climate Report a 'Scientific Embarrassment'. The past two winters have been especially cold over North America. November 2018 set low temperature records across the contiguous U.S., with three winter storms as of November 28 and the coldest Thanksgiving Week in one hundred years. Among some of the cold records: 19[°]F was recorded at New York City's Central Park on November 22, which was the park's coldest Thanksgiving since 1871; on the same day, the temperature at the top of Mount Washington in northern New Hampshire fell to -26[°]F, the coldest ever recorded for November. This beat the previous record of -20[°]F on Nov. 30, 1958.



New U.S. Climate Report a 'Scientific Embarrassment'. While NASA's claim that there has been slightly more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8 deg Fahrenheit) of warming since 1880 is likely correct, there has been no additional warming since the new millennium. This is referred to as the "Global Warming Hiatus" by the climate modeling community. Contrary to the outputs of climate models that project continued warming, the Earth's climate appears to be cooling down, with increasing cold weather extremes worldwide in the last six years.

Historic Snowstorm Blankets Chicago Area; Thousands Without Power, Hundreds Of Flights Canceled. One of the worst November snowstorms in Chicago history hammered the city and suburbs Sunday night [11/25/2018] and early Monday, dumping more than 7 inches in the city, and up to a foot in some northwest suburbs.

'Mini Ice Age' Looms As NASA Scientist Warns Lack Of Sunspots Could Bring Record Cold. Our sun was not expected to head into a solar minimum until around 2020, but it appears to be heading in that direction a little early which could prove to be bad news for warm weather lovers. But a prolonged solar minimum could mean a "mini ice age." The last time there was a prolonged solar minimum, it did, in fact, lead to a mini ice-age which was scientifically known as the Maunder minimum[.]

Climate-change Narrative Challenged by Unusual Weather & Scientific Studies. [Scroll down] This is the second year in a row in which South Texas has received snow earlier than New York or Boston. Last year, a December 8 snowstorm blasted much of the Deep South before turning east and north to wreak havoc on people more used to such conditions. If the NASA data is correct, earlier snows and cooler temperatures could be the "new normal" in the coming years. And NASA isn't the only agency reporting things that the IPCC and the mainstream media don't want you to hear. A study published in December of last year by UC-San Diego, which monitored a decrease in ultra-violet flux on the Sun's surface, is also suggesting that the sun may be entering a period of low sunspot activity, which could lead to a Solar Minimum in the near future. Across the ocean, another study done by Northumbria University in Great Britain is also predicting a Grand Minimum, similar to the Maunder Minimum.

Early snowfall stokes Colorado skiers, clouds climate debate. A heavy autumn snowfall has ski resorts across Colorado holding some of their earliest opening days in a decade or more, stoking skiers and fueling another snowball fight over climate change. Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek plan to open this week, shaving several days off their anticipated starts to the ski season and marking the first time that both resorts have launched ahead of time in 10 years, said Vail chief operating officer Doug Lovell.

Texas Sees Snow Before New York on Near-Record Cold in South. Houston reported its earliest snowfall ever, beating places like New York City and Boston as a cold snap descended over Texas. George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston set a new record for the first observed snowfall, breaking one set on Nov. 23, 1979, according to a Twitter post from the National Weather Service.

A Mini Ice Age? NASA Scientist Warns That Diminished Solar Activity Could Mean The Coldest Winter In Modern Times. Solar activity has dramatically slowed down, and experts are warning that we could potentially be facing the coldest winter that any of us have ever seen as a result. Throughout 2018, scientists have been troubled by the lack of sunspots. When the sun is very active, there tends to be a lot of sunspots, and when the sun is less active there are fewer sunspots. Since solar changes are the number one driver of climate change, many believe that the lack of solar activity that we have been witnessing means that a bitterly cold winter is ahead for us. In fact, it is being reported that NASA has discovered that the thermosphere has been cooling and shrinking significantly. In the short-term that could mean a rough winter, but in the long-term there is a very real possibility that we could be headed for a "mini ice age".



UAH Global Temperature Update for September, 2018: +0.14°C. Globally, the coolest September in the last 10 years.

Why Some Scientists Say Global Warming Is Out and Global Cooling Is In. In a world riddled with climate-change doomsday predictions, a small but growing number of scientists are saying the highly touted climate models predicting steadily increasing global temperature due to humans' carbon-dioxide emissions are wrong and that Earth could soon face something even more dire: global cooling. One such climate scientist is Valentina Zharkova, an astrophysicist at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. Zharkova and her team of researchers say that based on mathematical models of the Sun's magnetic activity, it's likely Earth will experience decreasing magnetic waves over a 33-year period beginning in 2021. Zharkova is not alone.

NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity. The climate alarmists just can't catch a break. NASA is reporting that the sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age; and Earth's atmosphere is responding in kind. So, start pumping out that CO2, everyone. We're going to need all the greenhouse gases we can get. "We see a cooling trend," said Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center. "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."



450 Graphs That Show No Warming For future reference.

285+ Papers Show Global Cooling in the 1970s. What follows is a list of over 285 papers published during the 1960s, 70s and 80s showing there was a near consensus of an imminent global cooling — a point that some activist scientists falsely dispute.



Climate models that can't predict climate. The amount of warming we have experienced is mild by historical standards and it's manageable. Here's another graph of the amount of warming since 1850. [Chart] What we see is what is at least in part a natural warming trend with no dramatic temperature increase. It's tiny compared to what we deal with on a day-to-day, location-to-location, season-to-season basis. The warming isn't significant and it doesn't correlate very strongly with CO2. We can also see that the temperature today is very cold on average in terms of the history of the earth. We're not at all in unprecedented territory temperature-wise or CO2-wise. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution has risen from .03% of the atmosphere to .04%. Historically it was 20 times that and these were very fertile periods of the earth.

The Next Ice Age. While most people still worry about global warming, I am more concerned about the next Ice Age. A glaciation would present a serious problem for survival of our present civilization, akin to a nuclear winter that many worried about 30 years ago.

Scientists Observe Coldest Temperatures Ever on Earth's Surface. A team from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder have identified the East Antarctic Plateau — a massive, empty expanse the size of Australia that begins near the South Pole — as the coldest place on the planet. The East Antarctic Plateau sits some 3,500 m (11,500 ft) above sea level and the air over the Plateau is extremely still, dry and thin, providing an ideal environment for extreme cold. "In this area, we see periods of incredibly dry air, and this allows the heat from the snow surface to radiate into space more easily," said Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado Boulder, lead author of the study.

Antarctica [is] actually colder than scientists once believed. Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica's ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius (minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter, a new study finds. The results could change scientists' understanding of just how low temperatures can get at Earth's surface, according to the researchers.

Climate Change Update From Fly-Over. It's frosty here this morning, 46 degrees at 5:00 am to be exact. It was just 38 degrees at the same time 60 miles due north of here. I double checked and yes, it is June 6th. No wonder the Pope is meeting with oil company executives from around the world to discuss climate change. After all, who would know more about the science of climatology than the man of God who is likewise an economic expert?

Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible? Since 1997, the warming of the Earth has been too low, by a factor of eight, compared to the warming expected according to the claims of the believers in global warming as published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. All the claims that global warming is advancing according to predictions are simply lies. The measured temperature data, according to the most accurate method of measuring the Earth's temperature, provide no support for global warming theory. The strong global warming from 1910 to 1940, when CO2 was not an issue, cannot be explained by the computer models, casting further doubt on the theory. But global warming is a huge bonanza for the scientists promoting the idea.

Don't Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling. NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you'd know it, since that wasn't deemed news.

Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place? Would it surprise you to learn the greatest global two-year cooling event of the last century just occurred? From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C — also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). [...] This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures.

There Is No Unprecedented Global Modern Warming. You have heard the wailing and screaming about President Trump's exit from the Paris Climate Accords, but do you understand that the agreement, never ratified by the U.S. government (NOT a treaty) accomplished nothing at all to modify or change the climate. The climate of the earth has been changing mildly for millions of years, and there is no unprecedented Global-Scale modern warming. The "Accords" were designed to transfer large amounts of wealth from the rich nations to the poor nations, ostensibly to allow them to save themselves from that non-existent unprecedented warming.

Antarctic Temperature Data Challenges Warming Claims. Antarctica, considered by many climate alarmists to be a harbinger of future climate conditions for the rest of the globe, apparently is not warming as fast as the doomsayers thought. In fact, it may not be warming at all, with data suggesting that the continent was much warmer than it is now a century ago. The Japanese Meteorological Agency's research outpost, Showa Station in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land, reports a slight cooling trend, even as atmospheric CO2 levels rose sharply from 1985 until 2017, according to Japanese climate blogger Kirye. But lest you think this is some sort of Japanese climate denial scheme, there are other examples. The Australian research outpost Davis Station also reports no warming trend in six decades. Scientist Andy Oz tweeted, "Australia's Antarctic bases have no trend in temperatures over past 60 years."

More spring snow in Chicago, and forecasters call April's start among coldest in 130 years. Chicago area residents may wake up to snow on the ground Thursday, the latest reminder that winter weather's grip is delaying so many spring rites of passage, from Major League Baseball games to bridge-lifting season on the Chicago River downtown — the parade of boats heading for slips offering the surest sign of warm weather ahead. And if those early morning walks to the bus or train stop weren't convincing enough, forecasters say this is the second-coldest start to April across Chicago in 130 years.

Snow records toppled in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin. The National Weather Service says the 14.9 inches at Minneapolis airport from Friday through Sunday [4/16/2018] set a record for the largest April snowstorm ever there.

Blizzard eases, but snow will continue. Plows roared, snowblowers whirred and shovels clanged as Twin Cities area residents burrowed out Sunday [4/15/2018], even as snow continued to fall and fall. Saturday's rare metro-area blizzard warning had eased into a winter weather advisory for Sunday, with 2 to 4 more inches of snow expected to fall through the day, according to the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. Saturday's blizzard designation, called "historic" by the Weather Service, was the first for the metro area since 1983.

Spring blizzard pounds Midwest; flights canceled, deaths reported. Amid a spring blizzard in the Midwest that prompted hundreds of flights to be canceled Saturday, one runway has reopened at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, officials said Sunday [4/15/2018]. A total of 469 flights had been canceled at the Minnesota airport alone, airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said. All of Saturday's incoming and outgoing flights were canceled because of heavy snowfall and low visibility. The snow was coming down too fast for plows to keep the runways clear or for crews to keep the planes deiced, airport officials said.

Snow could ruin New York Yankee's home opener. Up to six inches of snow is predicted for areas of the East Coast which could impact the New York Yankees home opener on Monday [4/2/2018].

New report reveals a 23 year long pause in stratospheric temperature. A new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) counters media hype over recent warm global temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global warming.

Pennsylvania March Temperatures Declining. It has been ridiculously cold in Philadelphia this month, with afternoon temperatures among the coldest on record. I'm looking out the window watching snow falling. [...] It is cold here again today [3/25/2018], but on this date in 1910 Philadelphia was 82 degrees, and more than half of the US was over 70 degrees. CO2 was 300 PPM at the time.

Spring nor'easter could bury NYC in 15 inches of snow. A spring storm is expected to dump as much as 15 inches of snow on the Big Apple on Wednesday — leaving New Yorkers wondering if they'll ever be able to pack up their winter gear. The late-season strike is the fourth nor-easter to clobber the city in the last three weeks — and led Mayor de Blasio to shut down schools for the day. "Everyone is tired of it," said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dave Samuhel, noting the recent spats of snowfall and below average temperatures.

Approaching 'grand solar minimum' could cause global cooling. There's a lot of evidence mounting that solar cycle 25 will usher in a new grand solar minimum. Since about October 2005, when the sun's magnetic activity went into a sharp fall, solar activity has been markedly lower, with solar cycle 24 being the lowest in over 100 years.

Rare blue ice stacks 'as high as a three-story building' form along Michigan's Great Lakes. In the middle of her work shift Sunday morning [2/25/2018], Tori Burley received a text message from her father that gave her a tingle of excitement: "The blue ice is back!" It had been seven years since Burley, a photographer who grew up in Mackinaw City, Michigan, spotted blue ice chunks along the Straits of Mackinac, the waterway that flows under the Mackinac Bridge, connecting two Great Lakes — Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. "I was at work and I was like, 'I need this day to be done now,'" Burley told Fox News. "The second I could leave I grabbed the kids and I ran up to the lake to take pictures."

Rome blanketed by snow as Arctic storm sets European records. The Arctic storm dubbed the "Beast from the East" saw temperatures across much of Europe fall Monday to their lowest level this winter and even brought a rare snowstorm to Rome, paralyzing the city and giving its residents the chance to ski, sled and build snowmen in its famous parks and piazzas. Rome's schools were ordered closed, while train, plane and bus services were crippled. Italy's civil protection agency even mobilized the army to help clear slush-covered streets as a city used to mild winters was covered by a thick blanket of snow.

Snow-covered beaches? Chilly iguanas? They are part of a mysterious 'hole' in global warming. Frigid iguanas in Florida. Snowball fights on North Carolina's beaches. Recent winters have delivered a bitter chill to the Southeast, reinforcing attitudes among some that global warming is a fraud. But according to a scientific study published this month, the Southeast's colder winter weather is part of an isolated trend, linked to a more wavy pattern in the jet stream that crosses North America. That dipping jet stream allows artic air to plunge into the Southeast. Scientists call this colder weather a "hole" in overall global warming, or a "warming hole."

Bitter cold at Winter Olympics chills global-warming hype. The bone-chilling cold and icy winds in Pyeongchang have contributed to any number of wipe-outs for Olympic skiers and snowboarders, not to mention a public-relations face plant for the climate-change movement. Its dire warnings about how the Winter Olympics face an existential threat from global warming have been all but buried by the flurry of reports about frigid conditions at the 2018 games in South Korea, which are expected to set an Olympic record for cold temperatures. Climate activists have also been frustrated by a lack of global-warming coverage by NBC Sports, prompting a social-media campaign led by Public Citizen, Protect Our Winters and Climate Nexus urging the network to stop the "climate whiteout."

Minneapolis braces for super cold Super Bowl as Great Lakes, Northeast face frigid temperatures. The Great Lakes and Northeast are dealing with the frigid temperatures as Minneapolis braces for super cold Super Bowl. Wind chills this afternoon reached 14 degrees in Boston and New York, 12 degrees in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., minus 2 degrees in Pittsburgh, 4 degrees in Chicago and minus 5 degrees in Minneapolis, where Super Bowl preparations are underway.

Bundle Up the Economy and Brace for Colder Winters. For the foreseeable future, we are likely to see the nasty combination of higher fuel costs and colder winter weather. There are three reasons: Oil supplies look set to get interrupted this year, the dollar is weaker, and activity on the surface of the sun portends a period of frigid winters.

Brand-new US Navy warship trapped in Canada amid cold and ice. A brand-new U.S. Navy warship has not moved from Montreal since Christmas Eve and will spend the winter stuck in Canada due to cold and ice. The USS Little Rock — unveiled in a ceremony on Dec. 16 in Buffalo, New York and attended by nearly 9,000 people — has not moved far since due to adverse weather conditions that kept the warship trapped at bay in Canada, the Toronto Star reported.

Tampa Bay record lows burst pipes, threaten berry and fish farms. In winters past, when they ran the irrigation system at Parkesdale Farms to preserve the berry crop in a protective shell of ice, the icicles measured inches. But on Wednesday night [1/17/2018], one of the coldest nights in years, the icicles hung more than a foot long. "I was a kid the last time I saw this much ice," said Matt Parke, who grew up on his family's 145-acre strawberry farm in Dover and now runs it. The mercury there dropped to 22 degrees, Parke said.

Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F. Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday [1/16/2018].

Begging for Global Warming as Global Cooling Becomes Obvious. As each day passes the evidence climbs, as predicted by scientists (not politicians and Popes), that a steep drop of temperatures would ensue — first dropping temperatures to where they were in the very cold late 1800s and then going down from there to ice age conditions that will threaten a great part of the northern latitudes over the next 10 years. We are not ready for any of this mentally or in any other way thanks to people like former president Obama, the Pope, and let's never forget Al Gore. Some of the most unscrupulous people have been championing the cause of manmade global warming even though the science and actual conditions on the ground have been showing for ten years that there is no such thing as manmade warming. It has been a big snow job, pure propaganda and now the gig is up as it starts snowing in Florida of all places. Now we have temperatures crashing, almost the entire continental United States frozen over, snow accumulating in record amounts and ice forming in the great lakes at breathtaking speed. It is not just record breaking cold but record breaking snow fall that is showing us just how difficult global cooling will be compared to global warming.

Warming Projection May Be One Of The Great Scientific Blunders Of Modern Times. Global warming scientists continue struggling to find an explanation for the nearly 2 decades long global warming pause that has taken hold of the planet since the late 1990s. The most recent temperature spike was due to the natural El Nino event at the equatorial Pacific, and that has disappeared over the last months. Alarmists claim that the global temperature is still 0.5°C above normal, yet it's been so for the past 20 years! The search to explain the unexpected lack of warming is about to get a little tougher as 2018 is poised to see a further cooling across the globe.

Baby, it's cold outside. The brutal cold weather making everybody miserable almost everywhere — the mercury has fallen to the low 70s even in Southern California and into the low 60s in Miami. It has to be blamed on something or somebody, so why not blame it on global warming?

The liberal media have all the facts! Except when they don't. There was an article in my Illinois paper this week that said in Illinois, 2017 was the sixth warmest on record. That's another worthless piece of information unless we see the top five. My guess is that some are in the 1930s, which means that eighty years ago, Illinois was warmer than today, and the theory falls apart. When Al Gore, Michael Mann, and the mayor of Boston say the current record cold is caused by warming, journalists should know that this is pure garbage. These people are trying to cover up their bad predictions, but most journalists just repeat what they are told as if that were factual — because, after all, there is an agenda to push.

The Frozen U.S. Is Paying a Terrible Price for Green Lies. The North-Eastern U.S. is experiencing record-breaking cold. Even the very sharks are dying as they swim. Happily the New York Times is here to put it all in context. It's all further evidence of global warming, of course!

This 'Bitter Cold' Is What Global Warming Looks Like, Explains Al Gore. Yep. Where others might see a crisis, Al Gore has spotted a Rahm-Emanuel-style opportunity to promote his renewables scam. This bitter cold, he wants you to know, isn't a sign that his global warming theory is a busted flush. It's a sign that he's even more right than ever before!

Meteorologist blasts those linking brutal blizzard to climate change. Meteorologist Joe Bastardi had a decidedly unscientific term for the effort to link Thursday's frigid winter storm to human-caused climate change: "witchcraft." "This is flat out insanity and deception now," Mr. Bastardi said Thursday in a tweet. "To tell the public that events that have occurred countless times before with no climate change attribution, is now just that, is not science, [it's] witchcraft."

Phony Prophets: Global Warming. Besides record-breaking cold, alarmists ignore that snowfall has increased for more than a century. Up here in my little slice of paradise, researchers were recently shocked that the snowfall has doubled on Mt. Hunter in the Alaska range since the mid-1800s. In that same time frame, southcentral Alaska has experienced a 117 percent increase in winter snowfall and a 49 percent increase in summer snowfall. In addition, from 1950 to 2011, many coastal Alaskan towns have experienced winter snow increases ranging from 26 percent in Yakutat to 67 percent in Kodiak. On December 6, 2017, in the Chugach mountains I call home, Thompson Pass, experienced one of history's most intense snowfalls at a rate of 10 inches per hour. That's a record even for Thompson Pass which often gets between 600 to 900 inches of snow per year. Additionally, the sea ice improved this year.

Christmas temperatures dip to coldest in decade. Chicago shivered through one of its coldest Christmases in a decade as temperatures plummeted to 2 degrees and more than an inch of snow blanketed the city, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures peaked midnight on Christmas Day at 21 degrees, according to measurements taken at O'Hare International Airport. Christmas 2017 was the coldest since 2008 when temperatures dropped to zero.

Arctic Blast Leaves 200 Million Americans In Record-Smashing, Freezing Temperatures. For those fortunate enough to be spending the holidays somewhere in the southern portion of the United States, it may be difficult to envision just how brutal the recent blast of arctic weather has been for folks living anywhere from Wyoming to Maine. As Weather.com notes this morning, mind-numbing temperatures, which have plunged to nearly -40 degrees in certain cities, are smashing 100-year-old records all across the country.

Deep Freeze Ends a Dreadful 2017 for Climate Activists. It's been a bad year for global warming propagandists, but fear not: Here comes a polar vortex to make it worse for them. The unrelenting Arctic blast arrived on Christmas Eve and it remains the holiday houseguest from Hell that won't leave: Record-breaking cold and snowfall are tormenting the eastern half of the country, and it's only going to get worse.

Trump mocks 'good old Global Warming' as cold spell hits US. President Trump mocked the science behind climate change in a tweet Thursday night that claimed the frigid East Coast could actually use more global warming. "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record," Trump noted about the freezing temperatures in New York and other cities. "Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!" The weather forecasts for New York City have temperatures expected to be below freezing into the New Year.

Record-breaking winter storm blankets Pennsylvania's fourth largest city in more than 4 FEET of snow. It's the whitest Christmas on record for Erie, Pennsylvania — with an astonishing total of snow blanketing the area reaching 58 inches, with a whopping 34 inches hitting on Christmas day. The National Weather Service office in Cleveland says Monday's storm brought 34 inches of snow, an all-time daily snowfall record for Erie. Another 24 inches fell before dawn Tuesday, bringing the total to 53 inches, the greatest two-day total in commonwealth history. The previous record was the 44 inches that fell in Morgantown in March 1958.

Deep freeze could be Philly's coldest stretch since 2004. The stretch of below-freezing temperatures that has entered the region will most likely be its longest since 2004, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service. That would happen if the mercury doesn't climb above 32 for nine consecutive days. And if temperatures Tuesday don't reach the freezing point — and there's a good chance they won't — they probably will stay below freezing until the first week in January.

Earth could be plunged into mini Ice Age - and it could reverse global warming. Earth could be plunged into a mini Ice Age in the next few decades, but there is good news — it could override the damage done by global warming. By 2030 comes about, the temperatures on Earth could be so low that the River Thames freezes over during winter, much like in the last little ice age which spanned from the 13th to 17th century. Maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University said the Ice Age could help offset the damage of global warming.

The Editor says...

Obviously, if there's an ice age, there is no global warming.

Snowfall on Alaska mountains has doubled — climate change blamed. Snowfall on a major summit in North America's highest mountain range has more than doubled since the beginning of the Industrial Age, according to a study from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine, and the University of New Hampshire. The research not only finds a dramatic increase in snowfall, it further explains connections in the global climate system by attributing the record accumulation to warmer waters thousands of miles away in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Global Temperature Increases Are Lower and Slower, Says New Study. A new study using more than 38 years satellite and weather balloon temperature data hypothesizes that global temperatures are going up more slowly than projected by most climate models. And right on time, these results were challenged by other researchers who defend the scientific climate consensus as embodied in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. The new study done by University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologists John Christy and Richard McNider published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Science argues consensus models may not have accurately captured how storms in the tropics expel excess heat back into space and/or that they have failed to account for how heat is absorbed by the world's oceans.

Inconvenient: oceans continue to cool. From the way media and climate scientists portray the global air temperature this past year, you'd think there was only one place to go — up. [...] September Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are now available, and we see downward spikes in ocean temps everywhere, led by sharp decreases in the Tropics and SH, reversing the bump upward last month. The Tropical cooling in particular factors into forecasters favoring an unusually late La Nina appearance in coming months.

Man-Made Climate Catastrophe Is a Myth, More Studies Confirm. From the world of science — as opposed to grant-troughing junk science — two more studies confirming that the man-made global warming scare is a myth. One, a study by Scafetta et al, published in International Journal of Heat and Technology, confirms that the "Pause" in global warming is real — and that "climate change" is much more likely the result of natural, cyclical fluctuations than man-made CO2 emissions.

The New York Times Embraces Fake Science, Fake Engineering, and Fake Economics. Global warming is now called climate change because the globe has not warmed for two decades. The "science" behind predictions of global warming due to emissions of CO2 has clearly collapsed. The promoters of the catastrophe are most charitably described as bad scientists and less charitably as snake oil salesmen. The predictions are based on computer models that don't agree with each other and that have failed miserably in predicting the actual global temperature. There is no shortage of distinguished scientists screaming that global warming is a fraud. Even if you believe the junk science of climate change, the CO2 emissions are concentrated in Asia. Reducing CO2 emissions in the U.S. at great cost makes no sense because the supposed problem is in Asia.

Another Climate Prediction Gone off the Rails. Winter started early this year. The first blizzard of the season in Montana broke a snow record with 30 inches during the first week of October, barely a few weeks into fall. In my state of Colorado too, with 11 inches of snow in Grand Mesa. Prompting the local CBS affiliate to proclaim, "The snow season is off to a big start in western Colorado!" Town and Country magazine, which caters to one percenters in predominantly blue Northeastern enclaves, had their own forecast. Warning readers, "Prepare to Bundle Up: Winter 2017 & 2018 Is Going to Be Unusually Cold." Predicting for the enlightened #NeverTrump residents of New York and Boston, "an above average amount of snowfall" and "a colder winter than last year." [...] Do the smart set at the NY Times find any irony or contradiction in the Town and Country story about more snow and their own 2014 article titled, "The End of Snow?" Ski mountains predicted to be brown rather than white.

Now it's a War on Pipelines. The prestigious journal Nature Geoscience recently published a careful study that found there has been far less planetary warming since 1998 than alarmist scientists and computer models had predicted. The models are based on the assumption that carbon dioxide drives climate change, and they "run too hot," resulting in predictions that deviate from actual temperature measurements more and more every year. But instead of admitting they were wrong, the usual strident suspects in the climate crisis industry doubled down and attacked the study and any news outlet that called attention to it. Even Britain's BBC denounced the inconvenient study and displayed not a whit of apology over its climate chaos claims.

Judges Forcing Trump to Reverse Climate "Endangerment Finding". Nine years ago, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency issued an "Endangerment Finding," claiming man-made global warming posed an imminent threat to Americans. The Finding, however, was based on computerized climate models that couldn't even successfully hind-cast the weather we'd had over the past century — much less forecast earth's climate 100 years into the future. The earth's climate has always changed, often abruptly. EPA essentially asserted that 80 percent of our energy "warmed the earth" and represented a long-term risk. Obama's team thus bet in 2009 that the earth's strong warming from 1976-98 would continue. But it didn't. Never mind all those recent "hottest year" claims from NOAA and NASA. Satellites, our most honest indicator, say our planet's temperature has risen an insignificant 0.02 degrees C since 1998.



Advert in The Australian describes what real climate change looks like. An advert today describes the real climate change we should afraid of, discusses how past CO2 levels did not cause dangerous global warming, and extra CO2 has a smaller and smaller effect, then connects failed climate models with rising electricity bills.

Leftist Global Warming Mythology. During the Roman Warm Period, the climate was 2°C to 6°C hotter than it is today. The Dark Age Cold Period saw a significantly cooler climate than today. The Medieval Warming Period, which lasted centuries, saw the climate 3°C warmer than it is today, and the Little Ice Age, which ended shortly before the American Civil War, saw temperatures 2°C lower than today. None of these climatic changes in temperature can be explained by human activity, and all of them produced changes greater than what the Chicken Little leftists claim will produce the end of civilization. The left also ignores explanations for any global warming that do not involve human activity. [...]

Going Medieval on global warming. Jennifer Marohasy, an Australian biologist, is a skeptical of anthropogenic global warming. She wrote of her work in trying to determine temperatures centuries ago. It is tedious work, undermined by zealots like Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, who admitted to fudging facts — "hide the decline" — in emails made public in 2009.

Big data finds the Medieval Warm Period — no denial here. Using the proxy record from the Northern Hemisphere composite, decomposing this through signal analysis and then using the resulting component sine waves as input into an ANN, John Abbot and I generated forecasts for the period from 1830 to 2000. Our results show up to 1°C of warming. The average divergence between the proxy temperature record and our ANN projection is just 0.09 degree Celsius. This suggests that even if there had been no industrial revolution and burning of fossil fuels, there would have still been warming through the twentieth century — to at least 1980, and of almost 1°C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, relying on General Circulation Models, and giving us the Paris Accord, also estimates warming of approximately 1°C, but claims this is all our fault (human caused).

Green Delusions and the Wind Bully. An important green big lie is the claim that global warming is affecting the current climate and is responsible for extreme weather events. According to the best measurements, global warming has been absent for 18 years. The scientific link between global warming and extreme weather is not just weak, but negative. Logically, one would expect global warming to make the weather less extreme, because global warming decreases the temperature difference between the poles and the equator that drives weather.

Australian Bureau of Meteorology caught erasing cold temperatures. Amazing, the power of the media. Suddenly, the Bureau of Meteorology needs to replace equipment and answer questions and set up an internal inquiry. But they've had weeks of warning. Lance Pidgeon and Jennifer Marohasy have been watching the automatic weather stations record very cold temperatures, and then astonished when those same readings either got entered into our national raw database as warmer, or simply disappeared. The BOM apparently has a filter set so that super cold temperatures need to be manually checked. Yet the filter is set so high, in Thredbo's case, nearly five whole degrees warmer than temperatures already recorded.

Snowballs in July? Fancy throwing snowballs in summer or going barefoot and T-shirt-clad during a 'snowfall' in July? This weekend in St. Petersburg, Russia would have been perfect after a heavy hailstorm hit the city. On Saturday [7/22/2017], streets in St. Petersburg were covered with piles of snow and the roads resembled winter rivers. City residents took to social media to share the unusual summer scenery.

Global Warming Study Canceled Because There's Too Much Ice. Irony so thick, you need a shovel for it and perhaps an ice ax. In May, an expedition that set out to gather global warming evidence in the Arctic was forced to call it off. Why? Because the ice was too thick and the icebreaker was needed to rescue other ships. So much for that whole 'global warming' thing. [...] The Amundsen is the second most powerful icebreaker in the country and it could barely get through the ice itself. That is very thick ice.

July 4, 2017: Coldest July Temperature Ever Recorded In The Northern Hemisphere. Greenland just set the record for coldest July temperature ever reported in the Northern Hemisphere at -33°C.

Harsh winter took heavy toll on wildlife across western U.S.. Wildlife managers in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington also reported higher losses of animals in the wake of one of the coldest and snowiest winters in decades. Parts of the Rockies saw snowfall as late as mid-June. "This year we kind of had all the factors that we don't want — we had deep snow, we had periods of fairly cold weather, subzero, and then we also had some crusting on top of that snow," said Roger Phillips, spokesman for the Idaho Fish and Game Department.



The Truth about the Global Warming Pause. Between the start of 1997 and the end of 2014, average global surface temperature stalled. This 18-year period is known as the global warming pause, also sometimes referred to as the global warming hiatus. The rise in global temperatures that alarmed climate campaigners in the 1990s had slowed so much that the trend was no longer statistically significant. [...] Last week, a group of climate scientists who have analysed temperature data from the lower atmosphere concluded that since around 2000 there had been a hiatus in temperature increases, stressing that this was inconsistent with what is known about natural climatic change. What is more, computer climate simulations, so central to the case for climate alarm, did not predict this might happen and cannot explain why it did. This is another important paper confirming the existence of the hiatus, and another case of the mainstream media's lack of interest. Still, many climate activists claim that the 'missing heat' must have gone into the oceans. In reality, the evidence is not as clear as they maintain.

Top Climate Alarmist: Computer Models Wrong, Skeptics Right on "Pause". Count on the Fake News media to ignore a huge admission by a Climategate scientist that there has been no measurable global warming over the past 20 years — something he has previously vociferously denied. The admission by Dr. Benjamin Santer, a top global-warming alarmist, should have made headlines — but, of course it didn't. Santer was a leading "pause denier," a climate alarmist who refused to accept the growing scientific consensus — based in this case on solid, verifiable evidence — that global surface temperatures have remained essentially stable for the past two decades, since at least 1998. Yes, despite the non-stop activist screaming and media handwringing about alleged approaching doom from anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (or AGW), the global satellite datasets show that the gradual temperature rise during the 20th century stopped in the 1990s, right as the AGW bandwagon was kicking into high gear. This has been especially troubling for the alarmists, since they have been claiming that man-made CO2 is responsible for global warming (which isn't happening), and the "pause" or "hiatus" has been ongoing, coincident with huge new inputs of human-generated CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

The New Consensus: The Global Warming Hiatus Was Real. Many Warmists did actually say there was a Pause, then would provide all sorts of excuses as to why it occurred and why this totally doesn't mean that we're not all doomed in the future. Usually, their excuses would involve things like it being caused by nature, which brings to mind a significant question: "if the Pause was caused by natural variation, why can't most of the warming be due to natural variation?" What is notable here is that they are admitting that the models are, in a simple word, [faulty]. 95% of them were wrong.

Take A Look At The New 'Consensus' On Global Warming. A scientific consensus has emerged among top mainstream climate scientists that "skeptics" or "lukewarmers" were not long ago derided for suggesting — there was a nearly two-decade long "hiatus" in global warming that climate models failed to accurately predict or replicate. A new paper, led by climate scientist Benjamin Santer, adds to the ever-expanding volume of "hiatus" literature embracing popular arguments advanced by skeptics, and even uses satellite temperature datasets to show reduced atmospheric warming.

California's huge snowfall will keep some ski resorts open until August. The calendar may say it's June, but in some parts of California, it still looks like a Winter Wonderland. The unusually high snowfall from the barrage of storms that hit the western mountains over the winter is still on the ground — and in some places, there's as much as eight feet of it.

Forget the 'warm blob' — opposite 'cool blob' taking up roost in Pacific Ocean. It was the darling of the extended record warm stretch of weather we had in 2015 — a pool of warm waters that had formed off our coast in the Pacific Ocean, given the nickname "The Blob" by our state climatologist. The warm blob is long gone — you might have noticed it wasn't like 55 degrees every day in winter. But now it appears we have the opposite effect going, albeit it in much weaker form. Measurements of sea surface temperatures off our coast in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean are now showing cooler than normal temperatures.

Global Temperatures Plunge 0.5° Celsius In April. Despite widespread denial among climate activists, a growing number of scientific research papers in recent months have confirmed the global warming hiatus, trying to explain its possible reasons. The latest study claims that the Southern Ocean played a critical role in the global warming slowdown.

The dynamics of the warming hiatus over the Northern Hemisphere. A warming hiatus is a period of relatively little change in global mean surface air temperatures (SAT). Many studies have attributed the current warming hiatus to internal climate variability (ICV). But there is less work on discussion of the dynamics about how these ICV modes influence cooling over land in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). Here we demonstrate the warming hiatus was more significant over the continental NH. We explored the dynamics of the warming hiatus from a global perspective and investigated the mechanisms of the reversing from accelerated warming to hiatus, and how ICV modes influence SAT change throughout the NH land. It was found that these ICV modes and Arctic amplification can excite a decadal modulated oscillation (DMO), which enhances or suppresses the long-term trend on decadal to multi-decadal timescales. When the DMO is in an upward (warming) phase, it contributes to an accelerated warming trend, as in last 20 years of twentieth-century. It appears that there is a downward swing in the DMO occurring at present, which has balanced or reduced the radiative forced warming and resulted in the recent global warming hiatus.

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Please forgive the long excerpt, but that was only the first half of the Abstract!

Delayed warming hiatus over the Tibetan Plateau. A reduction in the warming rate for the global surface temperature since the late 1990s has attracted much attention and caused a great deal of controversy. During the same time period, however, most previous studies have reported enhanced warming over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). In this study we further examined the temperature trend of the TP and surrounding areas based on the homogenized temperature records for the period 1980-2014, we found that for the TP regions lower than 4000 m the warming rate has started to slow down since the late 1990s, a similar pattern consistent with the whole China and the global temperature trend. However, for the TP regions higher than 4000 m, this reduction in warming rate did not occur until the mid-2000s. This delayed warming hiatus could be related to changes in regional radiative, energy, and land surface processes in recent years.

Modulation of air-sea fluxes by extratropical planetary waves and its impact during the recent surface warming slowdown. It is widely accepted that natural decadal variability played a major role in the slowdown in global warming observed in the 21st century, with sea surface cooling in the tropical Pacific recognized as a major contributor. However, the warming pause was most pronounced during boreal winter, with Northern Hemisphere flow anomalies also playing a role.

New Study Confirms: The Warming 'Pause' is Real and Revealing. As someone who has paid close attention to the 'pause' for almost a decade I am perhaps more attentive than most when it comes to a retelling of the history of the idea and the observations. The authors say the pause started with claims from outside the scientific community. Well, yes and no. It was tentatively suggested in 2006 and 2007 by climate sceptics many of whom were experienced scientists and quite capable of reading a graph and calculating statistics. A decade after it was raised, every time the 'pause' is debated it is a tribute to those who first noticed it and faced harsh criticism. It was the sceptics who noticed the 'pause,' and in doing so made a valuable contribution to science. For years it was only analysed and discussed on the blogosphere before journals took notice.

Environmentalists Are Dead Wrong. In 2000, climate researcher David Viner told The Independent, a British newspaper, that within "a few years," snowfall would become "a very rare and exciting event" in Britain. "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said. "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past." In the following years, the U.K. saw some of its largest snowfalls and lowest temperatures since records started being kept in 1914.

Sea ice off Newfoundland thickest ever yet another polar bear comes ashore. Amid reports that ice conditions between Newfoundland and southern Labrador are the worst in living memory, another polar bear was reported ashore in the area — just after biologist Andrew Derocher explained to the CBC that bears only come on land when sea ice conditions "fail."

On the Existence of a "Tropical Hot Spot" & The Validity of EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding. The analysis results invalidate EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding, including the climate models that EPA has claimed can be relied upon for policy analysis purposes. Moreover, these research results clearly demonstrate that once the solar, volcanic and oceanic activity, that is, natural factor, impacts on temperature data are accounted for, there is no "record setting" warming to be concerned about. In fact, there is no Natural Factor Adjusted Warming at all.

Alaskan city buried under record snowfall. The National Weather Service said 8.8 inches of snow fell on Anchorage between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday [3/30/2017].

Al Gore Has Made Another Science Fiction Movie About Global Warming. No doubt Gore's next fabulous fable will show "evidence" that man is dangerously warming his planet by pointing out some things that are different than they were in 2006 and fit the warming alarmists' claims that human-driven climate change is going to make things hotter, colder, wetter, drier, windier, less windy, snowier and less snowy. But what hasn't changed is the global temperature. It simply won't budge no matter how much the alarmists want it to soar. Sea levels aren't cooperating with the Goreites, either, rising in slow motion just as they have for quite a few millennia.

Blizzard Watch Issued for New York City, Long Island Ahead of Nor'easter. The metro New York region could see up to 12 to 18 inches of snow, with some spots getting up to 2 feet. Wind gusts will frequently top 40 mph and could near 60 mph at times on Long Island. [March 13, 2017.]

With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode. As The New American reported last month, virtually every falsifiable prediction made by climate theorists — both the global-cooling mongers of a few decades ago and the warming alarmists more recently — has proven to be spectacularly wrong. In many cases, the opposite of what they forecasted took place. But perhaps nowhere have the failed global-warming doom and gloom predictions been more pronounced than in the Antarctic, where sea-ice levels have continued smashing through previous records.

Claim: Global Warming Creating Thicker Ice in the Baltic. Global warming is apparently making it so difficult to break through thickening Baltic Ice, the Baltic Icebreaker fleet may have to be upgraded.

Democrats' Real Global Warming Fraud Revealed. The Democrats are devastated by their recent lost elections. They will be even more devastated as we learn the details of their massive global warming fraud. Dr. John Bates, a former high level NOAA scientist, set off a furor by revealing that a recent NOAA paper, which claimed global warming hadn't "paused" during the past 20 years, was fraudulent. The paper was timed to undergird Obama's signing of the hugely expensive Paris climate agreement. This is only a tiny fraction of the climate fraud.

We Need To Keep Obamacare Because Of 'Climate Change'. The global temperature has literally gone up just a mere 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1850. It's barely budged since 1998.

Snow Just Hit The Sahara Desert For The First Time In 37 Years. [Photos]

Met Office Data Confirms Record Drop Of Global Temperatures. New official data issued by the Met Office confirms that world average temperatures have plummeted since the middle of the year at a faster and steeper rate than at any time in the recent past.

Polar vortex 2.0? Freezing temps, snow & icy rain to hit 200mn people. Ready, steady, bundle up! Jack Frost is about to dance across the Northeast with a freezing polar vortex making a dramatic return to the US. Chills, snow and rain are expected to make a landfall over the weekend, likely bringing old classics like slippery roads and flight delays. Meteorologists predict that the freezing blast will cover midwestern and northeastern states for at least five to seven days. So, getting out extra scarves and gloves might be a good idea.

Global Warming Hoax: Chicago Breaks Early Snowfall Record. Here's how the global warming hoax works: Liberals convince you that the world is heating up, they hit you with sad photos of polar bears, and you end up voting for a globalist agenda. That's been the plan since day one. Sure, you can throw in the occasional get-rich-quick scheme, a la Al Gore, but for the most part the idea is to install a global government or regime based on the idea that the world is getting too hot too fast and that the only way to combat it is to ditch our sovereignty. Unfortunately for that sill narrative, we have facts. Take Chicago in 2016, for instance.

Trump and the Climate Change Clown Show. Aside from the observations, warming versus cooling, what is the hypothesis as to what is causing the change? Some blame human activity and the burning of fossil fuels. Others attribute temperature changes on Earth to the Sun, our solar system furnace, a million times larger than Earth. Just as a home furnace turns on and off at the direction of a thermostat, the Sun has its own cosmic thermostat, well beyond our comprehension or control. Turn down the Sun's thermostat, meaning reduced solar activity, and the solar system cools down. European researchers predict a "mini ice age" from 2030 to 2040 based on decreased solar activity. They liken it to the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s, which saw the River Thames in London completely frozen.

Steepest drop in global temperature on record. Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C since the middle of this year — their biggest and steepest fall on record. According to satellite data, the late 2016 temperatures are returning to the levels they were at after the 1998 El Nino. The news comes amid mounting evidence that the recent run of world record high temperatures is about to end. The fall, revealed by Nasa satellite measurements of the lower atmosphere, has been caused by the end of El Nino — the warming of surface waters 