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Overal verandert het weer en het klimaat. Van de mij onbekende CornerMark [tbrewitz@cornermark.com] kreeg ik deze email opgestuurd: 'Spring Snowstorm Blamed on Global Warming. Mar 20, 2006The first day of spring arrived with an unusual blast of winter, an event some are attributing to global warming.(Washington, D.C.) The first day of spring arrived today with widespread cold and snow, an event that some say is just one more sign of global warming. "This is exactly in line with what we have been predicting for years," explained James Fearmonger, chief climate scientist at the newly formed Global Warming Prediction Center. "With global warming we have predicted that some areas will see more precipitation, some less precipitation, some will experience warmer weather, some colder. So this event can be fully explained by global warming"With winter storm warnings extending from the Great Plains into the Ohio Valley, a few government insiders are predicting that a new congressional inquiry into the unusual storm will be started later this week. "There has been a lot of finger pointing this morning," explained one FEMA official. "This storm surprised everyone. Local, state, and federal disaster officials were all caught with their pants down on this one…it's not a pretty sight." http://www.ecoenquirer.com/
New Global Warming Legislation Outlined by FeinsteinMar 20, 2006U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today outlined legislation to reduce America's emissions of greenhouse gases in order to minimize the impact of climate change on the Earth, while safeguarding our economy. "The clock is ticking on global warming," Senator Feinstein said. "If we do not slow, stop, and reverse global warming soon, we will do irreparable harm to the world around us. Many hurricane scientists believe that Katrina and Wilma – and the cost in lives, money, and property – are indicators of what we can expect from storms in the future if we don't turn back global warming. http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_33120.shtml
Bitter cold grips eastern half of nationStrong winds knock out power to thousands, and the weather gets blame for seven deaths.February 20, 2006ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Utility crews worked Sunday to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses from Michigan to Maine after a weekend winter storm, while slick roads and heavy winds were blamed for several deadly accidents.As far south as Texas, ice and freezing rain canceled dozens of flights over the weekend at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, including 85 American Airlines flights, according to a company spokesman.Little Rock, Ark., had a Sunday morning low of 18. Farther west, Alliance, Neb., bottomed out at 8 below, the National Weather Service said. At least three people were killed on icy roads in Arkansas over the weekend.In the Upper Midwest, the 8 a.m. reading of 2 below zero at Duluth, Minn., combined with 17 mph wind for a wind chill of 23 below.A reading of 18 below was recorded in Allagash, Maine, while temperatures dipped to a low of 10 degrees in Rochester and wind of up to 17 mph made it feel like almost 10 below zero, the weather service said.The fierce wind, including a 143 mph gust recorded on Vermont's Stratton Mountain on Friday, knocked out power and toppled trees, which were blamed for four deaths.Utility officials in New York expected to have crews working through the week to restore power to the 31,500 customers without electricity Sunday. That's down from a peak of 328,000 customers blacked out Friday. http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/02/20/100wir_a3weather001.cfm
Evangelicals debate global warming(March 20, 2006The atmosphere within the evangelical community has been heating up since the Evangelical Climate Initiative was introduced in early February.The statement, which is endorsed by more than 80 prominent evangelical leaders, asserts that climate change is an urgent problem and that the Christian faith mandates a strong response to global warming. “It is a very appropriate move in terms of a biblical basis and, in fact, long overdue,” said Fred Van Dyke, who teaches environmental ethics at Wheaton College. “The evangelical community has long associated the environmental agenda with a liberal agenda, but they are getting over it.”’Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former senior climate scientist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, said he is concerned that the initiative focuses too strongly on activism and not enough on science. He helped the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance draft a 19-page monograph on global warming called “An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy.”“Right now we have a government that has done nothing effective about global warming and doesn’t listen to people like me — scientists,” said Mark Cane, professor of earth and climate science, and academic board member of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. “They do listen to evangelicals, however, so [the Evangelical Climate Initiative] plays an important saving role.” http://www.stnews.org/News-2719.htm Back in the deep freeze by next weekendFebruary 20, 2006Chicago's weekend subzero blast is now history as temperatures have started a rebound that will take them into the 40s later in the week. However, the moderating trend will not last, and a repeat blast of arctic air is poised to descend into the Midwest next weekend, once again sending the mercury tumbling toward single digits or lower.The South is also cold as an icy mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain is glazing highways from Texas to the southern Appalachians.Record lows were set Sunday at Portland Ore. (23(degrees)) and Casper, Wyo. (-17(degrees)), while Houston set a new record minimum high of 38(degrees). http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0602200074feb20,1,4219293.column?coll=chi-news-hed
Global warming reaches ‘tipping point’March 20, 2006 Human-fueled global warming has reached a “tipping point,” according to a new survey of scientific research that found warming would continue even if greenhouse gas emissions halted immediately. “It would keep on warming even though we have stopped the cause, which is greenhouse gases from the combustion of fossil fuels,” David Jhirad of the Washington-based World Resources Institute said on Wednesday. The rate of warming would be slower, Jhirad said in a telephone interview, but a kind of thermal inertia would ensure that global temperatures continue their upward trend. “Taken collectively, they suggest that the world may well have moved past a key physical tipping point,” the institute wrote. Jhirad said there were actually two tipping points. The first is that there is no doubt human activities cause global warming; a more physical tipping point is that the effects of global warming are evident now. The Kyoto agreement obliges some 40 industrial nations to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012. Jhirad said the United States should adopt a system of carbon trading, like one in place in much of Europe, where companies that emit few greenhouse gases get credits that can be traded with companies that emit a lot.Also on Wednesday, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Civil Society Institute released a survey that found 83 percent of Americans wanted more leadership from the federal government to reduce the pollution linked to global warming. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C03%5C20%5Cstory_20-3-2006_pg6_11
Record cold grips areaDenver Post, CO - Feb 18, 2006Only the hearty were out recreating on Friday in Denver, and the cold will persist into the weekend. The temperature at Denver International Airport dipped to the coldest March temperatures since 1993. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3522150
Are you working for impeachment?March 10, 2006People are being tortured and murdered, toxins such as depleted uranium and napalm are being spread disseminated, global warming is being accelerated by the policies of the Bush/Cheney administration. WE THE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE!The only recourse we have is impeachment. This is available to us. it is legal, peaceful, and democratic.
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RECORD COLD TAKES HOLDFriday's high temperature is a chill-inducing 48FMar. 11, 2006Here we are in mid-March and you're still reaching for your favorite thick scarf.You groan and wonder what's up with yet another spell of frigid weather? And is that really snow atop Mount Toro? Record cold -- brrr -- temperatures, are teasing the Central Coast.Friday's "frigid" high of 48 broke the previous record high of 53 degrees for the day, recorded in 1999."We beat the record big time," said Bob Renard, an observer with the National Weather Service in MontereyMeanwhile, Friday afternoon, Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains was closed for more than an hour because of snow and ice on the summit and a big rig that overturned, according to the California Highway Patrol. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/14074703.htm