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Wet dream of climate dictators: Climate skeptics to be exiled to 'international convict settlements'

Joann Nova
JoNova
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:32 UTC
Kerguelen Island 1903
© Wikimedia CommonsKerguelen Island 1903
Tony Thomas has unearthed a ten year old document that reads like a wet dream for mini-climate dictators. It envisages, by 2028, that the first climate skeptics will be convicted of denying the existence of climate change and exiled to three penal colonies in, wait for it, Kerguelen Island, South Georgia and New Zealand's South Island. Magically, these are "International convict settlements." So it's globalist prisons for the deplorables who say unpermitted things, because they are so bad, we wouldn't want them mixing with normal criminals back home who believe in climate change but rort the carbon markets.

Luckily their fantasy fiction is even less accurate than climate models. By 2030 they are tipping Africa as an economic powerhouse:
2030 ... the global economy today is less dominated by the big three of China, India and the US. Instead, economic blocs such as the African Union, the Latin American Trade Council and the Alliance of Turkic States have emerged as powerful players on the scene.
As Tony Thomas points out they also estimated oil would rise from $150 in 2008 to $400 by 2022. So far it has risen all the way to $60. They also predicted a global depression in 2009-18. Instead we got "Dow Record highs ". I guess they didn't see Donald Trump coming either.
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Record number of cold stunned turtles for Texas


Panama City News Herald
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:00 UTC
Padre Island National Seashore's Tom Backof holds a rehabilitated sea turtle before releasing it
Padre Island National Seashore's Tom Backof holds a rehabilitated sea turtle before releasing it
Florida sea turtles weren't the only ones impacted by last week's cold snap.

In Texas, more than 2,000 turtles were cold stunned, which breaks all state records. Many of the turtles have been brought to Texas A&M University in addition to NOAA Fisheries Galveston Laboratory Sea Turtle Hospital.

While the situation is more dramatic in Texas, the Panhandle is experiencing its second largest cold stun event. More than 850 cold-stunned turtles have been taken in for treatment at Gulf World Marine Institute after temperatures dropped in the bays.

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France: Avalanche warnings extended due to 'once in a lifetime snow storms' - heavy snow blanketing vast swathes of the planet (PHOTOS)


Connexions
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:50 UTC
France Avalanche warnings Jan 2018
"Once-in-a-generation" snowstorms prompt authorities to maintain high alerts in three departments

Once-in-a-generation snowstorms in the Alps, some of which are expected to see up to 2m of snow fall have prompted authorities to issue repeated avalanche warnings.

The snowfall has been so intense that national forecaster Météo France, which described the conditions as 'a 30-year-event', placed the Savoie on red avalanche alert - its highest warning level - late on Monday afternoon.
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Storm dumps 18 inches of snow on Mammoth Mountain, California


Tahoe Daily Tribune
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:32 UTC
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Webcam
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Webcam
A winter storm that killed at least five people in Southern California dumped more than a foot of snow and an inch of heavy rain on the Sierra Nevada.

The National Weather Service in Reno reported Tuesday that 18 inches of snow fell on the top of Mammoth Mountain south of Yosemite National Park.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Kirkwood Mountain Resort reported 7 inches of new snow in 24 hours, while Sierra-at-Tahoe reported 4 inches and Heavenly Mountain Resort reported 2 inches.

About 5 inches of snow was recorded at Sugarbowl ski resort near Truckee, California, and 3 inches at Mount Rose Ski Tahoe near Reno.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record sea ice off Massachusetts - Melting Arctic & Antarctic temperature connection blamed (VIDEO)


Adapt 2030
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:49 UTC
Ocean freezes at Falmouth Beach, MA
© YouTube/Ryan CantyFrozen ocean at Old Silver Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts 7th January 2018.
Record sea ice off the coast between New York City and Massachusetts is blamed on a few hundred thousand square kilometers of sea ice missing around the edges of the 30 year average, interestingly, the area where the new record sea ice formed, isn't in the NSIDC sea ice maps as it doesn't get ice normally. A direct connection to disease outbreaks and grand solar minimums through 4000 years of time, just discovered connection between noctilucent clouds and temperatures in the N. Hemisphere through electromagnetic tele-connections.


Comment: The Ocean Has Frozen Over in Massachusetts

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This is an OMG climate change moment

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:26 UTC
winter painting
QUESTION: Is it in your view a minor cold blip or "OMG we're all going to freeze to death and run out of food ?" BR

ANSWER: We are looking at an unbelievable decline in the energy output of the sun which appears to be the most rapid decline in nearly 10,000 years. The Global Warming crowd may be setting society up for mass famine and death because they are deliberately pointing everyone in the opposite direction to get their portion of the $1 billion grants. Natural disasters are the most disastrous when the energy output of the sun declines. There has been a fatal interaction of ecological, agricultural, economic, and political factors that seem to be setting the stage for at least a repeat of what is known as the Great Famine of 1315-1317. The Great Famine started with bad weather in spring 1315. Crop failures lasted through 1316 until the summer harvest in 1317, and Europe did not fully recover until 1322. The period was marked by extreme levels of crime, disease, mass death and even cannibalism and infanticide. The crisis set in motion the great economic collapse that began during the fourteenth century. In our arrogance, we seem to believe we have conquered every aspect of the planet and many argue we can even alter the climate of the planet.

The collapse from the Medieval Warm period was rapid, but also deadly. When the climate turned down, what followed was suddenly bitter cold winters and drenching rains which then froze. Europe had expanded as the society always does in warm periods. A study has shown that desert rodent populations of many species tend to "fluctuate synchronously owing to pulses of primary production and seed availability during rainy years, and reduced seed production during droughts" (PLOS 2013).

Comment: See also:


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How alligators adapt to frozen swamp water in North Carolina

Mary Kekatos
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:30 UTC
Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach
Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach
A North Carolina swamp park has posted a video how alligators survive in a frozen pond.

The cold-blooded reptiles cannot generate their own body heat, but they can regulate it by changing their environment in a system called brumation. The creatures lower their body temperature and metabolism so they can survive.

Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach

While it's hard to believe they are able to survive the icy conditions, animal experts say they are very much alive and doing okay.

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13,000 tourists trapped at ski resort in Switzerland after heavy snowfall (3.5 feet in 24 hours) blocks all roads and train line

Afp and Iain Burns
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:47 UTC
Overnight winds of up to 125 miles per hour also meant there was significant damage to infrastructure on the course, notably at the finish area where tents and the stands were hit.
Overnight winds of up to 125 miles per hour also meant there was significant damage to infrastructure on the course, notably at the finish area where tents and the stands were hit.
Heavy snowfall has trapped around 13,000 tourists at Zermatt, one of Switzerland's most popular ski stations.

The snow has blocked all roads and the train leading to the resort in the southern Swiss canton of Valais, which was also hit by some power outages, head of the train station Janine Imesch said.

There are currently 'around 13,000 tourists at Zermatt,' she said, while the station website warned that 'arrivals and departures are not possible at the moment.'

The main access road has been closed since early yesterday, while the train was halted last night, she said.

Comment: See also this report concerning a similar situation at ski resorts in Italy and France: Heavy snowfall in Alpine regions leaves 30,000 skiers stranded

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Reality bites: Freezing New England changes its stance on all-renewable energy

Jazz Shaw
HotAir
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:01 UTC
blizzard maine
During a recent trip to Maine, my wife and I noticed the large number of wind turbines cluttering the peaks of the ridges around the otherwise scenic New England countryside, particularly in Vermont. There really are a lot of them, and that's the result of an ongoing push to get the region onto renewable energy as much as possible. Vermont in particular has been hammering wind power as the path to cut carbon emissions and make the state truly green in nature. And they've achieved an admirable level of success, despite the fact that people living near the wind farms are being driven batty by all the noise and the state is being forced to enact additional restrictions on turbine operation.

But for the most part, as I said, that was all well and good... at least as long as the weather was pleasant. Now, however, as I'm sure any of you living in the northeast are aware, there's a blistering bubble of arctic air throwing the region into a deep freeze. Suddenly the power grid is experiencing strains which aren't generally seen in more clement weather conditions. So how are they responding? Local Hartford, Vermont blogger Meredith Angwin has been keeping an eye on the grid and she's seeing an alarming trend (or at least alarming to environmentalists). As the temperature dropped, wind energy production waned just as demand was rising. And the local power companies responded by... burning oil.
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In North America, it's so cold that windows break


Sputnik
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:32 UTC
The unprecedented cold snap that struck North America has created surprises for the people. Even those who are accustomed to the cold recognize that the windows hadn't broken yet because of the weather...
cold cracked glass
North Americans share photos of their broken windows on the Net... because of the cold!

North America is facing an extreme cold snap.
cold cracked glass
People prepared for the worst after weather forecasters warned them about the region's sharp drop in air pressure and record low temperatures.
cold cracked glass
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