Unseasonably Cold Temps Continue

Much Of Country Still Cold Into April, Snow Near Great Lakes; Cleveland Games Moved

(CBS/AP)  It didn't feel like April in much of the country Monday morning, with unseasonably cold temperatures and, near the Great Lakes, snow.

The cold snap also put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, moving some events indoors and adding layers over spring frocks.

Even baseball had to take another time out — because of snow.

"Most of the country is still chillier than normal ... 10 to 15 degrees below normal," CBS News Early Show weatherman Dave Price said Monday. Up to 2 inches more snow was possible for the Great Lakes region.

This Easter Sunday the weather felt more like Christmas, reports CBS News correspondent Joie Chen. Even in the nation's capital, well-known for its fickle temperatures, the cold snap has been a stunner, coming at what ought to be the peak of its much loved cherry blossom season.

Across much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, Easter celebrants swapped frills, bonnets and sandals for coats, scarves and heavy socks. Baseball fans huddled in blankets and, instead of spring planting, backyard gardeners were bundling their crops.

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  See pictures from last week's spring snowstorm in the Plains and New England

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Two weeks into spring, Easter morning temperatures were in the upper 30s along the Gulf Coast and in the single digits in northern Minnesota and the Dakotas. Atlanta had a low of 30 degrees, with a wind chill of 23, the National Weather Service said. The same reading hit New York City's Fifth Avenue, celebrated in song for the traditional Easter Parade of spring finery.

Despite the chill, nearly 1,000 people attended the annual sunrise service at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, as a slight breeze whipped over the granite monument. The service usually attracts 10,000.

Later in the afternoon, about 5,000 people braved the wind and chill in Homer, a small town in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains that claims one of the nation's largest Easter egg hunts.

"We've had cold weather before, but this might have been the coldest," said Sandra Garrison, whose family hid more than 100,000 plastic eggs on their farm, continuing a 48-year tradition. "They had their coats on for sure."

Nashville, Tenn., bottomed out Sunday at 23 degrees, knocking one degree off the Easter Sunday record set March 24, 1940.

Children dug through snow with mittened hands to find Easter eggs scattered across the town square Saturday in hard-hit Chardon, east of Cleveland, where about 16 inches had fallen.

[teeus]

M'kay.

"Stage B/During Global Warming -
*The Gulf Stream changes path leading to a much colder temperature regime
*The Jet Stream could change it path creating widespread droughts, colder or hotter temperatures in North America
*El Niqo and La Niqa could fluctuate leading to changes in offshore currents and destruction of offshore fisheries worldwide - leading to massive starvation
*Multiple killer hurricanes every year
more and more earthquakes
*Increased volcanic activities
*Increased tornadic activity
*Rainfall pattern shifts throughout the world "

[gaye5]

%u201CEnvironmentalism has served for decades as the best excuse to increase government control over you actions, in ways both large and small%u2026 indeed with %u201Cglobal warming%u201D no matter how much we sacrificed there would still be more to do. It is the bottomless well of excuses for governmental intervention and authority%u2026 this book will give you the details and the debate that they don%u2019t want you to know about,%u201D Horner writes. Wendy Cook is a staff writer at Accuracy in Academia.

New Scientist published a letter from the famous botanist David Bellamy. Many of the world's glaciers, he claimed, "are not shrinking but in fact are growing. ... 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980."
But it serves the environmentalist to quote only the ones that are shrinking. hmmmm....

[gaye5]

Myth 3. %u201CGlobal warming%u201D means more frequent, more severe storms. %u201CStorms are cyclical and, that said, are not more frequent or more severe than in the past,%u201D Horner concludes

Myth 2. %u201CGlobal warming%u201D proposals are about the environment. %u201CEven if accepting every underlying economic and alarmist environmentalist assumption, no one dares say that the expensive Kyoto Protocol would detectably impact climate,%u201D according to Horner.

Myth 1. The U.S. is going it alone on Kyoto and %u201Cglobal warming." %u201CNonsense,%u201D argues Horner. %u201CThe U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol%u2019s energy rationing scheme, along with 155 other countries, representing most of the world%u2019s population, economic activity and projected future growth.%u201D

I had an oppourtunity to hear Mr. Horner speak at the Heritage Institute recently and he said his motivation for writing the book was to tell the %u201Cother side%u201D and to clear up misconceptions that there is only one permissible position in the global warming debate.

[gaye5]

Myth 9. The 1990%u2019s were the hottest decade on record. %u201COf course, %u201Con record%u201D means %u2018since we delveloped reliable temperature records,%u2019 which generally means a very short period of time,%u201D Horner notes.

Myth 8. The science is settled; CO2 causes global warming. %u201CHistorically, atmospheric CO2 typically increases after warming begins, not before,%u201D Horner explains.

Myth 7. Climate was stable until man came along. %u201CSwallowing this whopper requires burning every basic history and science text, just like %u2018witches%u2019 were burned in retaliation for changing climates in the past,%u201D Horner states.

Myth 6. The glaciers are melting! %u201CIf glaciers retreating were proof of global warming then glaciers advancing are evidence of global cooling; they cannot both be true and in fact neither is,%u201D Horner argues.

Myth 5. Climate change is raising the sea levels. %u201CEven the distorted United Nations International Panel on Climate Change refutes such breathless claims, finding no statistically significant change in the rate of increase over the past century,%u201D Horner reveals.

Myth 4. Climate change is the greatest threat to the world%u2019s poor. %u201CClimate , or more accurately, weather, remains one of the greatest challenges to the poor,%u201D Horner contends. %u201CClimate change adds nothing to that calculus, however.%u201D

[gaye5]

Global Warming Iced
by: Wendy Cook, March 03, 2007


If asking an environmentalist about global warming, they are likely to tell you the Earth is getting warmer so quickly that the glaciers are melting at high speed making sea levels rise so that possibly by next week Manhattan will look like a scene from the movie, %u201CThe Day After Tomorrow.%u201D Ok, so maybe not next week%u2026 but point taken.

Thanks to senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute Christopher Horner, and his new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, there is now a resource to deflate the global warming hype. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, in turn, advocates a free market approach to protecting the environment.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism is not filled with scientific jargon, but hits all the major issues that are constantly commented on by the media and that frequently show up as true or false questions on exams. For example, Horner offers his own findings on what he grades as the %u201CTop Ten %u2018Global Warming%u2019 Myths%u201D:

Myth 10. It%u2019s hot in here! %u2026compared to what? %u201CPresent temperatures are warm if you compare today, to say, the 1970%u2019s or to the Ice Age%u2026 or compared to the 1930%u2019s or 1998 it is presently cooling,%u201D Horner points out.

[mainemade]

30 Degrees? And they are complaining? That's a heatwave...bring it on!!

[erasmus6]

didntinhale
Still at it I see.
"I love getting alternate points of view."
What a pile of c-r-a-p, to you there is only one view, yours.

[sy2502]

The problem is that they will use this as an argument in favor of global warming, just that instead of calling it global warming, they will say "climate changes", so that either way it goes, cold or warm, they can still say "I told you so". The argument on global warming is going the same way of the cholesterol and low-fat diets: every day the so-called experts give a different interpretation of what they see, just because they can't admit that they really don't have a clue.

[teeus]

"...lie can make it half way around the world..."

True enough, but you should have included your DISTINGUSHED Source in the liar group:

"...last week I telephoned the World Glacier Monitoring Service and read out Bellamy's letter... A few hours later, they sent me an email: "Despite his scientific reputation, he makes all the mistakes that are possible." He had cited data that was simply false, he had failed to provide references, he had completely misunderstood the scientific context and neglected current scientific literature. The latest studies show unequivocally that most of the world's glaciers are retreating... "

[mainemade]

I Love Spring! The robins flying, the trees showing buds, and the 16 inch snowstorm right before Easter! It was great! No power for 36 hours, no phone for 24. It was fun driving to work on roads with 6 inches of snow on them and the trees snapping like twigs over head. But to a long lived Mainer...it's just one of the many beauties of living here. I know it happens and camping out in the living room is a great adventure.