Unseasonably Cold Temps Continue

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

(CBS/AP) 
The annual White House Easter egg roll was under way despite the cold weather, it even snowed at President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he spent Easter.

The Cleveland Indians tried all weekend to kick off their series against the Seattle Mariners, but were stymied when the weather forced Friday's home opener and subsequent double headers on Saturday, Sunday and Monday to be postponed. Several Mariners left the dugout to make snow angels on the field in the empty stadium (left).

Worried that more unseasonable weather could hit Cleveland again this week, the Indians moved their next series against the Los Angeles Angels to Milwaukee's Miller Park, which, unlike Jacobs Field, has a retractable roof.

It was still snowing Monday morning, said "Leslie" at the Chester Diner.

"Some people are having difficulties getting their car out of the driveway. Some people let their car sit there and they have to dig them out, but a lot of people are just chugging along," she told CBS News.

Forty cars crashed into one another in Michigan due to icy conditions on Highway 23.

Those watching the Masters golf tournament noticed players wearing an extra layer of clothing as Augusta, Ga., experienced its coldest morning ever in April, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenavasan.

The cold also scuttled a bid in Lake Geneva, Wis., to set the record for doing the twist, as countless would-be dancers stayed home.

"It was really a twist of fate," said a disappointed Kathy Fraser, organizer of Saturday's Largest Twist Dance. "We will just have to try again next year."

Some 227 participants braved frigid winds and snow flurries but were well short of the 1,693 dancers required to break the record.

Ten-year-old Madison Gagliardi was ready to flaunt her special form.

"My grandma said that we should practice twisting like we are drying off our bottoms with a bath towel," she said. "It seems kind of funny, but that's how you do it."

Officials in Morrison, Colo., canceled Sunday's annual sunrise service at the Red Rocks Amphitheater because seats and stairways were covered with ice.

Morning lows in Columbia, S.C., dropped to the upper 20s, the weather service said. The usual courtyard service at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in Columbia had to be moved indoors, the Rev. Michael Bingham said.

"Our musicians are worried about their fingers," he said Saturday as the church's plans were being changed.

Farmers were worried about the impact the weather could have on crops. Blueberries could be particularly affected, said Stanley Scarborough, production manager of Sunnyridge Farms, which has fields in Baxley and Homerville, Ga.

Scarborough said the majority of the state's blueberry crop, a variety called rabbit-eye, is normally harvested around June 1. This year, the bushes bloomed early because of a wave of warm temperatures last week. Scarborough the blueberries are not able to withstand freezing temperatures.

"At 26 or 27 degrees, you would probably lose half of the Georgia crop," valued at about $20 million to $25 million dollars, Scarborough said.

[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.

[gaye5]

Mark Twain once complained that a lie can make it half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
Climate-change activists and Democrats on Capitol Hill are gearing up to push the U.S. to limit so-called greenhouse gases, why when the cause is more than likely the sun which is going through a hot cycle...
I wonder if the reason that both our right winged governments are doing nothing about it is because they know that the cause is not humans????
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: "The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.

Plus the earth changing its magnetic balance.. see August 01, 2002 - (date of web publication)
SATELLITES REVEAL A MYSTERY OF LARGE CHANGE IN EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELD

Even the DISTINGUISHED botanist David Bellamy has branded fears about global warning as "the biggest scam to hit the world".
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News
February 28, 2007.............

[gaye5]

HawkSprings, unfortunately I cant get that link to come up on my computer, any other way of getting it???
I for one do not believe in this global warming propaganda. as I have said before, I believe that if it was so and IF we had learned men in government, that they would either know or be told that the answer to te CO problem is planting more trees, and as we need trees for our every day needs, then keep replacing trees start reclaim the desert with trees as Israel has done, plant where we dont use the ground, etc... trees give of oxygen, and obsorb WHAT, no it couldnt possibly be CO's...Oh dear what a simple answer...plant trees...

[teeus]

Wish this were more of a challenge =(
Posted by didntinhale

Here's a challenge for you--try responsing to posts without name calling, profanity or vulgarity.

Careful, now. Your head may explode.

[erasmus6]

As fun as this has been I really must go, I do have other things that I need to do. Reading the same thing over and over becomes very boring. It would be nice if there was some intelligent views for a change, but I can see that today it is the same old c-r-a-p, except for a few.

[erasmus6]

I think that the American people should expel people like you from their country, you give them a bad name. Only please don't send them our way....or maybe you should!

[erasmus6]

Yes, I doubt that you would lose any sleep, people without conscience rarely do.

[hawksprings]

So when are we going to invade Canada anyway?
How does next Tuesday look? Should only take a few hours.

[erasmus6]

And of course all my posts have been AFTER you have slammed me and my country.
Yes it is truly sad that a country has to be judged by the ignorant few that they meet.

[erasmus6]

didninhale
I just got to thinking, I bet the people in Europe hate the Americans because they have met too many people like you. I feel sorry for your fellow Americans.

[erasmus6]

You are joking right? Protection and security?
Your country has done a bang up job so far of protecting your own never mind somebody elses country. No I have to say that your country will probably be the destruction of us both.