[RagingTireFire]

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/105114.html

While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland.

On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.

'The ice is up to 50cm thick,' said Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark's Meteorological Institute who has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the Royal Arctic Line. 'We've had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.'

Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.

[LUconn]

hey, the did specify that they were there to observe climate change. That's a change. Eh? Eh?

[ATrain]

Climate change: The new scare tactic of the left

[Fumblerooskies]

The warming in Greenland is no different than reported warming back in the 30's.

[01LUGrad]

Wow, Fumble, you just opened yourself up to all kinds of jokes. I'll pass.

[mrmacphisto]

Semi-autonomous nation? How does that work? Can you be semi-autonomous and a nation?

[RagingTireFire]

Semi-autonomous nation? How does that work? Can you be semi-autonomous and a nation?

Greenland is actually a part of the country of Denmark. However, Greenland is so sparsely populated and undeveloped that it's not really worth it for the Danes to worry about a giant frozen island. As such, the Greenlanders pretty much operate on their own.

[AZjonz]

Semi-autonomous nation? How does that work? Can you be semi-autonomous and a nation?

Supposedly the American-Indian tribes per Chief Justice Marshall (Marshall Trilogy).

[Cider Jim]

Wow, Fumble, you just opened yourself up to all kinds of jokes.

Fumble is old, but I don't think even he remembers the 1930s. I'll just chalk it up to him being a history buff and watching a lot of the History Channel to prepare for Quiz Bowl competition.

[Rocketfan]

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/col ... ?id=332289

[cheerbren]

So we must have had global warming from the day I was born back in 1974 because MN is always frigid in January and our temp in Feb. is always unpredictable. We want some warming up this way - bring it on!

[Fumblerooskies]

When my wife starts to thaw...
...THEN I will believe in global warming.


(just kidding...if a happily married guy can't make a crack about his wife...then these are sad times indeed)

[4everfsu]

[MacGeek]

indeed

[PAmedic]

(just kidding...if a happily married guy can't make a crack about his wife...then these are sad times indeed)

nice try. you're a dead man

[FlameDad]

(just kidding...if a happily married guy can't make a crack about his wife...then these are sad times indeed)

nice try. you're a dead man

Correct medic - dead man walking

or in this case, dead man posting....