No that’s not the north pole, it’s Belgrade. Wonder why Al Gore isn’t over there jumping up and down about the “climate crisis”.

Thick ice closed vast swaths of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe’s busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continent rose to at least 460.

As it has every day for nearly two weeks, the brutal cold claimed lives in several countries and killed dozens more in weather-related accidents.

The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mountains?intcmp=122

Freshly plowed snow frames a road in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, January 27.

“Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition?” Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, rhetorically asked in a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to a letter by climate change skeptics. Trenberth, along with 37 other atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, and other climate experts, signed the letter, published on Feb. 1.

http://news.discovery.com/

 

Well Kevin, I might if the cardiologist was this bad at describing what’s going on.

In Switzerland, falling temperatures turned snow-covered cars into Seussian ice sculptures as some areas were engulfed in record-breaking frigid weather, according to the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology. Temperatures as low as 22 degrees below zero were reported in southern Switzerland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/europe/europe-struggles-to-deal-with-cold-and-snow.html

Climate scientists love to say that single weather events don’t prove a thing or that one cold winter doesn’t stop a trend. Of course they talk about of both sides of their mouth, when there is a drought, tornado, hot summer stretch or extreme hurricane they are shouting from the rooftops that these events actually prove global warming! Anyway, if it snows that’s proof of global warming too. Add to that all the people in the US that think because there is a mild winter in the US that means the rest of the planet is having a mild winter too, and this proves global warming. NOT.

Rome had its first significant snowfall in 26 years. Snow on the beaches of Spain. Huge amounts of snow and ice in Germany and Eastern Europe, and cold and snow in Britain. Read about it here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095509/Eastern-European-death-toll-hits-150-big-freeze-continues-continent.html

Observations show unequivocally that our planet is getting hotter.
What the data says:

 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

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