Significant' snow falls predicted by mid-week as temperatures across Britain plummet to -10Clink fall-Met-Office-warning-Temperatures-plummet-zero.html Britain is set to shiver in temperatures as low as minus ten this week with 'significant' snow falls hitting the country, the Met Office warn. The last time the mercury plummeted this low was in March - at the summit of a Scottish mountain. The north and the east of the country are in line for heavy snow, although forecasters say this could spread across Britain as we head to the weekend. Two young boys enjoying one of the first snow falls of winter in Teesdale, County Durham. Forecasters are predicting a plunge in temperatures and more significant snowfalls across much of the country Motorcyclists taking a slow drive in one of the first snow falls of winter in Teesdale, County Durham For the start of the week temperatures will be average, with daytime highs of seven or eight Celsius. But as December nears this will fall, with a north easterly wind battering the coast and bringing showers with it.    Rural parts of the country could see overnight temperatures as low a -10C, said Met Office forecast Alex Fox. He said: 'The last time temperatures reached that low was on the night of the 9th and 10th of March this year at the top of Braemar, a mountain in Scotland that's 1,000ft above sea level. That gives us an idea of how cold things are going to get. 'With these conditions there's an increased chance we could see snow, especially in northern and eastern parts of the country. Snow and thick fog on the Northumberland boarders as temperatures drop and more snow is forecasted during the next week 'But by the end of the week this could have turned to snow hitting the south by late Wednesday, early Thursday and staying until the weekend' 'And some places could get a significant amount of snow as we head towards the end of week.'   'We are getting closer and closer to December in that transition phase. At the moment temperatures are about average but over the next few days this will definitely get colder.    'We will still see showers, although not heavy rain, on Monday and Tuesday in some parts of the country.    'But by the end of the week this could have turned to snow hitting the south by late Wednesday, early Thursday and staying until the weekend.' People enjoy ice skating at Somerset House Ice Rink, Strand in London during the launch of the Somerset House Big Ice Dance Workout Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331757/UK-snow-fall-Met-Office-warning-Temperatures-plummet-zero.html#ixzz15xT9hzMk   Climate change is the new global terror, says Al Gore Posted on November 20, 2010 by Anthony Watts Not sure exactly where he said that, as that headline isn’t in the news article as a quote, but if he did say that to the reporter, apparently Mr. Gore hasn’t seen this recent study from the University of California yet:  Doomsday messages about global warming can backfire, new study shows And apparently all the evidence Mr. Gore needs these days comes from the “weather is not climate, unless we say it is” line of reasoning. From the Hindustan Times: Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a “startling paradox”, the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change. “There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action,” he said at HT Leadership Summit. Continue reading →   2010 Typhoon Tally May Be Lowest On Record Posted on November 21, 2010 by Anthony Watts Typhoon Megi Oct 18th, 2010 Image: NASA From The Japan Times: The number of typhoons this year could turn out to be the lowest on record, which experts theorize could be a result of the El Nino phenomenon lasting until this spring and the summer’s powerful high-pressure system in the Pacific. As of Saturday, 14 typhoons — tropical cyclones generated in the Northwest Pacific or the South China Sea north of the equator with a minimum wind velocity of 61.9 kph — have been spawned this year. The Meteorological Agency, which has been keeping statistics on typhoons since 1951, said the lowest number — 16 — was in 1998. The average per year between 1971 and 2000 was 26.7, while the most on record is 39 in 1967.   Considerably warmer than today just 7000 years agolink So much for human-caused global warming

                      

 

14 Nov 10 - 'Earth's climate can only be stabilized by bringing carbon dioxide emissions under control in the twenty-first century.’

"That is the opening sentence of a paper in Nature Geoscience last month," says author Matt Ridley. "It is shocking that it got past the editors and reviewers. After 4 billion years of climatic volatility, much of it not caused by CO2 but by orbital variations, solar cycles and so on, how on earth are we to `stabilise’ earth’s climate by adjusting just one forcing factor? I refuse to accept that the climate could ever be stabilised, let alone by adjusting one factor. That sentence has no place in a scientific journal."

This graph makes is amply clear that "the warmth of the Holocene optimum, peaking about 7,000 years ago, was both global in extent and considerably warmer than today."

So much for human-caused global warming.

See all of this excellent article by Matt Ridley. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/best-shot
Thanks to Benjamin Napier for this link

Matt Ridley is the award-winning author of provocative books on evolution. His books have sold over 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages and been short-listed for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for 'Nature via Nurture'. In 2007 he won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for 'Francis Crick'

 

N. Korea resurrects nuclear linkproduction getting ready for WAR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A report that North Korea has returned to enriching uranium prompted the United States to send a delegation to South Korea Sunday, officials said.
The news broke Saturday when Stanford University Professor Siegfried Hecker posted online his observations of the facility he visited Nov. 12, CNN reported.
The U.S. State Department dispatched a team to Seoul to investigate, officials said. Led by Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, the team is also scheduled to meet with leaders in Tokyo and Beijing in coming days, the report said.
Hecker said it appeared the uranium enrichment being done with 2,000 centrifuges was for nuclear power production and not for manufacturing weapons, although the facility "could be readily converted to produce highly-enriched uranium bomb fuel."
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said despite North Korea's highly publicized destruction of a nuclear facility in June 2008, U.S. officials have been wary of a return to nuclear proliferation there, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
"North Korea has made a commitment to denuclearize, and we expect North Korea to live up to its commitments," Crowley said.
the shut down of the Internet and free speech is on its way!!!!

Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee

Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
COICA is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.
The content companies have tried suing college students. They’ve tried suing internet startups. Now they want the federal government to act as their private security agents, policing the internet for suspected pirates before making them walk the digital plank.
Many people opposed to the bill agree in principle with its aims: Illegal music piracy is, well, illegal, and should be stopped. Musicians, artists and content creators should be compensated for their work. But the law’s critics do not believe that giving the federal government the right to shut down websites at will based upon a vague and arbitrary standard of evidence, even if no law-breaking has been proved, is a particularly good idea. COICA must still be approved by the full House and Senate before becoming law. A vote is unlikely before the new year.
Among the sites that could go dark if the law passes: Dropbox, RapidShare, SoundCloud, Hype Machine and any other site for which the Attorney General deems copyright infringement to be “central to the activity” of the site, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group that opposes the bill. There need not even be illegal content on a site — links alone will qualify a site for digital death. Websites at risk could also theoretically include p2pnet and pirate-party.us or any other website that advocates for peer-to-peer file sharing or rejects copyright law, according to the group.
In short, COICA would allow the federal government to censor the internet without due process.