Snow hits the ground in seven states as advocates demand U.N. response to "global warming"
Called the “largest climate march in history” by organizers, the “People’s Climate March” will occur on Sept. 21st, a few days before the United Nations will attempt to draft a “global warming” treaty on the same level as the controversial Kyoto Protocol.
“The Secretary-General has asked leaders to announce significant and substantial initiatives to help move the world toward a path that will limit global warming,” states a U.N. press release.
Yet, in contrast to that rhetoric, ice cold temperatures are shattering records across the U.S. and Antarctica’s sea ice is expanding at a record pace.
“Chicago seemingly switched from summer to fall overnight,” NBC Chicago reported yesterday. “Temperatures plunged from a high near 80 degrees on Wednesday to the mid-50s on Thursday, and by mid-day the area set a record low for high temps.”
“On this date in 1940, the coolest high temp was 61 degrees; on Thursday, O’Hare Airport recorded a high of 56 degrees.”
Snow blanketed Denver, Colo., yesterday and so far this summer, seven states have experienced snow on the ground.
Additionally, the National Weather Service issued a freeze warning for all of western Montana and portions of central Idaho for the rest of this week.
“The National Weather Service says a new record low temperature was set at Missoula, with Friday morning’s 25 degrees breaking the old record of 28 that was set back in September of 1988,” kaj18.com reported today. “The NWS also reports Kalispell also broke the cold weather record for this date, although it’s a mark that wasn’t as old.”
“This morning’s low of 23 degrees was below the old record of 24 that was set on Sept. 12, 2012.”
The NWS also said that further south, in Nebraska, current temperature dips have potential to break records.
And in the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctica is on pace to set the all-time sea ice extent maximum.
Satellite data shows that no global warming trend has occurred from Oct. 1996 to Aug. 2014, a period of nearly 18 years, and this period of cooling could last at least for another decade.
“Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on Remote Sensing Systems’ satellite-based monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, there has been no global warming – none at all – for at least 215 months,” wrote climate analyst Lord Christopher Monckton. “This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979.”
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