Yikes….
Last week, virtually unreported in Britain, the extraordinary winter weather of 2008 elsewhere in the world continued. In the USA, there were blizzards as far south as Texas and Arkansas, while in northern states and Canada what they are calling “the winter from hell” has continued to break records going back in some cases to 1873. Meanwhile in Asia more details emerged of the catastrophe caused by the northern hemisphere’s greatest snow cover since 1966.
In Afghanistan, where they have lost 300,000 cattle, the human death toll has risen
above 1,500. In China, the havoc created by what its media call “the Winter Snow Disaster” has continued, not least in Tibet, where six months of snow and record low temperatures have killed 500,000 animals, leaving 3 million people on the edge of starvation.
and from the final paragraph….
The fact is that, for all their caveats that this drop in temperatures can be explainedby the cooling effect of La Niña, the official orthodoxy that “more CO2 means more warming” is facing its most serious challenge yet.
