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A woman shovels the snow from the entrance of her house in Glodeanu Silistea village, 100km east of Bucharest on Feb. 14. Romania may halt electricity exports and limit supplies to industrial consumers in a bid to meet rising household demand due to freezing temperatures, the government said today.
The Associated Press reports: Snow as deep as 15 feet (4.5 meters) isolated areas in Romania, Moldova and Albania on Tuesday and turned a power plant in Kosovo into a park of dazzling ice sculptures.
In a winter harsher than many can remember, energy workers struggled mightily Tuesday to break the ice that has encapsulated Kosovo's main power station in Obilic. Steam from the plant's vents coated its pipes and buildings with ice and snow, turning them into unworldly, unrecognizable objects of art.
Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a record-breaking cold snap and the heaviest snowfalls in recent memory.
Vadim Ghirda / AP
Barbed wire is covered in ice in the village of Silistea Glodeanu, Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 14. Snow as deep as 15 feet (4.5 meters) isolated areas of Romania, Moldova and Albania on Tuesday, and helicopters and army trucks were used to deliver food and medicine, and to transport sick people to hospitals.
Read the full story: Snow, ice coat the Balkans with unworldly beauty
Daniel Mihailescu / AFP - Getty Images
A bulldozer clears the main road covered with snow in Glodeanu Silistea village, 100km east of Bucharest on Feb. 14.
Petr Josek / Reuters
Winter has arrived with chilling force in many parts of North America, Europe and Asia.
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Global Warming anybody?
Science and politics should never mix but they frequently do. Eventhough science is suppossed to be free of bias and rely on only the hard facts rarely do many ever get to see that. Instead we have stupid politicians and some stupid scientists stirring up everything that is anathema to logic and science. Whats the result? Nothing gets done because there are people like Gore who have blown the opportunity to address this problem, if there is a problem that is. Its crazy because now it doesn't matter if there was a problem or not. It's as simple as that. The parasites (special interests, lobbists, democrats, repubs, etc etc) waiting in the wings to make their millions/billions are also to blame.
How do politicans affect the weather? Other than adding a little bit of hot air to the atmosphere?
alfred newman, i agree and am much concerned as i pay close attn. to weather patterns across the globe. i do be lieve we are in for a rude awakening with droughts, floods, hurricanes and whatever else nature throws at us. the comment about the IQ's is true, no kidding, wasn't trying to be a smart arse. we will be lucky if food production becomes are next boogeyman.
okay bill...i believe you about the IQ tests....I sailed for years and had to watch the weather around the globe and it has become more erratic and unpredictable over the past 40 years....for what reasons i do not know....as I have no axe to grind or point to gain in this discussion...i just know what i see and have extrapolated that things have and are changing rapidly
Can you say "Catastrophic Climatic Destabilization"?
You should. Instead of "global warming".
People who say "What global warming?" are hopelessly provincial rubes. The world is bigger than your own little backyard. Figure it out.
I know Popeye! I have sailed around it several times.
How about you?
i am a fairly liberal thinker, i look at the evidence and the talking points and try to make an informed stance for my views. i see where climates change over time and how fossil fuels assist it along. i believe we're in a period of both, natural change and man assisted alteration s. there is not an area on this planet that has not felt the changes weather patterns have brought. we are in a period of great concern to anyone that has the ability to objectively look at the evidence and understand that many weather records have fallen just within the past few years. it is not coincidence but a pattern emerging that one day soon will leave us all praying for a way out.
Climate change cycle enhanced by man.
Ah, but do you have proof Susis, instead of just giving an opinion. Opinions are not facts.
Costa Rica today. Just got home from the beach, blue sky 83 degrees, Just found some ice in the fridge to put in my Margarita ! eat your heart`s out.
THE LOWER THE LATITUDE THE BETTER THE ATTITUDE
I find it funny how the left assume that global warming is a scientifically proven theory. Global warming science is based mostly on temperature measurements over an extremely short period of time. We would need thousands of years of temperature measurements to know if this is indeed global warming or just the natural cycle of nature. You know the earth has been through several ice ages. Wait you mean it froze, then warmed up, then froze, then warmed up. I guess cavemen were using too many fossil fuels. Must I remind you left liberal nimrods, that the data accumulated by the global warming scientist was debunked a few years ago during climategate. You know, the e-mails in which the lead global warming scientist were encouraging their colleges not to report temperature data because it would actually debunk their global warming theory. Oh how quickly the left forgets.
Hey, we're on tha world wide intertubes! Wheee! Lookit us!!
Doug doesn't rely on science Disgusted, just some suspect computer projections. Not real science, just theory.
Tell us all about science, Dr. Wally
Disgusted:
You are on the mark with your assessment. The left is hell bent on selling this "Man Made Global Warming" concept as a science, when in fact it is not. When scientists alter data in their efforts to achieve a desired outcome/result, it is called fraud.
Their whole fabrication has created an "industry" whereby people are getting rich "selling" a renewable energy/Cap and Trade mandate. Renewable energy is fine, but the mandate is far too costly. It tries to totally negate the reality that fossil fuels do work and they are not a bad thing. All energy sources should be produced and utilized until alternative forms can be phased in economically. It is a bad strategy to artificailly raise prices in an energy market in order to "justify" a concept. Green energy should not be mutually exclusive.
Why would i eat my heart out? I do not enjoy tropical weather anymore.....too many gamma rays and skin damage....more than 40 islands and 5 continents later...
wear sunscreen...
U knock yourself out!!
Just like what al gore was saying in his 'sky is falling' speech. The number of over $1B disasters have been going straight up since 1980. But the animals & plants are most affected & are dying off in droves. Google 'climate change animal' and read tru the 120M hits if you dare.
ALGORE has made millions by pushing his agenda and it doesn't bother you ?
Bet you blame Wall ST for the financial problems in this country and if Cap & Trade were to pass THEY would make billions of dollars trading carbon credits !
Why not research the financial connections to " global warming " before drinking the Kool Aid ?
By the way the dollar amounts you mention should be adjusted downward for inflation .
science, schmience, libreals, leftists,rightists, OMGists. If bullsh$t was snow we'd be experiencing a blizzard on this thread. I like the democrats blaming the GOP for the weather and visa-versa holy mackeral people get a grip. And yes I like the fact that one person pointed out that 60% of Florida would be underwater without engineering, like the highest point in Florida is 490odd feet above sea level. water, water everywhere and it's all polluted, damn it
Talk about winter wonder land!! Geeessssshhh!! Its just time for a new ice age is all. Mother earth always changes her weather patterns. Its just how it is.....
18000 years ago North America was covered in ice from mid USA to the North Pole and 3000 years later it had thawed !
There have been warming and cooling cycles throught the history of the world !
Why are you adherents of global warming not bothered that the leaders of the movement have made and will continue to make billions of dollars from pushing this agenda ?
where's u.s.'s turn -
that is kind of funny...
still waiting on the zombie apokolypse
I do not give 2 chits about the political side of the issue!
I just know what i see and it is wild.
Have any of u posters looked at the Slideshow accompanying this story?
Here are the core issues:
We as a species are not intelligent enough to know all the facts that would lead to a valid conclusion regarding climate change. We as a species are so stratified and conditioned by our political ruling class to fighting amongst ourselves that we abandon any pursuit of real truth in favor of political expediency. We as a culture have decided that it is better to accept the scraps from the political elites table rather than suffer the pain of changing what is clearly a fundamentally fractured system. We refuse to even listen to opposing viewpoints, clinging to those views expressed by people who are driven by agendas and who readily profit from the hysteria that results.
In short: we are far to ignorant to know the answers to these questions with any accuracy, arrogant enough to believe that we do and naive enough to believe we can affect changes in a global system that is beyond our ability to affect.
Believe me; we are ignorant enough to believe we can fix climate change, and just dumb enough to completely destroy it.
Huh?
this past winter my area barely got snow which is very unusual and i now know where it went lol it went to romania
Global warming = Melting ice caps = The cooling of the Atlantic = Return of the little Ice age for Europe.
The Atlantic hasn't cooled.
So whats the big deal anyway? That is the norm for this time of year.........
Uh, HAARP. A little...I mean a LOT more to the North. Thanks!
15 feet of snow and the picture shows a woman shoveling while a group of men stand around in the background.
The U.K. has a carbon footprint tax and its soon comming to the U.S. Is there a Minster of the Enviroment now in Parlament? Where does this tax fund go and how is it managed. I know its cool to be green these days, but hey, do we need another reason to tax people?
"AKguy", Very Well stated! I was going ask all these experts, What brought on the last Ice age? And what made it go away? Surely not a polluted atmosphere? I think it just may have been the earth in a cycle of Cooling and warming? To call all these "Weather Changes" something else seems a bit to Doomsday to me. The weather has been in these cycles of change since..........."Day One"! Which of course was a Monday!
Its reverse Psychology, the politicians are telling everyone that global warming is coming when it is really the next ice age. That buys them time to invest in North Face clothing company, snow shovels and handwarmers so they can corner the market for when you sheep wake up and its 20 below outside and snow is up to your butt.
Got all that stuff dude. Plus sheep!
How 'bout u?
The PPL coal fired electrical power plant at Colstrip, Montana emitted 17.1 million metric tons of greenhouse gases last year. Their stats not mine.
Where does it all go?
Into outer space or the atmosphere? I say it looks like humans are assisting what is a naturally occuring cycle that has bee going on for thousands of years. We can slow it down if we want to or we can argue about it as it accelerates into what ever it is going to do.
I think that humans are headed for an ecological thinning of the herd in the next 100 years.
Does that upset you?
So, THAT'S where all OUR snow has gone. The snowmobiles ("snow machines" in Alaska, I guess) are pretty silent in Minnesota this year