The record was 10° below zero. It was set 95 years ago. Flint, Michigan saw that record shattered on Wednesday when the temperature reached a bone chilling –19°, without a windchill.
Tomorrow, the windchill is predicted to reach -25°. It was close to that where I am this week. Things are cold all over America.
It is cold enough to break water mains in Toronto, Canada, causing brown-outs on one of the coldest nights of the year.
Chicago has record snowfalls.
CNN forecaster Rob Marciano said, “This is one of the coldest and longest and deepest outbreaks that the Eastern U.S. has seen in several years."
The most powerful evidence of the extreme cold comes from the Detroit News via Tom Nelson. They write, “…it’s cold enough for politicians to have their hands in their own pockets.”
Meanwhile, the sunspots are still absent, and others are reminding us of a little thing called the Maunder Minimum:
In the Maunder Minimum, the period from 1645 through 1715 and named after the man who identified it, there were few sunspots, and that 70-year period became known as the “Little Ice Age.”
Sunspot activity, it appears, is on the wane, and the result has been a gradual cooling of Earth’s climate. Indeed, 2008 may be the first “coldest year” of the 21st century.
Obama, however, like all Democrats, won’t let a little thing like facts get in the way of ideology. He’s still pushing forward with his green initiatives. Meaning that at the beginning of what could be global cooling, he’s going to make energy prices necessarily skyrocket. Now you know why they switched from “global warming” to “climate change.” They were hedging their bets.
The sad thing is, if McCain had won, he’d be doing the same thing.
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