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To the best of my ability I write about my experience of the Universe Past, Present and Future

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Dan Rather at HDnet on cable TV

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I had always like Dan Rather's reporting at CBS news and anywhere else he worked since the Viet Nam war when I was a young man. I was listening to a report at HDnet now called "Dan Rather reports" about technology stolen especially by the Chinese but also by Russia. It was obvious to me that it is much harder now because of the completely changed configuration of the world and because of the Internet and everything else to protect state secrets of any nation whether they be the U.S., Russia, China or any nation on earth. It is like the world has gotten so small and literally anything can be sent around the world in about 10 seconds to one minute. I was watching a Kids movie at the theater called "Journey 2 The Mysterious Island" and "The Rock" had what looked to be an Iphone. They had only one map so "The Rock" took a picture of the map with the Iphone built in camera and said, "Now we have two maps." This is how quick anything can be taken a picture of and if there is reception then sent almost anywhere on earth within one minute. In this kind of world how is anything protected? The answer is likely, it really can't properly be protected anymore effectively. So, what does this mean? It means that we need to be acting like one world because nation states cannot effectively be protected they way the once were from each other. And this likely will only get worse with time. It is not only that U.S. technology cannot be effectively protected but also ANYTHING going on in China or Russia can no longer be effectively protected from outside viewing either. Nothing anywhere is secret or can be protected from others now on earth anymore. So, warfare for all intents and purposes between large nations has become obsolete not only because of nuclear weapons but because of smart phones, laptops and the Internet.
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Jonathan Flow Talks about Living Forever as a Soul

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  • Mahasiddha These two word buttons will take you to more about Jonathan Flow. The first archive button will take you to more on describing who Jonathan Flow is. The second button "Mahasiddha" Jonathan shows up near the end of this short story but begins with Padma, a 15 year old Sanskrit Scholar born 2500 years ago in the time of Guatama Buddha or Siddhartha and he is 15 the year Buddha becomes enlightened under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, India.
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  •  Jonathan thought deeply. He was thinking about how most of his life now that he was semi retired was being sort of like a Fireman responding to emergencies to members of his family and friends. In some ways it was really nice to be able to help everyone because of being retired. But in another way he sort of missed other aspects of his life before he was retired. He traveled around the country and world now but missed more all his friends and family that had passed away more every day. So, today he had been summoned by his wife to go pick up his daughter from school because she was handling some kind of minor emergency herself. So, as he got on the road with his 4 wheel drive truck he got about a mile away before he heard on his hands free telephone through his truck speakers that a friend had taken his daughter to a restaurant and his wife was going to pick her up. So, he turned around and headed home and decided since it had stopped raining he would go walking alone in the forest because the air was very clear and cold and branches were down everywhere from the storm. So, as he walked on a dirt fire road through the coastal forest he thought to himself that "Maybe this is how all Bodhisattvas function when they come back to earth to help others?" He could imagine himself and many other beings who actually understood how the universe actually worked soul wise being in a heaven realm somewhere and then hearing the cries of younger less sophisticated souls and just like a fireman might respond to cries of help, a bodhisattva or angel might do the same answering the prayers and cries for help from souls. A Being of this nature would be less concerned about whether people lived or died and more concerned about the state of their souls and whether they had gotten too confused both spiritually or mentally and were making bad decisions and harming other souls. So, life and death is actually less of a problem for an advanced soul than beings learning to be kind to each other and to get along through all the problems and tribulations of life on earth or on any other world or dimension, known or unknown. So, when souls called more aware or advanced beings might come and try to help. And even when they were conceived or born their auras would begin to change everything, just like when Jesus was born the 3 wise men came and when Buddha was born everything changed then too. Buddha brought compassion and Jesus brought forgiveness which was something needed in the cultures of the middle east at that time as well as all around the world.
So, coming and rescuing souls when needed and being born in a baby body was what many souls did to come and rescue and grow up and help. However, some times they bit off more than they could chew just like rescue workers sometimes get into trouble too when trying to rescue others in bad situations. So, they call even more rescue workers when possible to get everyone out of their fix then. "Yes", though Jonathan, "This was how he believed the whole thing really worked Galaxy wide. 
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Hearing Aids and Keeping your Brain working

I have learned a lot the last 6 months about hearing aids. I always thought I could hear well enough but I found that in a restaurant I often couldn't understand what people were saying so instead of embarrassing myself by saying "What?" I would instead just be quiet and pretend I was listening. I was listening and could hear everyone talking but couldn't get the consonants and without the hard sounds what people are saying mostly sounds like another language. Then I was in traffic school and a guy there wore hearing aids so after the school was over I asked him about them. He said, "These are my wife's hearing aids." I thought this was a kind of funny statement. He said, "I only wear them to make her happy." So, I went home and talked to my wife and laughed about what he had told me. Later that week both my biological daughters and my wife ganged up on me and told me I had to get hearing aids. I didn't like the idea at all but with three women insisting on it I was between a rock and a hard place. So, I went with my older daughter. The man there said I had perfect hearing in the lower 80% of ranges but that I couldn't hear understand women's voices or things higher than a woman voice either barely at all. Some men would say this is wonderful. But he also told me something ominous. He said, "The problem is not that they can't fix hearing it is that after a certain point they can't fix brains that stop recognizing certain sounds. At that point a person would be deaf not because they couldn't get their hearing fixed but because the brain no longer would distinguish hearing sounds. He said the other problem is that going deaf in this way is also associated with some aspects of senile dementia if it is left untreated and that one starts to withdraw after a while of saying, "What?" and getting tired of being embarrassed asking this and slowly retreats into their own world more and more. So, he talked me into trying the Lyric hearing aid which is the best and most expensive hearing aid-

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However, this didn't work for me because they shove them in your ear canal and you leave them in 24 hours a day and only hear electronic sounds. After about 12 hours in my ears started to itch and within 18 hours I couldn't sleep and so I pulled them out. However, I found that if I put them a little way in music was wonderful and I cried realizing how much music I was no longer hearing because it was so very beautiful listening this way. However, my claustrophobia from having both whooping cough and childhood epilepsy meant that I was panicking to have something foreign in my ears from the first moment and panicking more from hearing only electronic sounds and no normal ones at all. For me, this would be like only seeing cartoons instead of seeing normal through your eyes. This was just too strange for me. So I finally settled on Starkeys

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    So, for under $5000 I could get really good hearing aids that are very small and yet still hear 50% to 70% normal sounds with an electronic sound overlay for the upper 20% of sound that I need to understand everyone when there is background noise. 
    So, I wear them when I get up in the morning and take them out when I shower or go into the hot tub spa or shower and also take them out to sleep. I also learned to flip the little battery out so it doesn't wear down the battery while you are sleeping and not wearing them.This also vents any moisture it takes on from being near your ear. It is not that I love wearing hearing aids. It's just that I want my brain to keep on hearing and working and not lose the ability of my brain to hear sounds in certain hearing ranges. It's not perfect but it works. It's nice to know what people are saying when there is background noise. It has 4 programmable  settings.

 

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Amish: a Non Oil Based Culture and Society

I think it is important for many people around the world during these times to study what can happen in a non oil based society, because once oil is gone within 10 to 25 years or just too expensive for most people to buy anymore on earth, the way the Amish live is a viable alternative at least as far as farming and horses and living goes. Many people on earth might have to temporarily or even permanently go to a somewhat similar type of lifestyle to survive the rest of this century, (or at least until more economically viable energy alternatives are more universally available). I was watching a program on the PBS TV station on the Amish tonight called, "The Amish, an American Experience" which likely might be available to watch at pbs.org eventually if you want to watch it to study this Christian Culture that lives in America. Presently, it is only available to buy on DVD.
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Texting while walking is dangerous

You hear about people almost every day now who walk out into the middle of the street while texting and get hit by a bus, truck or car or even by motorcycles or bicycles or another pedestrian. In addition to this it is also easy to walk into a telephone pole, or other sign or light pole while texting or to step into a pothole or other problem on the sidewalk or street. One way around this is to verbally text so your eyes are free to see stationary or moving obstacles. It is also possible to verbally text even if you don't have an Iphone Siri as long as you have a smartphone that is either any iphone or android. I wrote about these new apps in: Vingo: SIRI type of clone App for older Iphones
I also write about in the above article an app for androids also. Though the Vingo that I use can't talk back to me I can verbally text to my hearts content with it as long as I edit it after I do it. Sometimes if I speak really clearly and slowly it is 100% accurate. But sometimes it is not sure of the words I'm speaking and then it drops to 75% to 80% accuracy of my words.

Another way to text is to just be still on a seat or chair somewhere. As long as you are in a safe place usually then it is safe to text in peace the old fashioned way with a keyboard of some sort on your phone.
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Life Expectancy

Most of these quotes are from around 1999 and are reprints from another article called Cancer rates 1900 to 2000 and beyond. What I found interesting about them are things like how only 1 person in 25 in 1900 survived to age 60. And how on average women lived shorter lives in 1900 than men due to childbirth. It appears with refined food came also increased incidents of cancer. However, likely pollution in the environment and radiation that has spread around the world since the 1940s from nuclear testing, bombs, missiles and nuclear spread from meltdowns and earthquakes are likely a factor in increased cancer rates as well. Another interesting point is that most people didn't get cancer in 1900 because they didn't live long enough to get it.

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LIFE EXPECTANCY: (1999) In 1900, the life expectancy was 47 years of age. Only one person in 25 had then survived to age 60. Women lived shorter lives due to childbirth.

In the 1990s, the population growth rate for senior males is outstripping that of senior females, according to Census Bureau data. The male population over the age of 65 increased 11% between 1990 and 1996, while the female population increased 7.5%. During the same time period, the number of men in the age group over 85 rose 27 %, compared with 24 % for women. The ratio of women to men in the age group over 85 narrowed from 3.1:1.9 to 3.1:1.95. Women still dominate the population over 65, but the gap is beginning to narrow. In 1990, women accounted for 60 % of the population over 65; by 1996 that share had declined to 59 %, a notable change in a population of this size over this short period. The increasing number of men in the seniors' housing market could affect developers significantly, particularly in the amenities sought. An increased availability of health care for older Americans through the emergence of Medicare is cited as one factor in the increasing longevity of men, as is a decline in cigarette smoking among older males. (Housing the Elderly Report, April 1998)

OLD- AND GETTING OLDER: (1999) World Population: The global average for life expectancy had increased from 45 to 63 years from the1950's. However, 10% of the population is elderly- over 60 years of age. By 2050, it will increase to 20%.

The majority of people 60 and older, 55%, are women.

Among those 80 or older, 65 percent are women. Japanese women now have a life expectancy of 83, highest in the world. Nine million of the 43 million Americans 60 and older live alone and 80% are women.

Striking differences exist between regions with the elderly: one of five Europeans, for example, is 60 or older, compared to one of 20 Africans. By 2020, 46 percent of women 80 and older will live in Asia.

The American Association for Retired Persons said the Internet has been a boon to the elderly, with 47 percent of all online consumers over 50 and seniors more likely to contact family and others in the cyberspace community, thus reducing any feelings of isolation.

WOMEN AND LIFETIME: (1999) Why women live longer: a doctor at Ball State University indicated that "flexibility, resiliency and connections protect women against early death while men are more often wiped out by their own rigidity, aggression and denial of feelings." The life expectancy for men is now 72 years of age while women live in average of 78.8 years. Men smoke more cigarettes and consume more alcohol. They are three times is likely as women to die from accidents and four times more likely to be homicide victims. And as I a stated previously, white men have the higher suicide rates in the country once they get older than age 65. Many of these men have been insulated from the real world due to their positions of power in a corporation. However, once they retire, there entire powerbase may be gone (if there really ever was one). And they cannot boss their wives around since they have tended to develop more independency as they have gotten older.

In 1900, life expectancy for men was 49.7 years and for women 50.9 years. But by the middle of the century, men could now be expected to live to 65.6 years of age and 71.7 years for women. The increase for women, according to Dr. Crose, was due to women getting into holistic health and balancing their lives while men stayed in the "same old macho" roles. She also noted that while women do suffer more ailments and depression earlier in life, they use such adversity's to build into strength that they use later in life. A most interesting comment was the fact that women tend to be interested in more things and have a variety of emotions where men tend to express only two emotions: they are either fine or mad.

Gail Sheehy also commented about the difficulties of men as they get older. While men chuckle about menopause for women, it appears that men are "much more uncertain about the threat of aging than women. And the basis seems to be the threat of losing their potency in all the areas of their lives."

She noted that men should take a long vacation to review their lives and what they would like to change in the second half of life.

LONGEVITY: (Met Life 1999) "In 1997 life expectancy for all persons combined rose to a new record high of 76.4 years. Additionally, average future lifetime for newborn girls and boys also established new peaks-79.3 years and 73.4 years, respectively. For girls the 1997 value surpassed the previous high of 79.1 years recorded in 1992 and 1996 while for boys new peaks have been consecutively recorded since 1994. Last year's longevity enhancements among men were larger than those for women-continuing the trend of the past few years. end quote.

As a young man growing up I noticed that most men were completely unprepared for retirement and so most didn't make it very long after retiring and losing all the status and power in their lives. This was especially true of middle class and lower class men who tended to be less resilient in their life choices. Though I think this is changing now (for example I was forced to retire at age 50 for health reasons) and I found that almost dying was one of the best things that ever happened to me. In fact, being forced to slow down from the frantic pace of my life before is one of the reasons I'm alive today. When I watch friends trying to outdo themselves in their 40s, 50s and beyond from who they were at 20 or 25, usually serious illness or a fatality winds up being the result. However, because of genetics and new medical techniques and diets and counseling and various therapies added to the incredible amount of intellectual and physical wealth that has been generated on earth at this point, people with enough intelligence, genetics and good diet and medical care might be living into their 100s by the millions this century worldwide the way things are presently going.
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4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds

 


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4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006

4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds

By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Climate Change Worsens Many of These Disasters

Figure 1. County-level map of federally-declared weather-related disasters between 2006 – 2011. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Midwest, and heavy rains and snows from Nor’easters, hurricanes, and other storms in the Northeast gave those two regions the most disaster declarations. An interactive version of this map that allows one to click and see the individual disasters by county is on the Environment America website.
by Jeff Masters, reposted from the WunderBlog
Since 2006 , federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people–or roughly four out of five Americans. That’s the remarkable finding of Environment America, who last week released a detailed report on extreme weather events in the U.S.
The report analyzed FEMA data to study the number of federally declared weather-related disasters. More than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather-related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006. Ten U.S. counties–six in Oklahoma, two in Nebraska, and one each in Missouri and South Dakota–have each experienced ten or more declared weather-related disasters since 2006. South Carolina was the only state without a weather-related disaster since 2006. end quote from:

4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds

If you will notice in the map above that only South Carolina was the only state completely free of any disasters since 2006. And two other states were mostly unaffected which were Colorado and Nevada. Every other state had serious Disasters and people seriously affected by these weather related disasters since 2006. Also, if you were choosing where to live where you might not lose your home or members of your family in a weather related disaster over the next decade or so this map might help you find  areas  and places the least affected by disasters between 2006 and now.

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Construction of the Largest U.S. Geothermal Heat Pump System Underway

Construction of the Largest U.S. Geothermal Heat Pump System Underway


A groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling project shows that these super-efficient heat pumps are gaining traction


Construction of the Ball State University geothermal project is underway
by Christopher Williams
Construction of the largest ground-source geothermal heating and cooling system in the United States is now underway and half complete.
The project, located on the Muncie, Indiana campus of Ball State University, will be large enough to heat and cool 47 buildings, replace four coal-fired boilers, and save the campus roughly $2 million a year over the 30-year life of the system.
The project will also help create 2,300 direct and indirect jobs throughout the construction period.
This is great news for a technology that has been available, efficient and economical since the 1940′s. In 1993, the EPA called it “the most efficient, environmentally clean, and cost effective space conditioning system today.” While the technology has been known for decades, the size of the Ball State project proves that geothermal installers and designers are gaining confidence to implement the technology on a massive scale and are winning the trust of risk-averse property owners.
The role of ground source heat pumps in the U.S.
Geothermal, or ground source heat pumps, can play a critical role in changing the U.S. energy mix by reducing the use of petroleum, coal and gas for on-site heating and cooling applications. The technologies we tend to think of when we use the term “renewable energy” — solar PV, wind, and hydro — usually do nothing to address thermal energy, which makes up roughly one third of our nation’s energy use.
For example, space heating represents 45% of energy use in the average single-family home in the U.S. — by far the single biggest use of energy for consumers. But consumers tend to think mostly about renewable electricity technologies, rather than heating and cooling technologies. Geothermal heat pumps can eliminate the need for on-site fossil fuel use for the heating of a property, particularly in the Northeast, where fuel oil is used to heat a large percentage of buildings.
The state of the geothermal heat pump industry


“Geothermal heat pump technology has grown to a point where people are beginning to understand what it is, what it offers in terms of benefits over conventional systems and that it can be successfully implemented at all levels, from the smallest single family residence to the large-scale retrofit at Ball State,” says Ryan Carda a geothermal engineering expert who co-founded Geo-Connections and who co-authored the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA) manual on geothermal design and installation. end quote from:Construction of the Largest U.S. Geothermal Heat Pump System Underway

Since Geothermal is one source that is potentially everywhere on earth if someone digs deep enough into the earth, it is a likely source of power for as long as the earth exists right along with solar power and wind power. Breaking down water into Hydrogen and oxygen and burning the two or turning water into fuel cells on one level is helpful and on another level it ends that waters existence to be recycled back into water for ocean, rivers, lakes, dams, clouds, rain and snow. So, even though burning hydrogen and oxygen from water is very tempting, in the end it just will tend to end life on earth from a lack of water. But geothermal is basically unlimited under the crust of the earth and closer to the surface in volcanic places where it comes closer to the surface in magma and heated water. So, anywhere people are over land, potentially geothermal energy could be tapped eventually for individual or public usage.
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NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year

 


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NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year

By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 22, 2012 at 12:29 pm

Global Ice Loss from 2003-2010 Could “Cover the Entire United States in One and Half Feet of Water”


Changes in ice thickness (in centimeters per year) during 2003-2010 as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, averaged over each of the world’s ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and Antarctica. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Colorado. [See figure of Greenland and Antarctica ice loss below.]
This piece was reposted from the NASA website
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth’s melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.
Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth’s land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica.
The total global ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and Earth’s glaciers and ice caps during the study period was about 4.3 trillion tons (1,000 cubic miles), adding about 0.5 inches (12 millimeters) to global sea level. That’s enough ice to cover the United States 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) deep.

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NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year

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On Jan. 6th 95% of country had below average snow cover

Masters: “It Is Very Likely That This Has Been the Driest First Week of January in U.S. Recorded History”

By Climate Guest Blogger on Jan 7, 2012 at 2:09 pm

Remarkably Dry and Warm Winter Due to “Most Extreme Configuration of the Jet Stream Ever Recorded”

by Jeff Masters, reposted from WunderBlog
Flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen.
It’s 2012, and the new year is ringing in another ridiculously wacky winter for the U.S. In Fargo, North Dakota [Thursday], the mercury soared to 55°F, breaking a 1908 record for warmest January day in recorded history. More than 99% of North Dakota had no snow on the ground this morning, and over 95% of the country that normally has snow at this time of year had below-average snow cover.

Departure of snow depth from average on January 6, 2011. More than 95% of the country that normally has snow at this time of year had below-average snow cover (yellow and orange colors.) Image credit: NOAA.
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Monday, February 27, 2012

The Family Rock

Life is strange. As you go through life it seems we all have all these different roles we have to play at every point. Sometimes, we are good at a particular role and we don't want that particular role to ever end. But it always does (or almost always). Like for example, at age 15 I decided I wanted to be a father and of all the careers in my life I have found it the most rewarding but at times also the most challenging. So, as we move forward through life we are needed by life in different ways to be different things and people to different people and groups. And it is hard to give up one role for another like I mentioned before many times just for the sake of efficiency and passing the torch to a younger generation rather than any other good reason.

And as we go further and further in life it seems to get even stranger. For example, I knew many people that were dying in their 20s, 30s and 40s while I was growing up in my teens during the 1960s and my mostly 20s during the 1970s. But now in my age group here in 2012 (63) around 54% of the people I grew up with (in the U.S) are still alive (if they lived to be 21 first). But if I take the same group and take it back to birth only 5% of the men my age are still alive because so many died between birth and age 21(which is when most people die from accident, injury or disease).

So now, even though most people passed on before 60 years of age in 1950, in 2012 over half of everyone my age is still alive here at age 63 (if they lived first to be 21). So now, my generation and everyone following have to decide what kind of precedent we are going to set for everyone coming up behind us. So, I guess the more gracefully we move on into our 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond that the more the human race will grow older and older and yet still be able to walk around and travel and maybe even to have all our marbles (or most of them) even when into our 90s or 100s. So, we all have a whole lot of research to do to see how millions and millions of us are going to live past 100 and still be able to walk, and have all our faculties. This seems to be the next barrier to overcome of getting millions and millions of people worldwide past 100, then 110, then 120, then 130, then 140, then 150 and beyond. Imagine what can be accomplished with millions and millions of  people with 100 years or more of knowledge and experience each unbroken by death.
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Global Climate Change: Reducing populations?

In several articles I have compiled here and commented on this month it appears that we can expect more weather anomalies "unexpected events" at any time anywhere on earth and that this is something that people will just have to get used to worldwide. The other long term effects of this increasing worldwide average temperature as it ever so slowly rises will likely be that over the next few thousand years it will tend to make humans shorter. Even now, the tallest of humans got that way from drinking milk from cattle and goats over hundreds of years. So, often the heart of a very tall man or woman is the same size as a much smaller man or woman and this tends to mean that the tallest humans might not live as long as shorter ones barring illness or accidents. So, as the temperature increases likely it will be harder on taller and larger people and so they might died earlier and survival conditions will change for mankind and so the average height for humans will thereby decrease slowly over thousands of years.


In regard to weather though Snowstorms in very low temperatures and  floods or tornadoes or hurricanes might seem on the surface to be the worst thing that one can endure, it turns out that that is only in the short run. It turns out that the very worst thing in the long run is a drought and droughts are one of the main reasons many past civilizations are no more. Because when a drought is too severe or lasts too long, food cannot be grown and water to drink cannot be found so people tend to fight over morsels of food and water and civilizations in the past ended over things like this.

However, as long as we have oil and gasoline and diesel emergency food and water can be shipped anywhere on earth to help out when things get bad. But oil and gas and diesel likely will be mostly gone from earth within 25 years or less at present rates of consumption which are sure increase because of the large numbers of middle class people worldwide who are expected to join the World Work Force between now and 2050. So, converting to other fuel sources in a somewhat orderly way will be necessary to avoid very serious food and water wars worldwide between now and 2050.

The Following is the kind of thing that can happen when completely unexpected weather events occur:
I have told this story before that happened between 1980 and 1983 in Mt. Shasta. Since it will be 30 years next year since 1983 it is getting harder to pinpoint when things happened when they are that far back sometimes. Anyway, my youngest son was about 5 or 6 so this would make it 1980 or 1981. We had ridden up to about 9,000 feet on dirt roads on the McCloud side of the Mt. Shasta by heading out Hiway 89 and then up Pilgrim Creek Rd. and then up Widow Springs Rd. on up passed Widow Springs and up to around 10,000 feet. I don't think the roads are open much above 8000 feet or 9000 feet any time of year now as likely the U.S. Forest Service has closed them up to Clear Creek Canyon and upwards up to Clear Creek. At that altitude on that year there still was blue ice underneath 10 foot or more of Snow turned to ice that Clear Creek was running out of. So, we walked up in the melted area where Clear Creek had melted out an ice cave to better see the blue ice. After that we walked back outside and since it was about 80 degrees that day and about 75 at altitude we hadn't brought any jackets or warm clothes with us from the 4 wheel drive truck that we all rode in to get up that high on the mountain on dirt roads. But we noticed off in the distance Lightning coming out of dark clouds. But this was a summer day wasn't it? We thought the most that could happen is that the lightning could strike and then we might get a little bath in the rain. So, the 3 children, my wife and I and a friend who owned the 4 wheel drive truck were very happy enjoying the beautiful view of around 40 to 50 or more miles from an altitude of 10,000 feet in several directions as we walked up higher on the mountain a few miles to around 10,500 feet. Meanwhile the lightning a few miles away from us was getting louder and we could see it hitting the mountain. And then it started to hail but we were all in shorts and short sleeve shirts and T-shirts and mountain boots for walking over rocks without turning your ankles on them. So, when it started to hail we all went under the largest tree we could find to shelter us from the hail in case it got big and injured us or the kids. As the lightning struck around us and the hail fell to the ground it never got bigger than about about 3/4 an inch across. So hail wasn't the problem. The problem was what came next was wind and heavy snow which we really couldn't believe was actually happening. If it had only been adults we could have run the mile or two back to the 4wheel drive truck and all our warmer clothes for emergencies. But we had children with us ages 5 and 7 and 9 years old approximately and we began to get scared because though we might piggy back the 5 and 7 year old down more quickly, the 9 year old was going to have to fend for himself because he was too big for any of us to carry on slippery rocks in the heavy snow that was falling now. The real problem was that the 9 year old lost hope and started to get hypothermic and hallucinate from the cold as he was thin and scared and delusional. So, we sort of had to be like Marine Sargeants and command him to walk down even though he was cold and having hypothermia if he wanted to live. So one of us held his hand so he didn't fall and slip as the rocks and now soon 5 to 10 inches of snow was getting sort of treacherous for all of us. Remember this was summer time so this was very surrealistic for us because at 3500 feet it was at least 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. But up here the wind was blowing 20 to 30 miles per hour and a blizzard  with 5 to 10 inches of snow on slippery rocks. So, surrealistic would be the right word. But dangerous in the extreme for the kids. Finally, we made it back to the truck and put it into 4 wheel drive and slipped and slided down the road and out of the snow. What did we learn from this? IF YOU ARE IN THE MOUNTAINS ALWAYS HAVE WARM CLOTHES BECAUSE MOUNTAINS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN WEATHER ANY TIME OF YEAR!

So, this is a good lesson in regard to being in remote places. If you are too warm you can always take clothes off to cool down. But if it gets below freezing and snows on you if you don't have warm clothes you and your kids might die! As weather goes through fits around the world because of Global Climate Change more and more of us who survive the next 20 to 50 years will always be prepared wherever we are on earth  any time of year!
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2012: Driest first week in U.S. in History?



  • begin quote from:

    Why the energy industry is so invested in climate change denial

     
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The earth seen from space, 4 January 2012, by Nasa
The Americas, seen from space on 4 January 2012. Photograph: Nasa Goddard Photo
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet – as we shall see – it's unfortunately largely invisible to us.
In compensation, though, we have some truly beautiful images made possible by new technology. Last month, for instance, Nasa updated the most iconic photograph in our civilization's gallery: "Blue Marble", originally taken from Apollo 17 in 1972. The spectacular new high-def image shows a picture of the Americas on 4 January, a good day for snapping photos because there weren't many clouds.
It was also a good day because of the striking way it could demonstrate to us just how much the planet has changed in 40 years. As Jeff Masters, the web's most widely read meteorologist, explains:
"The US and Canada are virtually snow-free and cloud-free, which is extremely rare for a January day. The lack of snow in the mountains of the western US is particularly unusual. I doubt one could find a January day this cloud-free with so little snow on the ground throughout the entire satellite record, going back to the early 1960s."
In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history" end quote.

One of the reasons there were so few clouds and snow in the western United States was that the Arctic Air mass that usually stays fairly well stabilized at the North Pole became destabilized because of how much ice melted off this summer and fall. So, the arctic subzero temperatures "FEll?" down from the Arctic into Siberia, Russia, Europe and North Africa. However, next year if the ice keeps melting off the north pole like it has been it could just as easily "Fall off" the North pole next year or the year after down into Canada, the U.S. and points south with snow for several weeks as far south as Florida, Cuba, Southern California and Baja California, for example. So, the weather anomaly may become more commonplace over the years for cold arctic air to "Fall off" further south one way or another in December, January or February because melting ice in the north has destabilized normal wind and weather at the North Pole because of Global Climate Change. Or a totally new anomaly might take place as the north pole melts off further and further each year. So, I guess the best thing to say is either that there is no normal anymore or that there will now be "new" normals.

And the sad thing is that the Western U.S. still looks like the photo above because snowfalls are mostly below normal west of the Rockies and south of about Portland or Eugene, Oregon. So, if you are going skiing look up how much snow is there before you go. You might be very surprised this year. Where I live on the Northern California coast rainfall levels are averaging about 1/2 of normal or average of what we should expect this time of year since October. Since our rainy season is only September to May or June usually we now only have March or April to make up for the loss of rain so far this season.

The following word button  will prove will take to you the following quote which I found very interesting:"

Remarkably Dry and Warm Winter Due to “Most Extreme Configuration of the Jet Stream Ever Recorded” end quote from "will prove" website above.


Also, this "most extreme configuration of the Jet Stream ever recorded also created: 2012 European cold wave which killed between 500 and 1000 people all over Russia, Eastern Europe and caused untold havoc as far south as North Africa. 

When I saw movies of an icebreaker breaking ice on the Seine River in Paris so people would stop running across the river and falling in through the ice and also saw a guy snowboarding down a hill in the middle of Rome I knew this was a very strange event indeed which we both now know was caused directly by the "most extreme configuration of the Jet Stream ever recorded".

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Merril Lynch says Oil prices could climb to $200 within 5 years

Analysis: Oil price rise raises specter of global recession

begin quote: "Wall Street Bank Merrill Lynch said this week that oil prices could climb to $200 over the next five years."  end quote. 


If this is true since gas is right now over $5 a gallon is at some stations in Los Angeles  and since gasoline in England is almost $10 a gallon, likely at $200 a barrel it would then mean around $10 a gallon gas in the U.S. and around $15 dollars a gallon gas or more in England and the rest of Europe. If this happens it does eventually look like a world wide recession would be the outcome at that point.


As I see it the longer that the tension with Iran and Syria exists the more likely the outcome is worldwide recession or outright worldwide depression within 5 years unless there is a way to quickly resolve the Iran and Syrian issue. I think because of this it is possible that Israel and Europe eventually may attempt a quick military fix of these two problems.  I think all of Europe and the U.S. and even China might really want a quick end to this problem because the whole world economy will really suffer the longer all this drags on.


On top of all this the U.S. because of its governmental design and natural resources tends to be more adaptable and able to go through a deleveraging a little quicker than Europe. And Europe will tend to go through deleveraging quicker than China will. So, likely in the long run this oil problem on top of deleveraging is going to hurt first Europe and then China more than it has hurt the U.S. already because the U.S. is now into a fragile but relatively solid recovery in the long term. But even the U.S. won't be helped by the increase in Oil prices.

However, check out this next quote from above article:
"
Few have forgotten that in 2008, within six months of hitting its all-time high, oil plunged as low as $35 a barrel with the onset of the global credit crisis.
In the United States, demand for refined oil products is close to its lowest level in nearly 15 years, indicating that motorists are cutting back their mileage." end quote.

So, how come if the U.S. demand is the lowest in 15 years already and likely the demand is getting lower by the day as the price rises, what is driving the prices upward? Some say speculation and others say Iran and Syria and the Strait of Hormuz. Whoever the real culprits are you can bet the world isn't going to be nice to them now anyway you look at it. Rich nations and rich corporations both have dirty tricks departments that secretly act under these circumstances and often people disappear in times like these. Just study history and you will see what I mean. I don't think I have seen times as strange as these since the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Kennedy Administration. Only instead of the problem being the Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba it is the potential nuclear missiles in Iran and the genocide in Syria.
But if Israel actually feels its very existence is threatened by Iran, one of those countries might not be around this time next year. Time will tell.


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Sunday, February 26, 2012

2012 European cold wave

 This following from Wikipedia is the best compilation I have seen of what has happened to Europe, North Africa and Russia since the Arctic Blast from Siberia hit them all first on January 27th, 2012. 

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2012 European cold wave

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Early 2012 European cold wave
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A map of the land temperature in Europe between January 25 and February 1
Starting date 27 January 2012
Region affected Europe and North Africa
Effects
Number of deaths 590 [1]
Records
Minimum temperature −39.2 °C (−38.6 °F)
Date 2 February
Location Kuusamo, Finland
The 2012 European cold wave is a deadly cold wave that started on 27 January 2012 and is bringing snow and freezing temperatures to much of the European continent. Over 550 deaths have been reported.[1] Particularly low temperatures hit several Eastern European countries, reaching as low as −35 °C (−31 °F). The heaviest snow was recorded in the Balkan region, and in Northern Europe, as low as −39.2 °C (−38.6 °F).

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  • 1 Countries affected
    • 1.1 Effects
      • 1.1.1 Eastern, Northern and Western Europe
      • 1.1.2 Mediterranean Sea, Danube and Balkan
    • 1.2 Europe
    • 1.3 Africa
  • 2 References
  • 3 External links

[edit] Countries affected

[edit] Effects

[edit] Eastern, Northern and Western Europe

The northern half of Europe was affected primarily by greater cold and - except for a period of early snow - low precipitation. The snowfall of the third week of January was up to 1 m (3.3 ft) of snow in a few days, particularly affecting Slovakia and Bulgaria. On Sunday, January 22nd, heavy snowfall in northern Námestovo caused an ice rink to collapse under the weight of the snow. In Kuusamo, in the hills of eastern Finland, temperatures of −39.2 °C (−38.6 °F) were recorded on February 2nd, the lowest temperatures in Europe. The village Kvilda in Sumava (Czech Republic) recorded temperatures of −38.1 °C (−36.6 °F) on February 3rd, the lowest temperatures in Central Europe.
Ukraine was especially affected by the onset of cold weather[2][3], at the end of January, the temperatures fell below −30 °C (−22 °F), at the time the snow was at least 30 cm (12 in), on February 3rd over 100 cm (3.3 ft), and by the end of the first week of February, over 130 cm (4.3 ft) was recorded. The Ukrainian government announced that many of the public safety issues it was encountering were related to alcohol abuse in the context of the dangerously cold weather.
The Baltic states also recorded temperatures down to −30 °C (−22 °F). Moscow announced that, since the beginning of the last week of January, night temperatures ranged down to −25 °C (−13 °F).
The Mediterranean coast of southern France was covered in deep snow by the end of January. Corsica was buried under 40 cm (1.3 ft) of snow, and at times there were as many as 14,000 homes without electricity.
In early February, heavy snow pile-ups hit the Helsinki region. Belgium also was surprised by the snowfall. At the same time, the snow reached the British Isles, causing interruptions at London-Heathrow airport where up to 10 cm (3.9 in) of snow impeded many scheduled flights. In Germany, from Magdeburg down, the Elbe-Havel canal became entirely impassable due to ice, as well as the Main-Danube Canal at certain points. The island Spiekeroog had to be sent supplies via aircraft for only the second time in its history: the ferry was unavailable due to heavy ice conditions in the North Sea on February 7th 2012. On the Lake(?) on February 7th, catamaran speed-boat traffic between Friedrichshafen and Konstanz adjusted due to icing of the Constance passenger ship port until further notice. This port hadn't been frozen to a similar extent since the winter of 1962-1963.

[edit] Mediterranean Sea, Danube and Balkan

Italy, the Balkans and the Danube were in addition to cold weather also affected by heavy snowfall; Erfrierungsopfer also report the majority of countries of this area, as well as extensive traffic delays and economic consequences. The cold wave covered the Maghreb in the western Mediterranean, as well as the Aegean, the Turkey and the Levant in the eastern part of the Mediterranean area. Bologna reported on 3 February 25 cm (9.8 in) of snow and Rome solid snow, Fabriano/brands on 7 February, snow up to 80 cm (2.6 ft). Even Turkey, Spain and Portugal fell to low temperatures in early February, the temperature sometimes considerably below the freezing point; snow fell in Mallorca not seen since 1956, and even in Algiers, Algeria, in southern Tunisia in Gabes, it snowed for the first time in 70 years, on 6 February in Tripoli, Libya. In Italy, there was extensive power outages, phased up to 120,000 people were without electricity as well as traffic congestion, where the military are used for snow removal had, in Rome, broke before the weekend of 4/5 February, the traffic completely together. Until the second week of February reigned throughout northern and central Italy tiefwinterliche conditions, particularly in the brand , in Umbria , the Abruzzi and Emilia-Romagna. In Rome, collapsed after the snowfalls of 11-12 February again along the road, at the Fiumicino airport 2,000 passengers had to spend the night in the airport building.

[edit] Europe

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View of a street in Bucharest on February 13
  •  Armenia – Zvartnots and Shirak international airports are closed due to heavy snowfall.[4]
  •  Azerbaijan – On 8 February, temperature in Baku dropped to −14 °C (7 °F) breaking a 42-year-old record.[5] Baku international airport also suffered a serious problems and had to cancel some flights.
  •  Belarus – Early in the day on 30 Januray, subzero cold spread widely, data accessed by AccuWeather showed.[6] According to meteoinfo.by, on the night Feb 11 - Feb 12 in Brahin temperature dropped to −34.3 °C (−29.7 °F). According to National Agency BielTA, from the January 1st, more than 180 people died in domestic fires. Total number of casualties remain unknown.[7]
  •  Bulgaria – Nearly 150 cm (4.9 ft) of snow has fallen, with one man dying of hypothermia as his car was covered in snow.[8] Meteoalarm issued snow warnings for western Bulgaria, wind warnings for central parts and rain warnings for eastern areas of the country.[9] Temperatures have been consistently under −10 °C (14 °F) for more than a week with a low reading of −30 °C (−22 °F) on two different occasions in Knezha. The wall of the Ivanovo dam in southern Haskovo Province broke, flooding the village of Biser and killing 11 people in addition to inflicting serious infrastructure damage. At least 16 other deaths have been reported throughout the country due to frostbite or exhaustion.
  •  Croatia – As of 6 February, 3 people died,[10] with concerns of many villages being cut off, especially near Vrgorac.
  •  France – On the 6 February, BBC News reported 4 deaths, and 43 regions in France on high alert for 'exceptional' weather conditions. On 11 February, the Six Nations Championship game between France and Ireland, was postponed shortly before kick-off, due to the pitch freezing, as temperatures plummeted beneath −10 °C (14 °F).

Piazza del Popolo, Rome under the snowfall
  •  Italy – Rome experienced a rare intense snowfall, and many of Venice's canals have frozen over, the heavy snowfall occurred also in the Appennines.[11] On 6 February, the Italian rail network may face legal action, due to many passengers being stranded on trains over the weekend. Temperatures plummeted to −21 °C (−6 °F) on 7 February, in the north of the country. At least 54 people have died [12]
  •  Georgia – On the 7 February Georgian press reported that the country was experiencing the coldest winter in nearly 50 years, with important water bodies, such as Mtkvari and Tbilisi sea freezing over. [13]

Tisza River near Szeged, Hungary
  •  Greece – Many homeless people froze to death and a dam on the Evros river burst due to pressure. Temperatures also plummered to −25 °C (−13 °F) in the northwest city of Florina.
  •  Latvia – The lowest temperature was recorded at the Strenči meteorological station, hitting −34.2 °C (−29.6 °F) on 5 February.[14] For several days not a single meteorological station reported a temperature above −20 °C (−4 °F). Because of the severe cold wave, some regions in Latvia experienced a shortage of power supply,[14] an increased number of domestic fires were reported.
  •  Malta – The lowest temperature at grass level was measured at Zebbug. The temperature was that of −2.4 °C (27.7 °F). It was measured on Wednesday. 8 February.
  •  Netherlands – A cold wave was registered in the Netherlands, with a low of −18.9 °C (−2.0 °F) in De Bilt, the lowest recorded since 1956 [15], and a national low of −22.8 °C (−9.0 °F) in Lelystad, the lowest temperature recorded all over the Netherlands since 1985. [16]. A homeless man was frozen to death on February 2. [17] People have been ice-skating on the canals of Amsterdam.
  •  Poland – Early in the day on 30 January, subzero cold spread widely over Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and eastern Poland, data accessed by AccuWeather.com showed. [6] From the January 1st 2012, 103 people froze to death. Fire and Rescue Service reported 360 domestic fires during one night (Feb 11 - Feb 12), and almost 12000 fire accidents this year. Reports state 107 people died in flames with 550 more suffer various degrees of burns. Due to carbon monoxide poisoning 24 people died.[18]

Winter of 2012 in south of Bucharest, Romania
  •  Romania – At least 80 people have died.[19] In some areas, the bitter cold followed heavy falls of snow, among them the late-week dump of 5 m (16 ft)[6] On the 11 February, the Danube was reportedly completely frozen over.

Winter in Volgograd Oblast, Russia
  •  Russia – European Russia experienced widespread subzero cold.[6] The Ministry of Health and Social Development stated on 13 February that the cold had killed 215 people since 1 January.[20]
  •  Serbia – Sjenica set −32 °C (−26 °F), early on the morning of 9 February. In Serbia at least 50,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in mountainous areas.[21] Gas supplies are running low.[22] On the 8 February, electricity consumption broke a record, standing at 162.67 million kWh, so the government mandated a shutdown of all non-essential industries and decorative lightning. [23] The death toll has risen to 20. [22]
  •  Spain – Palma, Majorca registered the most important snow episode[clarification needed] since 1956.[24]
  •  Catalonia – Heavy snowfall and winds of 175 km/h (109 mph) were reported in Portbou as temperatures dropped to −23 °C (−9 °F).
  •  Turkey – On the 31 January, heavy snow blanketed Istanbul, covering the Blue Mosque. 102 flights were cancelled at Ataturk International Airport. Nearly 140,000 people made homeless by the 2011 Van earthquake, were reported as struggling to cope with temperatures of −4 °C (25 °F) and over 30 centimetres of snow.
  •  Ukraine – More than 100 homeless people have died as temperatures dropped as low as −35 °C (−31 °F).[21] Gas supplies are running low.[11] The cold led to more than 600 people being treated for frostbite and hypothermia within three days, according to officials. Nearly 24,000 people sought shelter during the same three days, the BBC reported. In western Ukraine, Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk dipped to −28 °C (−18 °F).[6] Ukrainian health officials stated (on February 16) 151 people had died because of the cold[25], with alcohol regularly a contributing factor[25], the highest number in Europe.[2]
  •  United Kingdom – The Met Office issued a severe weather warning as heavy snow fell across much of the country on 4 February, disrupting roads and flights.[26] Temperatures fell to −11.8 °C (10.8 °F) in the early hours of February 8.[27] More heavy snow fell overnight in England on 9-10 February. On the night of 10–11 February, the temperature in England[specify] fell to −15.6 °C (3.9 °F), the coldest temperatures since Boxing Day in 2010.[28]

[edit] Africa


Winter in Algeria
  •  Algeria – The north of the country awoke to a blanket of snow. The average temperature at this particular time of year being 9 °C (48 °F).
  •  Libya – On the 6 February snow fell down in Tripoli which is a very rare event.[29]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Frost Europe reaps 590 people" (in arabic). al Jazeera. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b Homeless suffer in icy Ukraine as temperatures sink, BBC News (10 February 2012)
  3. ^ UN to give $100,000 to help Ukrainians suffering from severe cold, Kyiv Post (17 February 2012)
  4. ^ "Snow to continue in Armenia well into night".
  5. ^ "Мировые СМИ пишут о небывалых морозах в Азербайджане" (in Russian).
  6. ^ a b c d e "Europe cold wave turns deadly". AccuWeather. 2012-01-3. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
  7. ^ "Lowest temerature of the past 50 years in Belarus" (in Polish). Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  8. ^ "One dead as heavy snow hits southeast Europe". France24. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  9. ^ "MeteoAlarm warnings for Bulgaria". Meteoalarm. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Snijeg prijeti novim kolapsom,hladnoća odnijela treću žrtvu" (in Croatian). 6 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  11. ^ a b BBC news - Freezing Europe hit by Russian gas shortage
  12. ^ "Maltempo: 54 morti dall'inizio di febbraio" (in Italian).
  13. ^ "Tbilisi Sea freezes for the first time in 50 years" (in (Russian)). Itar-Tass. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
  14. ^ a b Elektroapgādes traucējumi tikai 50 mājsaimniecībām tvnet.lv (Latvian)
  15. ^ http://www.knmi.nl/klimatologie/lijsten/koudegolven.html
  16. ^ http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2732434/laagste-temperatuur-in-27-jaar-gemeten.html
  17. ^ http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/zwerver-doodgevroren-in-wageningen/IWIlbb!3Y7fGK49dbA8Ak9PAy3wuQ/
  18. ^ "Cold wave brings more deaths" (in (Polish)). Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  19. ^ http://www.romanialibera.ro/actualitate/europa/europa-ingheata-590-de-morti-in-urma-valului-de-frig-253337.html
  20. ^ Cold kills 215 people in Russia since Jan. 1, Kyiv Post (13 February 2012)
  21. ^ a b BBC news - Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine
  22. ^ a b [1]
  23. ^ [2]
  24. ^ Diario de Mallorca. "Palma vive la nevada más importante desde 1956 - Diario de Mallorca". Diariodemallorca.es. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
  25. ^ a b Ukraine's death toll from cold spell reaches 151, Kyiv Post (16 February 2012)
  26. ^ "Heavy snow falling across much of UK". BBC News (BBC). 4 February 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  27. ^ "UK freezes as night-time temperatures fall". BBC. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  28. ^ "Coldest night of the winter so far". Met Office. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  29. ^ "Snow in Tripoli, but little chance in Malta".

[edit] end quote from wikipedia

Temperatures are obviously getting better in Europe as you can see by the following map

for February 26th 2012 (today)

Europe temperature map  end quote from Weather.com
Along the top of the map are the co-ordinates of temperatures in both Celsius on top and Fahrenheit on the bottom with what different colors mean. Obviously, with temperatures this high during the day in most places snow is now melting during the day and likely the worst is over in most places.

  

 

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