A rare blizzard has struck the Spanish coast and Balearic Islands in some of the worst weather seen in 50 years.

The snow storm swept in on the holiday island of Majorca after causing havoc in Barcelona, the Costa Brava and parts of the French Mediterranean coast.

Roads were closed as up to four inches of snow fell across Majorca and many residents and holidaymakers stayed indoors.

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Reading the article by Al Gore today in The New York Times is hilarious.

He can’t, won’t, and unable to admit, his science is flawed the hoax is over.

One section he wrote that, “we have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and…”

The problem with this sentence is we don’t have to look back to see the fraud against our children and grandchildren.

We can look presently at the fraud of climategate and the financial fraud that continues in DC, Wall Street and Global Banking systems to confirm the financial rape of world markets.

The road with Al Gore is not paved with good intentions!

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Some scientists this week stunned much of the world suffering the coldest winter for 30 years by claiming last month was the ­hottest January the world has ever seen.

The remarkable claim, based on global satellite data, follows Arctic temperatures that brought snow, ice and travel chaos to millions in the UK. The same case for all of the U.S…. Record cold and snow fall has occurred across all of the United States with the exception of Hawaii.

In my view, this data is either faulty or manufactured to make it look like it shouldn’t.

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Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an increasingly sceptical public.

At stake is public belief that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet, and political momentum to act as governments struggle to agree a climate treaty which could direct trillions of dollars into renewable energy, away from fossil fuels.

Public conviction of global warming’s risks may have been undermined by an error in a U.N. panel report exaggerating the pace of melt of Himalayan glaciers and by the disclosure of hacked emails revealing scientists sniping at sceptics, who leapt on these as evidence of data fixing.

Scientists said they must explain better how a freezing winter this year in parts of the northern hemisphere and a break in a rising trend in global temperatures since 1998 can happen when heat-trapping gases are pouring into the atmosphere.

“There is a lack of consensus,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998.

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The climate-change campaign is in catastrophic free fall.

Nearly every day brings a new embarrassment or retraction for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the supposed gold standard for “consensus” science. The withdrawal this week of BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar from the main US business lobby for greenhouse-gas controls is the latest political blow to the campaign.

The anti-warming lobby long demonized skeptics as the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers while warning of climate “tipping points.” Now, the “Climategate” scandal that broke in November is looking like a true tipping point: The leaked e-mails have done to the climate-change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam War debate 40 years ago — changed the narrative decisively.

For years, skeptics have been pointing out serious defects or gross exaggerations in the climate narrative — glaciers that weren’t actually melting; weak or incomplete data in the records of surface temperature that supposedly proved unprecedented warming; a complete lack of backup for claims that storms and drought are growing more severe. Plus, global temperatures have been flat for the last decade — increasingly falsifying the computer models that project our doom.

The media long ignored every criticism, and generally joined the climate campaigners in denouncing skeptics for their turpitude. Now it’s playing catch-up.

New York Post

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