Times Online (UK), January 4:
Arctic air and record snow falls gripped the northern hemisphere today, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.
There were few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralysed life in Beijing and threatened the Florida orange crop. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze, Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snowdrifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (-13F).
The article goes on with example after example demonstrating that we’re currently experiencing the worst winter in many decades.
The reason? Global warming, of course:
Guo Hu, the head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, linked this week’s conditions to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming.
Folks, it doesn’t matter what kind of weather we have — it’s all because of global warming. No evidence required, because the meme is firmly entrenched.
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