Cold Weather turns Lethal in US

[Daltron]

On Monday morning it was colder at Chicago airport, a record-breaking 26 degrees below zero - or 42 below with wind chill - than it was at the South Pole, where it was minus 23. The National Weather Service warned that “potentially life-threatening wind chills will continue through [until] Tuesday morning".

Despite a fleet of snow ploughs working on the runways, the airport had cancelled 1600 flights before midday. Most schools were closed and many workers were allowed to work from home. Even the city’s prison system was forced to accommodate the terrible cold, allowing inmates due for release to stay on overnight if they chose.

Around Chicago six "warming centres" were established for homeless people, and the city’s largest homeless shelter, Pacific Garden Mission, prepared to break its record of overnight visitors, 1016, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Read full article here.

I can't believe some people actually deny that global warming is happening. Our own prime minister even said that global warming was "absolute crap" in 2009, which astounds me.

I hope all US Habboxers are safe and warm!

[lemons]

I wish the uk had this weather

[Jordan]

It looks really bad. I read somewhere that it is actually colder there than on Mars!

[sex]

id cling to the radiator and hug my laptop

[karter]

Minus 50 degrees Celsius in international falls, Minnesota

[Chippiewill]

inb4 dan comes in claiming this is the first signs of an ice age and that global warming is a myth without providing credible evidence.

[sex]

Minus 50 degrees Celsius in international falls, Minnesota

celsius?????// omg
the day after tomorrow

[FlyingJesus]

THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD STOPPED SPINNING or whatever that ridiculously bad film said happened

[Chippiewill]

THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD STOPPED SPINNING or whatever that ridiculously bad film said happened

You just described every disaster movie from the past twenty years. Was it day after tomorrow? My favourite scene from that movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPUjGNTi24

[-:Undertaker:-]

Well this is very clearly man-made global warming because we've never had extreme weather events before. I call upon all our politicians the world over to impose a worldwide carbon tax on we serfs before we destroy ourselves with our cheap flights to Spain. I also call on David Cameron, Al Gore, Barry Obama and other world leaders/leading scientists to fly to the Hague in private chartered jets and lecture us on how we shouldn't fly because we're killing the polar bears. With the unhypocriticial messages given by Gore, Prince Charles and other world figures - we are sure to get the message right out there to the citizens of our Brave New World.

What else? Ahhhhh yeah, the BBC will cover all of my proposals (of that there is no doubt) but I also think it should almost certainly have wall-to-wall coverage of that appalling Australian PM Tony Abbott and should invite journalists from the Guardian, the Observer, the 'Independent' (all tolerant and non-biased papers, not like those nasty right wing papers that the great unwashed outside of Islington, Twickenham and Camden read) to bash him live on air and call him a climate denier. See, this will expose him as being on the same level as the Nazis and will expose him for what he really is - a nasty right winger that's backed by Murdoch. Because the National Socialists really were right wing afterall.

With this proposed climate tax, it's sure that hurricanes and extreme weather events will stop and we'll be able to build a new, green and equal world that's powered by windmills. Workers of the world, unite!

Statement released on behalf of -:Undertaker:-,
Prepared and edited by Caroline Lucas. Climate Facts provided by distinguised and infallible organisations such as the IPCC, the Met Office & the University of East Anglia.