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Winter Olympics so cold audiences that walked out of opening ceremony

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/06/winter-olympics-cold-weather-short-list/310793002/ Pyeongchang, the South Korean city hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics, is so cold that audiences walked out of a rehearsal for Friday’s opening ceremony. (The wind chill was 7 below zero.) These Winter Olympics will easily be the coldest since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, experts say. Team USA will wear high-tech heated […]

Record-breaking cold? PyeongChang braces for frigid weather ahead of Olympics

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/winter-olympics-2018/record-breaking-cold-pyeongchang-braces-frigid-weather-ahead-olympics-n844836 PYEONGCHANG NEWS WINTER OLYMPICS 2018 — PYEONGCHANG FEB 5 2018, 4:52 PM ET Record-breaking cold? PyeongChang braces for frigid weather ahead of Olympics by MIGUEL ALMAGUER PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The only thing more extreme than the Olympic sports is the weather here. The Winter Olympics are slated to begin on Friday as temperatures […]

STUDY in Nature: Global wealth redistribution, economic ‘degrowth’ needed to fight ‘global warming’

Via: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456138/environmentalists-push-global-wealth-redistribution by WESLEY J. SMITH February 6, 2018 9:00 AM The environmental movement wants to make the rich West much poorer so that the destitute can become richer. Rather than improve the plight of the developing world through such crucial projects as constructing an Africa-wide electrical grid, environmentalists say significant progress will have to wait until the […]

Study Makes Bizarre Claim That ‘Global Warming’ Could Alter People’s Personalities

By MICHAEL BASTASCH A new Columbia Business School study is out with the latest bizarre claim about man-made global warming — it could alter people’s personalities. “As climate change continues across the world, we may also observe concomitant changes in human personality,” reads the study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday. It’s only the latest in […]

Hillary Clinton: Global warming is sexist: Women Will Be ‘Primarily Burdened With The Problems Of Climate Change’

Via: http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/05/hillary-clinton-women-climate-change/ By JUSTIN CARUSO “I would say that particularly for women, you’re absolutely right, they will bear the brunt of looking for the  food, looking for the firewood, looking for the place to migrate to when all of the grass is finally gone as the desertification moves south and you have to keep moving your livestock for your crops are […]

World Leading Authority: Sea Level ‘Absolutely Stable’ – UN IPCC ‘False’

By P Gosselin on 4. February 2018 German-speaking readers will surely want to save the text of an interview conducted by the online Baseler Zeitung (BAZ) of Switzerland with world leading sea level expert Prof. Nils-Axel Mörner. Photo right: Nils-Axel Mörner Few scientists have scientifically publishedas much on sea level as Mörner has. Yet because he rejects the alarmist scenarios touted by the […]

DESPITE RECORD LOSSES IN 2017, GLOBAL CATASTROPHE LOSSES ARE TRENDING DOWN

Date: 06/02/18 Roger Pielke Jr., Risk Frontiers Despite record weather-related catastrophe losses last year, since 1990 total global catastrophe losses are down by about one third Last July, I observed here that the world had recently experienced an era of unusually low disasters and that streak of good luck was going to end sometime. Little could I […]