I just watched this being reported, on the ABC America World News, on their weather report
[being broadcast in Australia, on SBS1]....

Texas, is seeing the coldest temp's in one hundred [100] years.

"And across the nation" [in the U.S.],

73% of the nation is covered by snow.

This has never before been seen, in the U.S.

Lets just say it again,
73% of the U.S. is currently covered by snow.

And this has never before been seen, in the U.S.



And once more,
73% of the U.S. is currently covered by snow.

And this has never before been seen, in the U.S.




And 'who' does Yadda blame for these record coldest ever temps in the U.S. ???



We have to blame something for this record breaking cold weather [ALL OVER THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE] !!

And i blame GLOBAL WARMING !



And an outraged Greta Thunberg say's......

"How dare you!"

What a fruit cake !

You're confusing weather with climate there fella.

An ice age?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-17/acropolis-covered-by-rare-snow-as-cold-sn...

Yadda wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 1:38pm:



It is just the weather, its a short term event. What part of short term event vs long term trend (apart from all the words) don't you understand?


Its even in your link "Rare heavy snow"

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 1:44pm:



So 'rare', that these 'rare' 'cold snap' events continue, again, and again to be regularly witnessed.



Yeah, over the past couple of years now, the world has been witnessing a repeated series of intensely cold weather events,
during this scientifically recognised period of intense GLOBAL WARMING.      

And all over the world, sea levels are rising, and we have all witnessed the inundation of many coastal cities around the world, threatening to make them uninhabitable !


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Your crew, keep going on about sea level rise.

Where!!

Where have we seen global coastal cities being inundated by the sea level rises ?

How will Monk ever explain it?

Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 2:12pm:


The way any intelligent, well-educated person would: cold weather.

Yadda wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 2:17pm:



Indeed, I mean fancy that snow in the US in winter, who ever would have thought of it.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 2:38pm:



dear Pecca,
there are now 444 pages of such record cold events
in the new mini Ice Age thread.
This is not a one off weather event.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1464603949/6645#6645

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 2:23pm:


We seem to have 5 or 6 100 year events every year. It may all work out if we have none for 20,000 years.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 6:28pm:


How far back do the records go, Bobby?

I'm curious.

What is biden doing about this ?

Sprintcyclist wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 10:08pm:


What is Biden doing? Nothing. Why? Because most of Texas is on its own power grid, a decision made in the 1930s to avoid federal regulation. This means both that it avoids federal regulation and that it cannot import more electricity during periods of high demand. As temperatures began to drop, people turned up electric heaters and needed more power than engineers had been told to design for, just as the ice shut down gas-fired plants and wind turbines froze. Demand for natural gas spiked and created a shortage. Of course, this is being spun to disparage the New Green Deal but the frozen wind turbines were the smallest factor in the crisis. They supply only about 10% of the state’s power in the winter.

I can only hope that we get a record cold weather here in the Capricornia region during Winter. Hopefully, we will have a heavy rainfall for Autumn.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 10:14pm:


They'll have to do with their open fires and candles, won't they? 

Neferti wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 9:22am:



It's a minor storm -
just a few snowflakes according to AiA.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 9:38am:



It works both ways -
how can anyone say that there's global warming?

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 10:20am:


Brian - I can't be silent when I see the Earth entering a mini Ice Age.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 9:56am:



Answer the question, Bobby:

How can you make any assumptions based on such an incredibly small period of time?

It's not Global Warming, it's not an Ice Age.

It is Extreme & Erratic: getting hotter, getting colder, getting dryer, getting wetter, getting windier, getting more 'shaky' underground with quakes, Volcanos, etc - all in packages.

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Neferti wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 9:22am:


Last Winter, I went to bed with 10 tea light candles burning on my desk 5 metres away from where I was sleeping. They had been burning since the hour after sundown. The warmth that they provided kept me from shivering in the early morning (even with them gone out).

I am not saying that it would be enough to keep warm with candles and fireplaces. But, if you can keep the room at above 15 degrees, you are doing well.

Texans face yet another day of misery as families struggle with unheated homes and water problems

By Travis Caldwell and Keith Allen, CNN

Updated 1127 GMT (1927 HKT) February 18, 2021


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/18/weather/texas-winter-storm-thursday/index.htm...



Monk has a lot of explaining to do.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2021 at 10:24pm:


Monk's parents are the ones who have a lot of explaining to do ...

AiA wrote on Feb 19^th, 2021 at 10:47am:



Monk has to apologise now.

So Bobby. have you worked out the difference between "local weather" and "global climate" yet?

Mother whose 11yo son died in Texas freeze sues Electric Reliability Council of Texas and Entergy Corp for $126 million

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2021 at 1:00pm:



"ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation,[12][13] and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.[14]"

Source: wiki.

So ERCOT is not an electricity provider. They do however operate the grid.

So I think they are after the wrong people.

Energy providers in Texas do not have to stockpile supplies for an emergency. And the Fed's limited the price that providers could sell for.

"with respect to any Specified Resource that is an ERCOT Generation Resource or Settlement Only Generator whose operator notifies ERCOT that the unit is unable, or expected to be unable, to produce at its maximum output due to an emission or effluent limit in any federal environmental permit, ERCOT shall ensure that such Specified Resourceis only allowed to exceed any such limit during a period for which ERCOT has declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 2 or Level 3.  This incremental amount of restricted capacity would be offered at a price no lower than $1,500/MWh.  Once ERCOT declares that such an EEA Level 2 or Level 3 event has ended, the unit is required to immediately return to operation within its permitted limits; "

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%20202%28c%29%20Emergency...

So they should sell at a point no one was prepared to pay?