Today In The USA

It must really suck to be Al Gore right about now.

Just as he was on the verge of getting his “carbon credits” business off to a world-wide start, along comes Climategate and suddenly folks are starting to actually question the religion of man-made global warming.

Then winter sets in and bitch-slaps Gore with what is shaping up as a record breaking round of really cold weather.

Here are but a few examples of news reports that pretty much gore, Al Gore, and in the you-know-where:

From ABC.com:

Hundreds Rescued as Heavy Snow Slams Britain

Cold Snap Gripping Gulf States Threatens Fla. Crop

From CBS.com:

Farmers Race to Save Crops amid Cold Snap

Cat Found Frozen Thaws, Survives

From MSNBC.com:

‘Florida is not supposed to be cold like this’

U.K. shivers through worst cold snap in decades

‘Icebox’ cold in eastern U.S. — even Florida

And then there’s this, also from MSNBC:

Deadly cold kills four
Jan. 6: As at least four deaths in Tennessee are being blamed on the extreme cold that is gripping most of the nation, forecasters are predicting another surge of frigid air will sweep much of the country later this week. NBC’s Janet Shamlian reports.

Yes, in Al Gore’s home state of Tennessee at least four people have frozen to death during the current cold wave.

Tragic deaths that might have been avoided had these unfortunate souls made it to Al Gore’s house where energy is consumed like air and the outdoor pool is heated nicely, even in the coldest of winters.

So while it must suck for Al Gore, watching as his cult of global warming business flounders, at least he can kick back in his heated pool while mere mortals freeze in the brutal cold of reality.

Comes word from New Orleans that:

a rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power.

Parts of Louisiana were expected to get up to four inches of snow. Snow also covered a broad swath of Mississippi, including the Jackson area, and closed schools in more than a dozen districts. The National Weather Service in Jackson said up to 8 inches was possible in the southern and eastern parts of the state.

A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning.

Office workers stepped out of high-rises to catch a snowflake, snap pictures with cell-phone cameras and swap snow stories.

My gosh, thank of how much worse it might have been were it not for “global warming” saving us from what can only be described as “global cooling”.

I mean, after all when is the last time you heard a report out of New Orleans about anything not somehow related to crime, Hurricane Katrina or crime?

Where’s Al Gore when ya’ need him?

Read it at Rare snow covers south Louisiana, Miss.

And while you are at it, you might want to cut loose a few tons of carbon emissions before New Orleans freezes over!!!

You can talk about global warming all you want, but when a 6 foot long, 250 lb, Arctic Seal travels all the way to Florida to get away from the cold weather it would seem that something is a little fishy on the global warming front.

An Arctic seal found in a Fort Lauderdale canal – far from its habitat near the North Pole – died Tuesday, a day after it was captured.

Poor thing, at least it finally made it to SeaWorld but was evidently done in by the long trip.

Maybe they ought to issue some kind of warning to Arctic seals wanting to spend the winter in Florida to start out earlier, a lot earlier in the season…

Read it at Lost Arctic Seal Dies One Day After Rescue in Florida