Photo: Omar Sobhani

Afghans arrive to search for bodies in the snow after avalanches killed at least 157 people in Salang tunnel in Parwan province, February 10, 2010. Afghan rescue workers searched for survivors for the third day on Wednesday in the avalanche-stricken mountain pass, fearing that dozens of people were still buried under snow.-World Environment News

Most of the world is fed up with winter, despite the fact that the Winter Olympics just started.  The Olympics are even being put in jeopardy by lack of snow and events are being pushed up due to rain.  However, winter weather here and there does not in any way disprove climate change, despite what the denialists would have you believe.  Check out the latest Climate Files podcast for more on that.  More news:

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves

(Feb. 12, 2010) — Depicting a cause-and-effect scenario that spans thousands of miles, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his collaborators discovered that ocean waves originating along the Pacific coasts of North and South America impact Antarctic ice shelves and could play a role in their catastrophic collapse.

Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events

February 1, 2006 — Harder Rain, More Snow–While raising average global temperatures, climate change could also bring more snow, harder rain, or heat waves, meteorologists say. Computer models based on climate data from nine countries indicate every place on the planet will be hit with extreme weather events, including coastal storms and floods.

The Right’s Inability to Grasp Climate Change May Be Funny, But It’s Also Very Dangerous

The so-called Snowpocalypse has brought out the funny bone in the right-wing media, but their inability to correctly draw causal connections is very dangerous.  Climate change conspiracies are hardly new, but the so-called Snowpocalypse in Washington D.C. has returned them front-and-center to every single right-wing media outlet.  A Fox News anchor smugly claimed that the record snow had not only buried people’s cars — it was also “burying” global warming theories.

What Does Winter Weather Reveal about Global Warming?

Sadly, climate change won’t save you from bundling up, or shoveling. Even in a much warmer world, there will still be colder than average winters. What’s worse, U.S. government scientists predicted last year that global warming will actually increase snowstorms, thanks to the potent combination of more moisture in the atmosphere from warmer average temperatures paired with the usual cold of winter. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted the same in 2007. In short, winter storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent, with stronger winds.

The endangered climate act of 2010

by Nancy Sutley

The Endangered Species Act, as written and as restored by the Obama administration shortly after coming in to office, effectively requires federal agencies to study the effects of proposed projects on endangered species. The administration is now poised to expand the National Environmental Policy Act to require government [...]