By While South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is busy in Copenhagen defending the belief that we are all going to die in a fiery hell of our own creation due to global warming, Korea is currently experiencing a deep chill in temperatures:
Temperatures plunged to 15 degrees below zero in some inland areas Friday, making it the coldest day of winter.
Morning lows fell to minus 16 degrees Celsius in Daegwallyeong, Gangwon Province, minus eleven-point-eight degrees in Seoul, minus ten-point-six degrees in Daejeon and minus five degrees in Gwangju and Busan.
Most parts of the nation are expected to see temperatures remain below zero throughout the day, with the afternoon high for Seoul forecast to stand at minus five degrees.
The Korea Meteorological Administration forecast that temperatures will begin to rise steadily starting Saturday but that afternoon highs will continue to remain below zero throughout the weekend. [KBS Global]
3:22 am on December 18th, 2009 1
Yes, because a cold day means global warming is a total falsehood.
Hey! It rained today! That drought we've had for 7 years is just a lie!
3:51 am on December 18th, 2009 2
Dude, -15C is not cold. When I was a kid, my brother and I wouldn't go play outside unless it was at least -25C (we'd get too sweaty in our snowsuits if it was any warmer).
7:28 am on December 18th, 2009 3
"Yes, because a cold day means global warming is a total falsehood."
That's right; subfreezing temperatures are unseasonably cold for mid-December in Korea.
9:39 am on December 18th, 2009 4
If it ever got 15°F in Orange County, half the population would die. They'd be fooled by the clear, sunny weather that would have to accompany any situation where it gets below freezing, and they'd just die where they stand, wearing short sleeves and a windbreaker, shivering too much to walk in a coordinated fashion.
Even at 15° Celsius, we lose a lot of people.
11:37 am on December 18th, 2009 5
Here's a little analogy to consider, in distinguishing climate and weather. When I set off on my daily commute, I have to go through a couple of dozen traffic lights. I have no way of knowing if any given one will be red, yellow, or green when I come up to it. There's no way of predicting what the next light will be. But, if I were to keep a tally of what the lights were over time, patterns would emerge. If everyone who traveled the same route kept track of the lights over a period of time, then even clearer patterns would emerge. So it is with weather and climate. A lot of random particulars add up to a coherent whole.
12:53 pm on December 18th, 2009 6
I haven't got a clue as to what any of you are talking about. I think this is just a weather scam. Where I'm at in southwest Florida the temp is 68 deg-F and its 9:00pm. Hard to believe what you are saying.
12:53 pm on December 18th, 2009 7
All I doing is showing how ironic it is that it seems like every time the alarmists have some meeting it is freezing cold. You would think they would schedule these meetings in summer.
Anyway my posting is just following the global warming alarmist playbook. Every time there is a record hot day: global warming; a record hurricane: global warming; x amount of days with no rain: global warming; etc.
I am fully aware that weather is not climate, but someone should tell the alarmists that.
3:20 pm on December 18th, 2009 8
It's always freezing cold somewhere in December, so I really don't see any irony in it.
10:28 am on December 19th, 2009 9
I'm sitting in my apartment in Seoul with frozen pipes for the last 3 days…it's hard to believe in global warming when you have hoof down to the bathhouse every morning.