Snow traps drivers for days in giant Russia traffic jam

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bobby990 wrote:

Ronald Reagan: If somebody comes up to you and says ” I’m from the Govt. and here to help you, run like hell” — it’s the truth around the world.!!

Dec 02, 2012 9:59pm EST  --  Report as abuse
Arizona1001 wrote:

So seeing as we have started off with a mild winter. What are the Obama progressive communists going to say with the first snow….O my God it’s the next coming ice age…Yep..You sky is falling.. warmer today colder tomorrow idiots really crack me up. So so stupid. And you want human growth and prosperity to go to hell because of your retardation.

Dec 02, 2012 10:30pm EST  --  Report as abuse
Turkle wrote:

I love the last paragraph of this article. The Soviet era is now thirty plus years in our rear-view mirror (pun intended), so what is the excuse for the Russian infrastructure being so poor today? Reuters again reporting a totally unbiased report, forgetting that some people read and think, not just read and consume their reporting as facts. Let us not forget that Russia is a corrupt state where only the elite leading party members and crony establishment live well. I am sure all that infrastructure money helped refurbish… vacation homes for the politically connected.

Dec 03, 2012 8:47am EST  --  Report as abuse
Guruman wrote:

Just think how bad it would be if we didn’t have global warming!

Dec 03, 2012 10:29am EST  --  Report as abuse
Guruman wrote:

Just think how much worse it would be if Al Gore (noted climatologist) hadn’t invented global warming!

Dec 03, 2012 10:46am EST  --  Report as abuse
USAPragmatist wrote:

@Arizona, I was waiting for one of you Deniers to rear their head. You all have so little understanding of science it is laughable, one event does not signify the change, it is all the events taken together. And one can not dispute the fact, logically at least, that extreme weather events have been on the uptick when compared to historical norms.

Dec 03, 2012 11:02am EST  --  Report as abuse
TipiRick wrote:

USAPragmatist is not thinking scientifically, but is merely parroting a liberal progressive science consensus opinonist. Science is not a consensus-opinion-building operation as lefty useful idiots would have you believe. Science is about facts. There is no global warming outside the normal shifts and cycles, certainly nothing we can affect. It’s just a huge power grab to tax. These people are a fraud. There are better reasons to save fuel and care for the environment. That’s AKA Conservation or Conservativism, you lefty climate fascists.

Dec 03, 2012 11:20am EST  --  Report as abuse
Overcast451 wrote:

“And one can not dispute the fact, logically at least, that extreme weather events have been on the uptick when compared to historical norms.”

Historical norms.

The earth has been here for 4.5 Billion years. Out of that, we have maybe 160 years of good climate data.

Mathematically speaking that is 0.000003555% of available data, in that context – to me, it seems we have woefully little data to base our pride-filled assumptions with.

Man has always thought himself the “master” of science – and that’s one thing you can historically prove – that man, is wrong time and again.

Dec 03, 2012 11:35am EST  --  Report as abuse
mjazzguitar wrote:

Antarctica was a tropical forest once and everything survived.

Dec 03, 2012 12:24pm EST  --  Report as abuse
USAPragmatist wrote:

@overcast, in essence you are right, but your terminology is correct. We only have about 150 years of data with respect to specific weather events. But we have a much longer history of climate shifts from various places, like tree ring or ice core surveys for example, that can go back millions of years. But of course the resolution is not as fine the farther back we go.

Dec 03, 2012 1:48pm EST  --  Report as abuse
USAPragmatist wrote:

Mjazzguitar, and that was when the land that is currently Antarctica was on or near equator. It is called continental drift.

Dec 03, 2012 1:50pm EST  --  Report as abuse
JackWhite wrote:

When it snows too much…..blame global warming.
When it snows too little….blmae global warming.
To liberals, no matter what happens, it’s global warming.

Dec 03, 2012 2:00pm EST  --  Report as abuse
Abu-AlAbed wrote:

200 days and it will be over..everybody will get home

Dec 03, 2012 3:18pm EST  --  Report as abuse
USAPragmatist wrote:

I have always tried to figure out how/why the deniers keep denying when all the evidence supports the opposite. Then I read the following editorial this weekend and it made sense…

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/12/exposing_the_logic_of_climate.html#incart_river

Dec 03, 2012 3:20pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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