About that Anthropogenic Global Warming

Went out for dinner last night and overheard someone talking about the eeeevils of coal. Turns out they were parroting the coal dust talking point but they had never walked along the railroad tracks and observed the abundance of no-coal-dust. They were also going on about how bad Carbon Dioxide was for the environment but they did not know that CO2 is one of the two key elements for photosynthesis and without it, there would be zero plants. Needless to say, I butted into the conversation... We know about Alaska suffering the coldest winter in three decades. How is it around the rest of the world? From USA Today:

Record cold kills more than 100 in India
New Delhi sees coldest temperature since 1969.
More than 100 people have died of exposure as northern India deals with historically cold temperatures.

Police spokesman Surendra Srivastava said Thursday that at least 114 people have died from the recent cold in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Many were poor people whose bodies were found on sidewalks or in parks.

From Reuters:

China chills hit 28-year low, trapping ships in ice
Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend.

Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing the China Meteorological Administration.

Bitter cold has even frozen the sea in Laizhou Bay on the coast of Shandong province in the east, stranding nearly 1,000 ships, the China Daily newspaper reported.

Meanwhile, the sun's output is still very very low...