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Soldiers push a container truck stranded on a snow-plagued
stretch of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway in Shaoguan, South
China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 31, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)

Dozens killed in Iran blizzards

At least 28 people are reported to have died in Iran's heaviest snowfall in recent years.

Eight people froze to death as severe blizzards left 40,000 people stranded in their cars, authorities said.

Although most have now been rescued, another 20 people are reported to have died in car crashes caused by the weather, officials said.

Tehran has declared two days of national holiday, urging people to stay at home to avoid the bitter cold.

The temperature has been down as low as -24 degrees Celsius, and for the first time in living memory there has been snow in the country's southern deserts.

Other recent headlines:

Rare snowstorm hits Middle East - 29 Jan 08

Jerusalem blanketed with heavy snow - 29 Jan 08

More than 100,000 homes collapse in China - 29 Jan 08 Chinese snow storms strand tens of millions of people.

Cascade Snowfall 150 percent to 212 percent of normal – 3 Feb 08

U.S. Braces for another wave of storms – 30 Jan 08

Record snowfall hits Inland Northwest - 28 Jan 08

Why so much snow? Global warming? The La Nina pattern that's been cooling the Pacific since "last August throughout the tropical Pacific and strengthened at the sharpest pace in 56 years?" The record southern hemisphere sea ice?

Zheng Guoguang, chief of the China Meteorological Administration said, "With the current technology, we cannot predict weather beyond a week." Our local weather guys do good to predict the weather a few hours in advance. How are we going to predict the weather in 2030?

[tomder55]

Steve send some of that snow this way . I only had one decent snow-shoe hiking weekend this winter .

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We are killing the planet by converting to ethanol !

Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'

The Earth's core produces oil . Perhaps it is not created from bio-waste after all. Perhaps the supply is not finite.

[speechlesstx]

I had just read that biofuels would increase carbon emissions article earlier. Gosh, what's a greenie to do? I'd send you some snow but it seems to have stopped at the New Mexico ski resorts where they're having an "exceptional" year after years of almost going broke for lack of snow. I'd be glad to send you some really cold wind though :D

So let's see, the earth's crust produces oil, undersea volcanoes may be the reason for warming oceans, solar activity could be driving climate change, the antarctic ice sheet is at record levels and people all over the world are experiencing record snows. Has anyone told Al Gore... or John McCain?