Global freezing brings call for carbon tax

Washington Times:

An Arctic cold wave with temperatures as low as 38 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters yesterday, halted some Amtrak service and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great Lakes.
The cold was accompanied by snow that was measured in feet in parts of upstate New York.
"Anybody in their right mind wouldn't want to be out in weather like this," Lawrence Wiley, 57, said at the Drop Inn Center homeless shelter where he has been living in Cincinnati. Yesterday lows in the area were in the single digits.
With temperatures near zero and a wind chill of 25 below, school districts across Ohio canceled classes. "We have a lot of kids that walk to school. We didn't think it was worth the risk," Sandusky City Schools Superintendent Bill Pahl said.
With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin's largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, affecting some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 youngsters got the day off in Rochester because of near-zero temperatures. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan. Even in Minnesota, where February cold is the norm and people are accustomed to coping, some charter schools closed.
The temperature crashed to 38 below zero yesterday morning at Hallock in northwestern Minnesota, and to 30 below at International Falls, the weather service said.
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Grand Forks, N.D., also registered 30 below.
"For this time of year, this isn't that unusual, as far as temperatures go," said weather service meteorologist Bill Abeling in Bismarck. "To get record temperatures this time of year in North Dakota, you've got to delve down in the 40-below region, so we're not even close."
Hayward, Wis., fell to 27 below yesterday, with a wind chill of minus 36, and wind chills across the state dipped to nearly 40 below.
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But the Globo warmers are gloating over the UN report as Anne Applebaum reports:

"Worse than we thought." The headline in the British Guardian newspaper on Saturday was almost gloating about the bad news. The tone of the article that followed was no different: In Paris, a U.N.-sponsored panel, consisting of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, had just declared that average global temperatures will probably rise 4 degrees Celsius over the next century. If so, catastrophic flooding, famine and water shortages may follow, along with the extinction of up to half of existing animal species. Malaria and other tropical diseases may spread. Among the coastal cities threatened by the higher ocean levels caused by melting ice caps, the paper noted -- not without a degree of satisfaction -- are London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Since the Guardian was not the only European paper to feature this story -- Germany's Der Spiegel cautioned " A Tropical Germany by 2100?" -- perhaps it's not surprising that the U.N. report inspired politicians of various hues, across Europe and the world, to seek controls on carbon emissions and the fossil fuels that create them. The British environment minister called for an "international political commitment to take action." The head of the German environment agency said, "We must all change our environmental behavior considerably." So much was said about the need for "action" and "change," in fact, that it's a wonder the resultant hot air didn't make temperatures rise higher.

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Of course being a liberal, Applebaum thinks the solution is to raise taxes, specifically a carbon tax on the use of any fossil fuel. She, of course, buys into the theory that the warming is man made. She, nor anyone else for that matter, can explain how man is responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps on Mars. Carbon tax schemes or just another attempt of liberals to grab your pocketbook and institute their control freak agenda.