"Since 1993 the US has spent
$150 billion on climate change research. That's $20 million every
day.
The European Union will pay
$250 billion for its current climate policies each and every year for 87 years.
And for almost $20 trillion,
temperatures by the end of the century could be reduced by a negligible 0.05ºC."
It has also been the coldest summer Alaska has had in
many years - about 15 degrees colder. In fact the Arctic has had the shortest
summer on record. Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing but
this year there was less than half that. There is now more ice at the
Arctic than what the National Geographic map showed for
1971.
The 2013 winter was overall the coldest winter in 30
years for the entire northern hemisphere. Europe had one of the coldest springs
on record. In the USA it has been overall the coolest summer for more than 30
years, notably in the West, despite some widely reported intense heat in the
east. In North Dakota the only month in 2013 that snow has not been recorded in
has been August.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/opinion/post/-/blog/19295319/looking-after-the-planet/
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