These days I have been so glad to have made the choice to move South.  It is so nice down here and knowing what I left behind, weather wise, makes it that much sweeter.  Everyone tells us we got out just in time.  Many are making plans on coming to see us.  They are just sick of all this snow. 

Lately, we've been getting lots of phone calls and pictures over the net from friends and family back home.  They are enduring a tough winter.  Actually it's been pretty brutal with almost record amounts of snowfall.  Actually I think one more storm may put them into the record books from what I hear.  Last I knew they had about 110 inches of snow with more on the way.  I just heard they are expecting another 10 inches of the heavy white stuff.    With some of the snowbanks as high as 20 feet I can only imagine the dread of yet another storm on the way. 

Where to put it?  That's the problem for my Northern friends.  Some have been getting bucket loaders to cart this snow away because there just isn't any more room.  Driveways and streets are are narrowing with every snowstorm.  The school kids have used up as many as seven snow days with the prediction they will be in school until the near end of June so far.  There also have been many roofs caving in and quite a few are now scrambling to shovel off their roofs before they suffer the same fate. 

I've also heard this may be the breaking point for many on the fence about moving South.  My Dad, whom I never ever imagined would even think of moving from Maine told me he's even let this thought cross his mind.  He's such a Maine Hick.  He's the only one I said I couldn't picture moving here.

So, with all this going on all over the Northeast and Mid-West I have to ask, where are the global warmists these days?  I haven't heard a peep out of them.  Has anyone else? 

I read this today:

A prominent global-warming critic says many scientists believe that this winter's weather could point to a future cooling trend.

Marc Morano is the resident authority on global warming with the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works minority staff. He says according to records kept by the United Nations, global average temperatures peaked during the El Nino year of 1998 -- and that since 2001, the temperature trend has declined slightly.
 
According to Morano, despite the continued pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere, the southern hemisphere has also experienced a cooling trend; and in the northern hemisphere, January 2008, by some estimates, was the coldest month in more than a decade.
 
"Solar scientists are worried about the lows," he says. "They're calling it the 'disturbingly quiet solar cycle.' And we're faced with again just a lack of years ... of temperatures just sort of 'plateau-ing out' to the point where the head of the U.N. IPCC [Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change] has recently called for an investigation as to why temperatures were not continuing to rise as predicted."
 
Morano also notes that between 1940 and 1975, the earth's temperature cooled even though CO2 levels rose. And global warming alarmists, he notes, have failed to explain the lack of a correlation between rising CO2 and rising temperatures, a theory that Al Gore promotes in his movie An Inconvenient Truth.