-32F...Russia Has To Cut Europe Gas Supplies!

 "BRUSSELS—Russian natural gas supplies to Europe were curtailed for a third straight day Friday as particularly cold winter weather increased Russia's domestic demand, hitting flows to a number of European Union countries. "There has been a decrease in gas deliveries," Marlene Holzner, a spokeswoman for EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told reporters. "Russia needs more gas itself, as they are having an extremely cold winter." (WSJ).

 Where's that friggin' global warmin' Gore fella! 

Ms. Holzner explained that the situation isn't causing an emergency because all member states affected are for now able to make up for the lower Russian supply by buying the gas from neighbors, using storage capacity.

I taut I tawe a woolly
mammoth...
I did, I did tawe a woolly!

Russia and Ukraine both took precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, scores of whom have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during its brutal cold snap. As the death toll from the week long tragedy rose to at least 169 on Friday, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of feeding and medical-assistance facilities nationwide for the homeless. Russia has not reported casualty figures from the cold snap, which has gripped a large swath of the continent from Russia to Serbia. But Russian Deputy Health Minister Maxim Topilin was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency on Friday as saying that 64 people died from the cold in all of January. In Ukraine, the hardest hit country, health officials have told hospitals to stop discharging the hundreds of homeless patients after they are treated for hypothermia and frostbite. The goal is to prevent them from dying once they are released into temperatures as low as minus 32 Celsius (minus 26 Fahrenheit). Authorities also have set up nearly 3,000 heating and food shelters. Thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia in Ukraine on Friday, raising the nation's death toll to 101. Emergency officials have said many of the victims were homeless.  

(Photo/Illustration: Copyright Control).