This is terrific news.  this is another catastrophic prediction we can remember and use to point and laugh at the climate hysterics in years to come.

It probably never occurred to any of you that glaciers typically 'melt' at the bottom normally, although it isn't actually melting given the enormous pressure.

and all this is happening because of a 0.8degree rise that hasn't changed in 17 year?

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That's the message government officials across the Northeast offered residents Monday ahead of what could be
a blizzard of historic proportions bearing down on the region.

"What you're going to see in the (next) few hours is something that hits very hard and very fast and people cannot be caught off guard," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said, warning that mass transit options will begin to dwindle as the night wears on.

Private cars will be banned from using city streets as of 11 p.m, he said.

The National Weather Service, which isn't prone to exaggeration,
is using terms like "life-threatening" and "historic" to describe the weather system taking aim at the Northeast -- with the worst expected to hit Monday night into Tuesday.

"This is going to be a lot of snow, no matter how you add it up, so we are going to be challenged," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency, called out the National Guard and said he may order everyone to stay put later tonight, as governors in Connecticut and Massachusetts had already done.

In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency starting at 6 p.m. ET Monday. Cars left parked on snow emergency routes will be towed and owners ticketed, he said.

The first big storm of the year may drop up to 3 feet of snow on Boston and New York before it ends Tuesday, with freezing rain and strong wind gusts possibly reaching 55 to 65 mph. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been issued from Maryland through Maine and into Canada.
Up to 58 million people could be put into the deep freeze.

"I want everyone to understand that we are facing -- most likely --
one of the largest snowstorms in the history of this city," de Blasio said.



That's saying something. In 2006, 26.9 inches of snow fell, topping the 25.8-inches of snow that fell in December 1947.


While the worst of the weather isn't expected to hit until late Monday into Tuesday, according to CNN forecasters, thousands of flights already have been canceled for Monday and Tuesday, Flightaware.com said.

Between 50% and 70% of flights have already been canceled Monday at New York area airports, with even more likely Tuesday, said Pat Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

American Airlines said it would suspend operations in Philadelphia, Boston and New York late Monday afternoon.

"We plan to resume operations as soon as it is safe to do so," airline spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said.

United Airlines has already canceled all Tuesday flights at Newark, LaGuardia and JFK, as well as Boston and Philadelphia, company spokeswoman Mary Ryan said.

The major U.S. airlines are offering fee-free rebooking of flights to and from the Northeast on Monday and Tuesday.

Amtrak plans to operate a normal Monday schedule but may re-evaluate later in the day.