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It’s not just snowing, Atlanta — it’s THUNDERSNOWING! Yar! What is “thundersnow?” It’s a perplexing mix of God’s belches and Bill Brasky’s dandruff. It has nothing to do with the weather.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is asking motorists to curtail their driving. Schools tomorrow may or may not close. Television reporters are at Piedmont Park and in Coweta County (?) looking miserable. You can follow all the fun on Twitter at #atlsnow and #thundersnow, among others.

And there’s also a commemorative t-shirt you can buy:

(Image from Regator’s “thundersnow” t-shirt page on Zazzle)

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John Coleman, founder of the Atlanta-based Weather Channel, spoke at a gathering of loons in New York and said to “finally put some light on the fraud that is global warming,” critics of the glaringly obvious changes happening in our world should sue those who are bringing it to attention, such as Al Gore and those selling carbon credits. Legal action would force them to honestly describe the policies they propose.

The gathering of loons is the serious-sounding “International Conference on Climate Change,” a global-warming deniers paradise coordinated by the Heartland Institute.

From ThinkProgress:

Heartland’s extreme anti-environmentalism no doubt spawns from its supporters. Between 1998 and 2005, oil giant ExxonMobil gave nearly $800,000 to Heartland. The group’s Board of Directors also explains the group’s climate change denials:

– Thomas Walton is the Director of Economic Policy at General Motors.

–James L. Johnston is a former senior economist for oil company Amoco Corporation.

–Walter F. Buchholtz is a former member of Heartland’s board of directors and worked as ExxonMobil’s Senior Issues Advisor.

–James M. Taylor is editor of Heartland’s weekly Environment & Climate News and wrote an op-ed criticizing Gore’s “Assault On Reason” insisting that “global warming threats they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.”

Any day now, some sanity would be nice.

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Employees of the Cobb-based Weather Channel had a rude awakening Thursday morning when they showed up for work and discovered their company is being sold. According to one source at the cable channel, rank-and-file staffers didn’t know they were on the auction block until someone spotted this item in the New York Times online.

According to the Times, the WC’s owner, Landmark Communications, a private media company based in Virginia, is seeking to collect as much as $5 billion for the channel and its popular website, weather.com. No word yet on what would become of the channel’s Forecast Earth website, where climatologist Heidi Cullen has ruffled some conservative feathers with her dissing of global warming deniers.

The NYT predicts that NBC, Comcast, Time Warner and even Faux News could be interested in bidding on the channel, which, appropriately, is located just off Windy Hill Road.

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