Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey is reporting that Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group, is predicting the coldest winter in a decade for the east coast of the United States.  Ed Morrissey reports:

“The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.

“”Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.””

This happens just as Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader Senate negotiations and an eventual conference with the House. 

WattsUpWithThat is reporting that the ‘hockey stick’ theory of global warming has been disproved.  In fact the earth has not warmed for the past ten years.  Massachusetts did not really have a summer this year.  The last time that happened was in 1991 when Mount Pinatubo erupted and the ash cloud affected our summer.  The proposed global warming legislation (also called cap and trade or cap and tax) will affect only America.  Even if America cuts its carbon emissions in half, if China and India do nothing, there will not be a noticeable reduction in air pollution in the world.  America will have undercut its manufacturing base in order to achieve nothing.