Dear Josephus,

Did you really just pick the second coldest capital city in the world to make your point to try and rubbish global warming?

That my friend is the very definition of idiocy.

“Nur-Sultan (Astana) is the second-coldest national capital in the world after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, a position formerly held by Canada's capital, Ottawa, until Nur-Sultan (Astana) attained capital city status in 1997. Nur-Sultan (Astana) has an extreme continental climate with warm summers (featuring occasional brief rain showers) and long, very cold, dry winters. Summer temperatures occasionally reach +35 °C (95 °F) while -30 to -35 °C (-22 to -31 °F) is not unusual between mid-December and early March. Typically, the city's river is frozen over between the second week of November and the beginning of April. Nur-Sultan (Astana) has a well-deserved reputation among Kazakhs for its frequent high winds, the effects of which are felt particularly strongly on the fast-developing but relatively exposed Left Bank area of the city.
Wikipedia

This is worth repeating;

“Summer temperatures occasionally reach +35 °C (95 °F) while -30 to -35 °C (-22 to -31 °F) is not unusual between mid-December and early March.”

So what were the temperatures since the 24th? Well during the worst of the snow it got down to -15C. After the snow had passed there was a low of -30C which as stated is not unusual.
http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/kazakstan/astana/historic

So mate, what on earth is your point?

I find all these facts and references interesting, if I thought there was a gainful reason to discuss or reference them.
I thought all the hoo-haa was about GW and CC.
We have concluded, long ago that there is a likelihood of this being the case, due to, again , having concluded that the planet lives by cycles.
The heating/cooling cycles are just one example.
No all this info and facts and historical references to weather and climate, are in fact irrelevant.
At best they may be of interest for those who are climate spotters, as in the cases of aircraft and train spotters.
But it has no relevance to the GW CC debate.
What is relevant is the accusation that we humans have in some way aggrieved the earth because of our lifestyle and social and business demands.
This has also been refuted many times on the basis that humanity and it's lifestyle have proven to be insignificant when compared to something the size of the earth.
We really must focus on the truth behind all this hoo-haa, and basically the reality is that we are not guilty of any wrong doing and we do not/must not change our way of life or lifestyle, purely because some crazed, greedy, selfish, evil con-men have set us on another path of panic and dependency on the execution and success of their plans, in which we are merely puppets and pawns.
Well I for one am not a puppet or a pawn, I am intelligent and aware enough to be outside all this, looking in, and it's quite entertaining, to say the least.
As all the times before, this will pass and those of us with a little more smarts will, as usual, look back and say, it happened again, and we came off the biggest losers as we count our losses.

it happened again, and we came off the biggest losers as we count our losses.
ALTRAV,
Well summed up !

Just saw on TV that one of Australia's prime contributions to air/noise pollution is in full swing at Bathurst again !
isn't there another, less polluting way to amuse suburbians ?