Long Beach facing near-record lows tonight - ContraCostaTimes.com

LONG BEACH, Calif. - The Southland braced for more chilly weather as forecasters predicted a near-record low for Friday night into Saturday morning.

AccWeather reported that tonight will be partly cloudy and cool with the temperature approaching the record low of 35 set in 1978. The Long Beach high Thursday was 57 with an overnight low of 41.
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The storm dumped 54 inches of snow on the Big Bear ski resort region in the San Bernardino Mountains, just three inches below a record snowfall set in 1979, said James Oh, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in San Diego. The mercury dipped to 30 degrees on Thursday, the lowest December temperature recorded in Big Bear since record-keeping began in 1960, Oh said.

Schools were closed Thursday, many of them for the fourth straight day, in several high desert and mountain districts.

WHO Expects a Tropical Tropospheric Hot Spot From ANY and ALL Sources of Warming? | The Blackboard

It turns out that back in Dec. 2007, “The Group” at Real Climate informed readers that the hot spot was expected for any source of warming. The tone of the RC blog post would suggest that this information is widely accepted and agreed on by everyone. They appear to support their contention using a single GISS model run using an increase in solar forcing not experienced by the actual earth.

A Plug-In Hybrid Goes on Sale, in China - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

The questionable quality of Chinese cars has been the butt of many jokes, but it looks as though BYD Auto of Shenzhen, China, might be having the last laugh.

Where the Ideologues Roam - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

One thing struck me about today’s rollout of President-Elect Obama’s “science” team, which as noted below is chock-full of global warming alarmists hailed as leading scholars but who, upon scrutiny, turn out to have gained their highest credential — membership in the National Academy of Sciences — through a “temporary” (if still ongoing) back door for environmentalist activists, seemingly acknowledging that this was their sole pathway available to them.

I notice the strange distinction that it is solely on the issue of “global warming” that the rigidly dogmatic ideologues have found succor so far in the administration...