UK: 20,000 could get cold weather payment - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

UP to 20,000 Halton residents could be in line for a one-off £60 hand-out to help stave off the cold.

The money which could go to 15 million people nationwide, will be paid in two instalments - the normal £10 payment in December, and a new £60 payment which is to be made between January and March.
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The Government unveiled the scheme at the start of one of the coldest winters in 30 years.

Revkin denies that the science is settled: View From the ‘Murky Middle’ - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

If a policy prescription does not account for the real complexity in the climate system, and real gaps in knowledge about aspects of global warming that matter most, is it likely that the public and lawmakers will pursue a big transformation of lifestyles and economic norms to curb CO2 emissions in a growing world still more than 85 percent dependent on burning fossil fuels to drive economies?

I have doubts. As I’ve written before, while 20 years of intensifying inquiry has greatly reinforced confidence that humans are influencing climate in ways that could profoundly disrupt human and natural affairs, it has not substantially clarified details that matter most: how fast and far temperatures and seas will rise in the next 100 years, how hurricanes will respond to warming, how regional conditions will change.