MPR: Updraft: Climate change update [from alarmist Paul Huttner]

5) Urban heat island effects are accounted for, and though a few stations may be marginally effected by their location they are such a small part of the record as to be insignificant. The vast majority of data on climate change comes from ice cores, tree rings, deep lake sediments and other sources independent of our surface based temperature network.

6) CO2 has always varied naturally, but the rate of increase in the past 50-100 years is far higher than at any time in the past. That's the human "fingerprint" on global atmospheric changes.

There really is no debate that the planet is getting dramatically warmer.

Hoon and Emma Thompson exchange flak over flights

The cabinet minister who is pushing through the expansion of Heathrow last night hit out at celebrity environmentalists who talk green politics while flying across the globe.

Canal ice helps Dutch rediscover national identity - International Herald Tribune

NIEUWERKERK AAN DEN IJSSEL, Netherlands: For the first time in 12 years, the Netherlands' canals froze this month, bringing the Dutch, who like their tulips in neat rows, a heady mix of pandemonium and euphoria.

Hundreds of thousands of skaters, their cheeks as red as apples in the freezing temperatures, took to the ice, and hospital wards were filled with dozens of people with fractured arms, sprained ankles and broken legs.