National survey ranks Orlando 4th most popular city in U.S. -- OrlandoSentinel.com

By about two-to-one, Americans prefer to live in a hot-weather place over a cold-weather place.

Cold snap in France breaks energy consumption record

People in France are bundling up and EDF, the French electric company, is raking it in. Last Tuesday, the coldest day of winter in France so far this year, saw the highest one-day use of energy in France since 1997. Demand for central heating was high as the thermometer dropped to a frigid 16 degrees F (-9 C) in Paris and fell to a record -4 F (-20 C) in the Ardennes region. The French electric company registered a whopping record 91,500 megawatts of power use on Tuesday.

Tuesday was the coldest of a string of below-freezing days in France, a country not known for harsh winters. Homeless people continued their practice of camping out in the Bois de Vincennes, a forest near Paris, despite the freezing temperatures and snow. The French minister for Housing has proposed plans to force the homeless to enter social centers for the very cold nights. Several people have frozen to death from exposure since November 2008.

Has Al Gore been lying to us - again? « David Online

If the science on global warming is settled and the debate in the scientific community is over, why do we need $400 million to research a “science” whose conclusions have already been stated as fact?