Woman, 91, dies 'after becoming stressed over £16,000 council bill to make her home eco-friendly' | Mail Online

A family have expressed their fury after the death of their disabled 91-year-old mother who 'was forced to take out a second mortgage to foot an unnecessary £16,000 council bill' .

The family of bed-ridden grandmother Dorothy Hacking blame Thanet Council for 'disgusting treatment' after the pensioner became overstretched trying to pay for work to meet government regulations to reduce CO2 emissions.

Inauguration Will Produce 575 MILLION Pounds of CO2!

# Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private jets will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
# Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
# In the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
# The total carbon footprint for the Inauguration will likely exceed 575 million POUNDS of CO2
# It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party

Weather Mavens Honor Climate Maven - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

I am a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and have just recently retired after a 40 year career as a television meteorologist. For the last two years of my career, I wrote a blog from the skeptics point of view in regards to AGW.
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I agree with Dr. D'Aleo that it is indeed a sad day for the AMS when the society awards a man whose work has been shown to contain errors (such as proclaiming this past October the warmest October of record when September data was used). I believe Dr. Hansen's political ideology has taken over his science and renders him no longer qualified to be the keeper of the global temperature data.

I have found it interesting that in my experience, many (if not a majority) of meteorologists involved in day to day operational forecasting question the catastrophic scenarios put forth by people like Dr. Hansen, whose educational background by the way is in physics and astronomy, not meteorology or climatology. Perhaps because the operational people live and die by the forecasts they make there has been a great distrust of computer models develop over the years. We need models that work and shun the climate models that we know don't incorporate many of the driving forces behind the weather and ultimately climate, such as El Nino, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation. Those climate models have certainly missed the cooling of this decade and Dr. Hansen's forecast of a super El Nino for the 2006-07 winter turned out to be as wrong as if I had made of forecast of snow and it turned out to be sunny. But yet he never seems to be held accountable, unlike those of us who live and die daily by those wretched models.

— Craig Woods, Grand Rapids