Requests For Heating Assistance Up 10 Percent - wcco.com

BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) ― A record number of Minnesotans are looking for help with their heating bills.

About 140,000 families have reached out to the state's program to help the poor pay those bills. That's up 10 percent.

One bit of good news in a winter that's had some record cold weather: the costs of fuel oil and natural gas have fallen dramatically since last summer.

Senate must save us from bungled ETS | The Australian

CAN the Senate save Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong from their global warming folly? It can, and it might, if it rejects the Government's attempts to prematurely lock Australia into a flawed carbon trading scheme.

Serreze's Waterloo

WATERLOO - One of North America's leading experts on climate change, Mark Serreze, will give a public talk on the sharp loss of Arctic sea ice during a visit next week at the University of Waterloo.

One of Al Gore's key environmental advisers, Serreze is the senior research scientist and Arctic specialist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Serreze, who evaluates the causes for declining sea ice cover, says the main culprit for the loss of sea ice is global warming. He estimates the Arctic could lose all of its ice by 2030.

Check out this 1993 paper--with Mark Serreze's name on it

In particular, we do not observe the large surface warming trends predicted by models; indeed, we detect significant surface cooling trends over the western Arctic Ocean during winter and autumn. This discrepancy suggests that present climate models do not adequately incorporate the physical processes that affect the polar regions.