UK set for blizzard conditions and more snow | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Temperature drops to -18C in Aviemore overnight
Heavy rain, sleet and snow hit rail and roads
Council uses table salt on roads as grit stocks run low

I missed this earlier: Scientists plan emergency summit on climate change

The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [Marine biologist Katherine] Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise. "The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then they need to know that."

Wind Watch: Guern. L’association veut la destruction des éoliennes

Following the revocation by the administrative court in Rennes of the permission to build four wind turbines at Niziau in the commune of Guern, the Association Against the Guern Wind Energy Project (ACPEG) will demand the dismantling of three machines already place.

Global Warming Science and Public Policy - Green-collar jobs – or con jobs?

Other opportunities are more myth than fact. Solar panels to heat water or generate electricity have a maximum lifetime of 30 years – but a century of energy savings is needed to equal the panels’ installation cost, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Wind farms require large swaths of land to generate intermittent electricity – and eco activists often oppose the transmission towers and lines needed to carry their power to distant cities and factories.

Ethanol requires huge amounts of land, water and natural gas, to replace a tiny portion of our gasoline demand with an expensive fuel that drives up the cost of food and gets cars 10% less mileage per tank.