All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

Just a week after the last major northern plains blizzard another significant snowfall occurred this weekend. Models did poorly with the location of the heaviest snow bands and generally overdid the magnitude. These models sometimes have difficult with the first 48 hours, but Susan Solomon and friends tell us you can depend on cruder models to predict the climate 100 years or even a thousand years in advance.

Power Line - Global Warming, Please

We're not complaining, really; south of us they got ten inches last night, and last week a foot of snow fell to our north. But this is starting to feel like the winter that never ends.

All of which is a reminder that the earth's climate has been cooling for the last decade, something that was not predicted by the global warming alarmists' computer models. When models make predictions that are falsified by events, it proves that the models are wrong. Someone tell the Democrats, quickly, before their slavish devotion to a discredited theory devastates our economy.

Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20's weasel words - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

It was meant, in Gordon Brown's words, to strike "a global green new deal" to tackle climate change and pull the world out of recession at the same time. In fact, the G20 meeting has sharply put back the chance of an international pact to stop global warming running out of control.
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Participants in the negotiations – now under way in Bonn – say that, partly as a result, they are now further from reaching agreement than they were towards the end of George Bush's presidency, despite the new energy and commitment brought to environmental matters by the Obama administration. Rich and poor countries now appear to be further apart than at the end of 2007, when the former president was still trying to obstruct progress. [Via Benny Peiser]

Beijing Exercises Its Global Leverage - WSJ.com

Beijing played a big role in playing down the summit's emphasis on the environment, helping sink an effort by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to commit governments to spend more cash on so-called green projects, Western officials said. As one of the world's biggest polluters, China was keen to keep green language out of the summit communiqu[eacute], according to people familiar with the matter. In its final communiqu[eacute], the G-20 reaffirmed its "commitment to address the threat of irreversible climate change," but serious discussions were left to a U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December, as China wished.