[Antarctica: Still cold] | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

The locals I spoke with in Christchurch, while walking around town on Sunday morning, all complained about the cold, rainy weather...To me temperatures in the 40s F felt pretty mild after 37 days where the low temperature was never warmer than -6 F and the warmest temperature I’d experienced was +19 F. In fact, during my time in Antarctica the daily high temperature was above 0 deg F on only 13 of the 37 days I was on the ice.

As I walked through the Christchurch botanic gardens I enjoyed the feel of a breeze that didn’t threaten frostbite and hypothermia as the bitter cold winds of Antarctica did. The smell of spring flowers blooming was something that you never smell in Antarctica, and almost don’t realize missing until you get off of the ice.

Hedegaard loses climate chief negotiator (sacked)?: Google Translate (from Danish)

Connie Hedegaard's right hand and Climate Ministry chief negotiator Thomas Becker has decided to leave his job - allegedly because of internal strife within the Ministry.

Al Gore Still Lying about An Inconvenient Truth - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Now Gore is at it again. Listen to Phelim McAleer of Not Evil Just Wrong having his microphone turned off because he asked Gore if he disagrees with the court’s finding or wishes to respond to the specific findings of error. In dodging the question (shock!), Gore flatly lies — again — saying over and again that the court actually validated him. “The ruling was in favor of the movie, by the way. And the ruling was in favor of showing the movie in the schools.”