World leaders deal major blow to Copenhagen climate change deal - Times Online

Crunch climate change talks may be doomed to failure in Copenhagen next month, with a legally binding deal on emissions now decreasingly likely, admitted leaders from across the Asia Pacific region.

Fact-checking Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" - Inside Bay Area

PALIN: Says Obama has admitted that the climate change policy he seeks will cause people's electricity bills to "skyrocket."

THE FACTS: She correctly quotes a comment attributed to Obama in January 2008, when he told San Francisco Chronicle editors that under his cap-and-trade climate proposal, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" as utilities are forced to retrofit coal burning power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Obama has argued since then that climate legislation can blunt the cost to consumers. Democratic legislation now before Congress calls for a variety of measures aimed at mitigating consumer costs. Several studies predict average household costs probably would be $100 to $145 a year.

Regarding that "attributed to" phrasing above: When we can watch a YouTube video of you delivering a quote, it's very hard to subsequently deny that quote

Barack Obama: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." (January 2008)

[Warmest ever, unless you count those other times when it was warmer] | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Here are the years in which the record maxima were set in Melbourne for each of those dates:

November 8: 1909
November 9: 1882
November 10: 1927
November 11: 1865
November 12: 1902
November 13: 1980
November 14: 1878

China: Big freeze brings nation to standstill - People's Daily Online

Hebei provincial meteorological bureau issued its top alert three times and officials in Shanxi province declared an emergency the same day. Some places in these two provinces experienced the most severe snowfall in history.

Record Cold Expected in Alaska « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Record cold will grip interior Alaska this week. Low temperatures may dip as much as 50 degrees below zero.