877 new snowfall records set or tied in the USA in the last week « Watts Up With That?

And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker.

Chinese hackers linked to 'Warmergate' climate change leaked emails controversy | Mail Online

The evidence passed to The Mail on Sunday now raises questions about whether Chinese hackers, backed by the communist regime, are the source of the emails.

Climategate Denier Raises Nazi Allusions, Employs Awesome CRU Tactics, Purges Arguments That Prove Him Wrong

The invaluable Climate Depot alerts us to the uproarious antics of Michael Tobis, a leading apologist for the climate scam promoters (I've helpfully shortened the URL to his post -- http://tinyurl.com/ClimateScam). Tobis offers a variety of spectacularly poor arguments, each worth spotlighting for their peg-the-needle disconnectedness from reality.

Best of all, when challenged on his blog, Tobis chose to delete opposition comments -- even when politely phrased and attributed -- an apparent violation of his own policies. Then again, deletion of factual data seems to be a specialty of this crackerjack bunch.

Velocity of Climate Change Varies from Mountain to Marsh: "Scientific" American

Calculating climactic changes is a tricky business, and temperature is by no means the whole story. Loarie and his team chose temperature as a key marker, he says, because organisms are "bathed in temperature." His team also ran the models with predicted precipitation changes and arrived at similar conclusions, even though moisture levels can prompt more nuanced responses across species.