Dear Naomi Klein, please stop making my work difficult | Natasha Chart

Describing the climate debt owed by wealthy countries as 'reparations' makes it impossible for the US to take part

[Fair and balanced reporting from your mainstream media]: Climate’s lost decade now leads to a ‘last’ decade: CHARLES J. HANLEY - AP Special Correspondent

The decade’s final three summers melted Arctic sea ice more than ever before in modern times. Greenland’s gargantuan ice cap was pouring 3 percent more meltwater into the sea each year. Every summer’s thaw reached deeper into the Arctic permafrost, threatening to unlock vast amounts of methane, a global-warming gas.

warming deniers need to walk on water | StarNewsOnline.com | Star News | Wilmington, NC

Deniers should walk to the North Pole on snowshoes to prove that global warming is a hoax. I hope their faith is strong, because they’ll need to walk on water.

Michael Wolfe

Flashback: Jeremy Clarkson's drive to the north pole

I recently watched the 'Top Gear' special - where Jeremy and James May drove a specially modified Toyota Hilux pick-up to the magnetic North Pole from Canada's resolute bay!
That feat in itself is unbelievabe, as it has never been done before: but what makes it so astonishing is that Jeremy and James managed to do it with a certain amount of ease.

Media manipulation for all to see

What first prompted Watts' commentator to write in was an allegation by Prof. Sir David King, made at the demonstration, that the releaser of the CRU Archive had patiently accumulated e-mails and "mobile phone conversations" for a period of more than eleven years, and timed their release at "a week before [the Fifteenth Conference of Parties in] Copenhagen." In fact, a thorough search of the CRU Archive produces not a single e-mail that purported, or appeared, to be a text message from a cellphone, nor a transcript of a telephonic conversation, whether over cellular radio or landlines. More to the point, previous analysis has already shown that the archive was likely assembled by a regulatory compliance officer and then accidentally (or on purpose) left on a public server, from which the eventual releaser obtained it.

The most important evidence that Watts, Kilty, and Watts' commenter have discovered is probably that AGW alarmists love to manipulate the media, and persons lacking a proper education in science are exquisitely subject to such manipulation, especially in the form of a message repeated too often to count.

Heat line ruptures in Blagoveshchensk in severe frost

KHABAROVSK, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- A heat line ruptured in Blagoveshchensk overnight, leaving 42 apartment buildings, two kindergartens, two schools, a hospital for children and other facilities without heat in severe frost.
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The temperature in Blagoveshchensk is 25 degrees below zero this Friday.

Valley citrus weathers frost - Updates - Fresnobee.com

To date, farmers have spent nearly $10 million on frost defenses with another six weeks of vulnerability left.

Build-a-Bear takes heat for global-warming webisodes -- latimes.com

Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.

Greenpeace Will Keep Up Pressure on Global Warming - NYTimes.com

The Copenhagen meeting, he said, also saw political acknowledgment of what science says about climate change.

''Bottom line is, not one head of state got up and said: `I question the science,''' Naidoo said.

Naidoo said a Greenpeace climate-change team that worked for the 18 months before Copenhagen has been replaced with fresh campaigners, ''so we won't lose momentum.''

Record snowfall for Dallas-Fort Worth on Christmas Eve 2009

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport recorded the first measurable snowfall for December 24 since weather records began in the Metroplex over 100 years ago, according to the National Weather Service.

As of 7:45pm on 24 Dec 2009 (when an update was issued), 3.0” of snow had fallen.

Much greater totals fell in a band just northwest of the Metroplex; Bowie in Montague County reported 9" with roads impassable; Jacksboro in Jack County reported 9" with roads barely passable, and Grayson County had received 2-3" as of 8pm.