Houston braces for about 2 inches of snow | | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston is on track today to break a record with the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the city's history.

Forecasters are still hedging their bets, but say the most likely scenario is 1 to 2 inches of widespread snowfall beginning this afternoon.

Some areas could get up to a half a foot.
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During the brutal cold snap, the Star of Hope's Men's Center will open floor space for up to 200 additional homeless men, even though the center is already near capacity right now, with almost all of its 300 beds taken.

Metro - Environment Minister raises spectre that Canada may have been targeted in climate data controversy

[Jim Prentice] "You can't start to gerrymander science and you can't start to achieve science by consensus or it's no longer science. It becomes orthodoxy, or something else."

YouTube - Climategate Hits Hollywood: Should the Academy Rescind Gore's Oscar? (PJTV's 'Poliwood')

Screenwriter Roger L. Simon and filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd discuss what the Climategate scandal reveals about the shaky foundations of Al Gore's Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" and consider how the Academy might restore its reputation.

VIDEOS: THE EXPERTS EXPLAIN THE GLOBAL WARMING MYTH | Coleman/D'Aleo/Lindzen/Soon

New! Scientists who know that there is no significant man-made global warming have recorded videos to be displayed for the delegates to the International Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Four of those videos were shot and edited by the team i worked with. Here they are for you to see

Attempted breaches show larger effort to discredit climate science: researcher

Mr. Weaver believes the timing of the alleged attempts to breach security is linked to the coming Copenhagen summit. In the Jones case, he blasted the media for being sucked in by the minutiae of old emails rather than trying to determine who is ultimately responsible for what he called an agenda-based campaign to discredit climate science.

"The real story in this is, who are these people and why are they doing it?" Mr. Weaver said, noting the Jones controversy was not the result of a "lucky hack" days before the Copenhagen conference. "They're trying to find anything. They don't care what it is."

He believes the campaign is driven by the fossil-fuel industry, citing "a war for public opinion."