[Lack of warmth is tough on elephants]

Sitthidej Mahasawangkul, director of the Lampang-based Elephant Hospital, has advised mahouts and elephant owners to take special care of elephants, particularly sick and old ones, during the cold season.

Cold weather can have an immediate effect on the health of elephants, Mr Sitthidej warned.

They were supposed to cut emissions instead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Kevin Rudd’s mad plan to hand out free pink batts, to be installed by any cowboy you like, has sure stimulated the NSW fire brigade. Even Environment Peter Garrett admits to his green plan having started at least 28 house fires in NSW alone.

For a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions, billowing smoke is not an ideal result. Nor are the three dead.

Climate policy Q&A: peak oil and alternative energy | The SPPI Blog

[Monckton] Until the environmental movement disentangles itself from the international marxist Left, it will continue to resist sensible resource development. I am uneasy, therefore, at your suggestion that we should pursue the economically-destructive, climatically-irrelevant, scientifically-illiterate, mathematically-innumerate policies advocated by lavishly-funded, self-serving pressure groups closely in league with today’s worldwide governing class.

When and if the price of oil or coal or gas rises high enough to warrant the development of alternative fuels, the market will take care of the problem. The history of State intervention to try to pick future winners shows that only a lunatic would expect to succeed by going down that route.

Jon Snow falls for Ed Miliband's figures - Telegraph

The curious role of the UK Met Office, one of the leading promoters of climate change hysteria under its chairman Robert Napier, a former professional climate activist, has made it an international laughing stock. After its earlier prediction that 2007 would be "the warmest year on record', global temperatures plummeted by 0.7C, more than the entire net warming of the 20th century. Each year since then its winter and summer forecasts have been hilariously wrong (eg this year's prediction of a "barbecue summer"). And of course these forecasts were made with the help of a computer model – run by its Hadley Centre, in conjunction with the Climatic Research Unit now at the centre of the "Climategate" scandal – which is the same as the main one supplying temperature data to the UN' s IPCC.