More people to carpool amid cold weather in NW China _English_Xinhua

Li said: "It is too cold to wait outside for a taxi, and it would be even more painful hopping on a bus without heaters."

"More people have stopped riding motorcycles and bicycles due to the cold weather," Li added.

Record snowfall and killer cold create challenges for Germany's Christmas markets

Record cold temperatures and abundant snowfall will make 2009's Christmas markets in the heart of Germany one of the most memorable in decades. While Europe's extreme weather brought flooding to Venice, Italy and snow to Nice, France, in Germany the plunging temperatures caused challenges for those attending the annual Christmas markets.

Deluxe river cruise ships were forced to transform into ice-breakers as they navigated their way through ice flows that formed on the Main River from Nuremburg to Frankfurt. Sub-zero temperatures with wind chills of -18C greeted visitors to Christmas markets in Bamberg...

BBC News - Blizzard warnings as holiday storms hit central US

At least 18 people have died as a result of blizzards and freezing temperatures enveloping the US Midwest.

Let's face it: the ETS is dead | The Australian

TONY Abbott almost singlehandedly put the Emissions Trading Scheme on life support. Now Copenhagen has killed it stone cold, motherless dead.

Climate change minister Penny Wong, who is too emotionally committed to it to accept that truth, will carry it into the new year.

Britain wakes to a white Christmas (in some places at least) | Mail Online

At least 19 people have now died in the big freeze.