Three killed as snow and ice descends on Britain - Times Online

Forecasters warned that temperatures as low as -18C (0.4F) and snowfalls up to a foot deep would hit some areas.

Keep pets warm in Oklahoma City's cold weather | NewsOK.com

...bitter cold can be dangerous for pets and livestock.

Frost bite can destroy noses, feet pads, toes, ears and tails, she said.

And animals can die if left in the cold too long.

"Animals really start suffering in the low 50s and 40s, depending on the breed,” she said. "No small breed dog should be left outside.”

Consensus Matters: Don't Believe the Climate 'Skeptics' : TreeHugger

So by all means, send along your "proof" that man-made global warming is a fallacy in the comments below.

Shelving climate bill - Our Opinion - Odessa American Online

In a mere half year, much has changed. There was Climategate, the controversy over leaked documents from the U.K.’s East Anglia University Climate Research Center that seem to show at the least that climate scientists systematically blackballed dissenting views while manipulating and perhaps destroying data to make a case that global warming had occurred at an alarming rate.

Then there was the Copenhagen climate summit fiasco this month where 193 nations had hoped to agree on worldwide greenhouse gas emission curbs. But the summit fizzled when only a handful of major nations agreed merely to keep working independently to cut their own emissions but, even then, without enforcement guarantees.

ClimateGate (Inadvertently) Explained (Wizbang)

Thus the AGW researchers were forced to find creative methods of fudging data in order to hide problems and produce the results that the UN expected to see. But it wasn't just about politics -- the "right" results would also guarantee a lifetime of unlimited research funding by those who stood to profit from cap and trade schemes, carbon credits, and other solutions aimed at "fixing" AGW. With so much at stake, fudging the data became the only logical option.

The next time you hear someone claim that "the science is settled" with regard to climate change, ask them to explain how the climate change gurus dealt with the 50% to 75% of their data that was probably inexplicable or unusable. Their stunned response should be the only rebuttal you'll need.

SPL stand firm despite big freeze | Scottish Premier League | Football News from TEAMtalk

The big freeze claimed four of Tuesday and Wednesday's six SPL matches, with snow and ice playing havoc with the roads and pavements surrounding stadia.
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"It is important to get the scale of the problem into some sort of perspective," [SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster] wrote.

"You have to go back almost 10 years to find as harsh a cold snap as we are currently experiencing.

"Prior to this month, we had only lost on average one game per season due to frost or snow since the undersoil heating rule was introduced in 2003.