Belgium reports strong increase in deaths | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

In an Antwerp newspaper, local funeral parlors report a 30 percent to 50 percent increase compared with the same period last year. Experts say the recent cold snap is probably to blame for the phenomenon. Elderly people in poor health are more likely to contract flu or pneumonia during a cold snap, often with fatal results. There has also been an unexplained strong increase in the number of suicides in Belgium.

Cold snap leaves big potholes bill - News - South Manchester Reporter

POTHOLES and cracks in the roads caused by the Big Freeze in Manchester will cost around £650,000 to repair.

Thousands of holes appeared on the roads during the big freeze, which saw temperatures plunge as low as -17C.

The End is Nigh: How the Religious Language of Global Warming is Failing : TreeHugger

Okay, okay, we've heard them all by now. Because we're trying to address the threat of climate change, we're blind Al Gore followers. Cultists. 'Alarmists'. And perhaps the most loaded: we're followers of the religion of global warming. To all that, I say . . . fair enough.

YouTube - [When Obama mentioned "clean energy" last night, I wonder if anyone thought of this incident, multiplied thousands or millions of times over]

a vulture fly too close to a windmill in Lendas, south Crete and make a fatal mistake.

Portland's eco-friendly race 'wrecks path' (From Dorset Echo)

AN OFF-ROAD running event billed as environmentally friendly has damaged a fragile ecosystem on Portland, it has been claimed.