[Carbon dioxide blamed]: Peru's mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter | World news | The Observer

The few hundred people who live here are hardened to poverty and months of sub-zero temperatures during the long winter. But, for the fourth year running, the cold came early. First their animals and now their children are dying and in such escalating numbers that many fear that life in the village may be rapidly approaching an end.

In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly.
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"All the children here are sick, they all have breathing problems," he says. "The problem is there is too much cold, too much rain. We have had no time to recover from last winter before it has begun again. There is nothing I can do."

Climate change campaigners and development NGOs say that the failure of Copenhagen has signed the death warrant for hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and that a quarter of a million children will die before world leaders meet again to try to thrash out another deal at the United Nations next climate change conference in Mexico in December. Among them may be these children of the high mountains.

Shell is accused of abandoning solar power customers in the developing world | Business | The Observer

Row over responsibility for sold-off systems has left Sri Lankan communities unable to replace faulty equipment

- Bishop Hill blog - A climategate snippet on urban heat islands

the BJ records include an urbanisation-related warming bias between 0.20 and 0.54°C/decade, likely about 0.30°C/decade, for the recent few decades.

Twitter / Jakob Kahlen

Biking chill factor in Copenhagen this morning = 1.000.000

Amarillo.com | Opinion: Letter: Where is global warmth? 01/02/10

Dear former Vice President Al Gore:

Merry Christmas. Where is the global warming? We are freezing here in the Panhandle. The polar ice caps may be melting, but I want to assure you they are alive and well here in the Texas Panhandle! Good news, we bought some carbon credits by unplugging our two refrigerators and moving their contents outside until the spring thaw comes, if it ever does. That will ease pressure on electricity needs and the burning of coal to generate it.
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It has been cold here in Texas. They got a pile of snow earlier in December in Houston and had to close school. Your environmentalist-secular friends will be pleased to note that Christmas Eve services were canceled in many places from Lubbock to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Ed Driscoll » Farm The Decline

But this proposal to create “scarcity” is arriving at the same time the Obama administration is feverishly hoping to create its own form of scarcity as well, by eliminating many of America’s farms to stem the imagined horrors — wait for it –of global warming...
Hey wait, just a few months ago, John Holdren, President Obama’s Dr. Strangelove-esque czar of weird science, announced to the press that he  was going to “solve” global warming by shooting rockets filled with pollution into the upper atmosphere. Maybe we should see how that goes before nuking America’s farmlands — err, except for the farms that will be debuting in Detroit, of course.

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: Last Winter was the Starter, This winter is the Main Course: Rumors already that this is the worst winter since 1979