Climate Change 101: I can see Canada from my California spa!

Aside from all that, I have to admit that I was genuinely gleeful when I started to see the slope of global warming temperature charts slowly take a downturn. I was amused that the “global warming” hysterics had to make a rhetorical transition to the revised threat of “climate change” as the newest scourge of mankind. And I was relieved that the trek of the climate hysterics to the Mount Olympus of Copenhagen was an abject failure. For the moment, it looks like Mother Nature is teaching a lesson and some politicians are suffering a rude awakening. The climate for sanity is good.

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Wasted ... girl lies face down in snow in Newcastle

Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US capital paid prison inmates to shovel sidewalks, crosswalks and bus stops after the biggest December blizzard in the city's history, the Department of Corrections said Thursday.

FOXNews.com - Reality Check: Obama Expected to Lower Sights in 2010

Republicans said they expect issues like a cap-and-trade climate bill and immigration reform to fall off the radar in 2010.

"I think ... the Democrats are not going to have an appetite again for a big-ticket item when there's such dysfunctionality within their own ranks," said Brad Blakeman, former adviser to President Bush.