The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 14th 2010

Al Gore is mad at the world, the UK and much of Europe is digging itself out from under global warming and eating greens might kill primates unable to access antacids.

Records set during 'Cold Blast' - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

According to the National Weather Service in Miami, the 'Cold Blast' we experienced this month is the longest and most intense stretch of cold weather since at least 1940.

Lawrence Solomon: Australia may be backing away from cap and trade - FP Comment

Before the Copenhagen conference on climate change, many believed that carbon trading, already underway in the EU, would sweep the western world, with Australia being the next country carbon-trading country. After Copenhagen ended in chaos, it became clear that the U.S. wouldn’t adopt carbon markets and that Canada, which is determined to follow the U.S.’s lead, also would not.

Now, all bets are off in Australia, despite gung-ho Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has staked his reputation on pushing through carbon trading.

wfn.org | Martin Luther King Jr. Inspires Church's Climate Change Letter

"The day after I returned home from the climate change talks, I needed a place to go where I could safely cry tears of lament, " says Tindal. "I needed somewhere where I would be supported as I wrestl ed with the bitter disappointment I felt with the result of the Cop enhagen talks."

Doomsday clock gets moved by world's "top" scientists

PHOENIX - The minute hand of the clock that shows how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction was moved for the first time in two years on Thursday.

The timepiece of the "Doomsday Clock" in New York was originally set at seven minutes to midnight in 1947 after the U.S dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.
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Thursday it was moved from 5 minutes to midnight to 6 minutes to midnight.

'Doomsday Clock' Moves One Minute Away From Midnight -- NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable.

Cold Weather Pushes Up Heating Needs as Much as 33 Percent

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- With unusually cold weather recently causing Virginia homeowners to use as much as 33 percent more energy for heating than last year, Dominion Virginia Power is encouraging customers to take steps to save energy and money.

Doomsday Clock: Does nuclear threat outweigh climate catastrophe? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It is possibly a surprise, though, to see the clock being moved back by a minute as opposed to forward. I would have thought that the mood post-Copenhagen was more despondent than it was before it began. The Bulletin of Atomic Energy evidently sees the international moves to disarm us of nuclear weapons as outweighing any need to suffer the Copenhagen blues.