ECOVIEWS: How do animals survive a severely cold winter? | TuscaloosaNews.com | The Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa, AL

The simple answer is that many individuals of many species did not or will not survive the cold temperatures, and some of the introduced tropical species will be hardest hit.

Jennifer Marohasy » Climategate Hits the US: Kenneth Haapala

FOR MUCH of the Northern Hemisphere, the cold is abating. As climate scientists long realized, a short period does not create a trend. Even global warming advocates, who insisted that the 1998 El Nino warming was a trend, are now claiming that the cold does not contradict their warming trend. Their time spans are evidently extremely adjustable.

Puffins Decline In UK Blamed on Global Warming

The media blame UK puffin declines on global warming, even though they have in general increased over the last couple of decades. Turns out it's a combination of overfishing of sandeels and the North Atlantic Oscillation affecting zooplankton populations. See the new UK Puffins page with details.

Glaciergate? IPCC Claims That Himalayan Glaciers Will Disappear By 2035 Are Melting Away - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest

The IPCC, in what will surely be remembered as one of the most idiotic and irresponsible predictions ever made, assessed the probability of a glacial meltdown by 2035 as “very high” — a probability of over 90%.

As Emily Litella [there's that name again], Gilda Radner’s ditzy television commentator from the earliest days of Saturday Night Live would say, “Never mind.”

[Claim from Wisconsin:  Without a massive climate swindle, our health will suffer]  - JSOnline

...even if the worst projections of climate change don't come to fruition, and even if the federal government doesn't act on a bill of its own, it's still important to reduce Wisconsin's reliance on fossil fuels and increase our use of renewable energy. Public health and the environment demand no less.

Wisconsin: Global warming bill kills state jobs - JSOnline

Higher electric bills will not create jobs. Making gasoline more expensive will not create jobs. Significantly increasing the cost of doing business in Wisconsin will not create jobs. Taking more money from Wisconsin families will not create jobs.

Yet those outcomes are exactly what voters can expect if Wisconsin adopts Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed global warming legislation.