Saturday, January 30, 2010

FT.com / Weekend Columnists / Harry Eyres - Love in a cold climate
This has been an exceptionally hard winter in much of the northern hemisphere; perhaps the hardest in the UK since the great freeze of 1963...
Harsh winter takes its toll as barn owls starve to death - Scotsman.com News
DOZENS of barn owls have starved to death during the big freeze. RSPB Scotland said it believed severe winter weather had taken its toll on the iconic species.
RSPB conservation officer Stuart Benn said deep snow had made it harder for the owls to catch food such as mice and voles. About five of the birds were found dead in the Inverness area on Saturday.
Roof collapses at former Boker Lumber
It was the second major roof collapse in as many days in Durango, which has been hammered by wet, slushy snow after a series of storms that brought more than 30 inches of snow.

Early Thursday, the roof at Iron Horse Inn's conference center and ballroom north of Durango surrendered under the weight of snow.
YouTube - Climate science: The leaked emails part 1 of 2
30 November 2009 Professor Aynsley Kellow, an Australian IPCC expert reviewer, tells the ABCs Counterpoint just what a scandal Climategate really is, even if other ABC programs refuse to cover it.

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