Heavy snow, ice bury southern Plains, head east | National news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

The storm left 13 inches of snow in the northern Texas Panhandle, where nearly all of Interstate 40 from the Texas-Oklahoma line to New Mexico was closed.

Open Left:: Senate calendar pushes health care, climate change, immigration legislation further back

# As a background to a jobs bill and the financial regulation package, health insurance reform will drag on for several more weeks, and might never be passed.
# As a result of that, climate change legislation is on life support, and will likely be shelved (and even the back-up plan of using the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses might be shelved).

Steve Janke: More unsettling science in the global warming camp - Full Comment

The scientists' models are better than the warmists' models. Our model says correctly that water vapor is the big player, while your model says (incorrectly) that carbon dioxide is the sole driver.

Wow.

The split has come. The real scientists are no longer counting themselves among the global warming alarmists and are saying so out loud. And they are challenging the warmists with new research.

The avalanche is coming.

What's next? Hey, let's go with another prediction. If the scientists start to shift dramatically away from the global warming orthodoxy, I expect we'll be seeing the editorialists next. I expect that in some short time frame, columnists and pundits who have been cheerleaders for the warmist camp will start issuing semi-apologies. They'll admit to having been perhaps a smidge too keen on believing everything the IPCC had been saying, and a touch too cavalier when it came to mocking the skeptics. They'll take cover behind research like this, saying that it's only now that it can be said that maybe the skeptics were on to something. Whatever. In any case, we'll see if that happens. If and when it does, I'll issue my next prediction.

Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix - Forbes.com

Frost damage to crops is not unusual; it causes American farmers to lose billions of dollars annually. Peaches, plums, citrus and other crops are regularly threatened by frost in the Southeast. California is also susceptible: A January 2007 freeze there cost farmers more than $1 billion in losses of citrus, avocados and strawberries, and a 1990 freeze that caused about $800 million in damage to agriculture resulted in the layoff of 12,000 citrus industry workers, including pickers, packers, harvesters and salespeople. In 2002 lettuce prices around the country went through the roof after an unseasonable frost struck the Arizona and California deserts.

Technology could mitigate much of the damage, but government regulation has placed obstacles in the way of innovative solutions.

Climate change: sailing through the perfect storm - Telegraph

...so far, much less damage than might be expected has actually been done.

Despite the sceptics' best efforts, for example, the basic edifice of global- warming science remains intact.

Shivering Southerners stunned by Jan. heat bills - BusinessWeek

The South's unusual cold snap is showing up in customers' heating bills, with monthly charges up an average of 50 percent and requests for payment assistance on the rise.

It's Time for the IPCC to Open Up & the Blogosphere Can Help : TreeHugger

Blogosphere Can Improve Public Confidence in Science

UEA 'gravely concerned' over data findings request - Norfolk News - EDP24

A claim that the University of East Anglia broke the law by refusing a climate sceptic's request for scientific data was last night disputed by under fire officials who said they had “grave concern” about the findings.

Cap And Trade Scam To Be Enforced At State Level

Individuals and businesses in Austin and a plethora of other states to be taxed for emissions of life-giving gas carbon dioxide