Mr. Rudd's Climate-Change Pitch - WSJ.com

The Australian prime minister tells voters they'll eventually accept the wisdom of a big, fat tax.

Himalayan glaciers gone by 2035? IPCC mistaken. / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Dr. Hasnain said this week he saw the mistake 10 years ago but did not seek a correction because it did not appear in a scientific journal. Other Indian scientists, after debunking a similar claim about melting glaciers in response to an Indian Parliament inquiry, also did not seek out the press with the information, says Rajinder Ganjoo, director of the Institute of Himalayan Glaciology at the University of Jammu.

"Perhaps we thought it was not important at the moment or maybe that the IPCC was a big dinosaur," he says. Asked if he has felt political pressure, he declined to comment further.

Holiday snowstorms were an area record

According to data from the National Weather Service taken at Kansas City International Airport, the Northland received 17.6 inches of snow from Christmas Eve to Jan. 8, the most it has ever seen over the holidays.

To put that in perspective, said Andy Bailey, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, 1929 and 1979 were the only other years the area saw more than 11 inches of snow in that 15-day stretch.

Climate panel apologizes for glacier error - UPI.com

Ben Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., called the error a "breakdown" in the peer-review process.

But "focusing on a mouse and ignoring the elephant would be a mistake," he told reporters, especially since independent assessments by the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. government and other sources echo the IPCC's overall findings.

Are all of Nashville's water pipes as old as ones downtown? | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Four water mains broke downtown on Jan. 9, gushing water into streets and forcing closings of downtown roads to keep vehicles off roads icing over in sub-freezing temperatures.

The breaks, which took five days to install temporary lines, left dozens of downtown businesses closed and without water.

John Coleman's climate change conspiracy theory - Capital Weather Gang

Climate science, like any branch of science, is far from "settled."