Pensioners found dead in their home at peak of UK's Big Freeze spark inquiry into care 'failures' | Mail Online

An elderly couple found dead in their home at the height of Britain's Big Freeze have raised concerns over care standards, with one MP branding their deaths 'appalling' and 'completely needless'.

Cold weather payments - record payouts - Channel 4 News

The freezing weather will mean at least £243m will be issued in Cold Weather Payments by the government, the highest ever level of expenditure on these benefits.

Water pipes bursting all over Dallas in wake of hard freeze 12:01 PM CT

Dallas experienced a tide of water-pipe breaks along with its worst cold snap in more than a decade.

Dallas Water Utilities usually reports four or five water main breaks a day, but has seen 105 since the temperature plunged last week.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Fallout from Biofuel Subsidies

...the explanation is all Hayek and the limits on information possessed by a few individuals in Congress vs. 300 million market actors. It is pretty clear to me that, to whatever extent Congress even thought at all about this legislation, they must have assumed that wood shavings were “waste.” What happened, most likely, is some entrepreneur and his VC backers came to Congress saying that all this sawdust is just wasted and if you give us a fat subsidy, we can build a valuable business burning it for power.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: money laundering?

A British government department, DEFRA, has paid taxpayers' money to a British University which in turn paid it to the British subsidiary of an Indian research organisation, which in turn seems to have paid it to a New Zealand university scientist so that he could work for an international organisation based in Geneva – the IPCC.

Welcome to the bizarre world of climate change politics, where nothing is what it seems and governments indulge in behaviour which, in other circumstances, would look very much like money laundering. But, bizarre though it might appear, this is only half the story. The reality is even more convoluted - the word "bizarre" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Hybrid Cars Won’t Save Much Oil - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Hybrid cars may be as popular as ever, but they may not have much impact on the nation’s – or the world’s - oil consumption over the next two decades, according to J. Marshall Adkins and Pavel Molchanov, analysts for the financial services firm Raymond James.

Obama Uses Global Warming To Destroy The US Economy: Tim Ball

President Obama knows little and cares less about global warming or climate change. It’s a means to a political end. He’s an arsonist setting fires to save the country, but as it burns he uses extinguishers that we know don’t work. He’s pursuing a deeply entrenched ideology with help from those who advanced his career as a figurehead for socialism in America. He’s assisted by the people he appointed to office and the policies already put in place. His actions are those Saul Alinsky outlined for community organizing but applied to the entire nation.