Rep. Ed Markey, Dec 9, '09: Palin: Birthing Global Warming Denial

Unable to win the climate debate based on facts, science or economics, Palin joins other Republican opponents in attempting to manufacture a scandal by seizing on stolen private emails from University of East Anglia in the UK.
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But had the Hoaxers performed a simple Google search on the topic being debated in the emails, they would have discovered that the scientific data set was openly discussed and debated in academic journals available to the public for years. (journals including Nature and Geophysical Research Letters).
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Perhaps the most telling aspect of Ms. Palin and the Republicans' attack, however, is the company they keep in this manufactured debate. Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia, desperate to keep Americans buying their oil, trumpeted the stolen climate emails in an attempt to kill a deal at Copenhagen that would reduce the world's demand for their only export.

Who else is standing with them? Like the scene in Casablanca, "round up the usual suspects." The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which regularly sued in support of the tobacco companies, is recycling their "hide the cancer" campaign by announcing a lawsuit against the EPA for finding that global warming is a danger to our health and environment. That's right, the deniers for hire that worked for the smoking industry are now sharing their tobacco playbook with climate opponents.

Cold weather continues to cause major disruption - The Irish Times - Sat, Jan 02, 2010

A Dublin Airport Authority spokeswoman said the airport had suffered heavy snow in four separate showers on new year’s night. Maintenance crews cleaning the runway and apron had successfully dealt with the first three showers but the fourth proved “very challenging” and it was not safe to open the airport until 10.30am.

“This level of snowfall wasn’t expected. The snow was falling quicker than we could clear it,” she said, adding that the airport was geared up “appropriately” for the amount of snow that could be expected in any given year. “There’s no point in investing millions in equipment that airlines wouldn’t pay for and we would hardly ever use.”

Wind turbine debate swirls - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

"We're living in the middle of a land wind factory. It's not a farm. It's industrialization. It's the industrialization of rural Ontario to help the urban centres offset their pollution."

Southerners Can Expect More Episodes of Snow, Cold and Freezes

The weather pattern evolving over North America is becoming ripe for cold and snow, deep into the South for January.

Fire wrecks greenhouse in Forest of Dean | news | This is Gloucestershire

He will lose all 250,000 of the tender young plants – worth about £1 million – to overnight frost.