Timekeepers give 2008 an extra second - Telegraph

Among the reasons for Earth's slowing whirl on its axis are the braking action of tides, snow or the lack of it at the polar ice caps, solar wind, space dust and magnetic storms.

[Are we sure that they're starving?]: Polar bears wrestle in snow storm - Telegraph

A fine dusting of snow is blown into the air as two fearsome polar bears wrestle in this spectacular photograph.

Snohomish County Business Journal: Scandal rocks global warming issues

Anyone who assumed that these so-called scientific authorities in the debate were providing the straight scientific facts is going to have to think again. We have argued for many years that much of the scientific case for global warming alarmism was weak and some of it was phony. It now looks like a lot of it may be phony.

Hacked e-mails don't disprove climate change | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser

The claim that this science is now discredited because of these e-mails has no evidence to back it up — but it is being said nonetheless. Some of those saying it are members of Louisiana's congressional delegation.

They should think long and hard about their actions. Not every state is asking for billions of dollars from the rest of the country to save a coast being impacted by sea-level rise, a consequence of climate change.

The Reference Frame: Happy New Decade

# the IPCC will either be abolished with its most shameful representatives arrested, or it will release the fifth report in 2014
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# the global mean temperature will change by 0.3 °C in an unknown direction, with +0.1 °C being the approximate human contribution (that's 0.03 percent change at the absolute scale)