US Pattern: Major Winter Storms and Brutal Cold to start 2010

Lows tonight may fall towards 15 below zero for Minneapolis and near zero for Chicago whilst northern Minnesota and North Dakota may see lows drop to 30 below in places like Grand Forks and International Falls. Wind chills will fall into the 35 to 45 below range as winds blow hard out of the NW.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Rush Limbaugh fit as fiddle: http://j.mp/RushHeart Docs say no heart disease, but that's not surprising. Wouldn't it require a heart?

Stolen climate correspondence and global warming « The Berkeley Blog

I do not “believe” in global warming, I accept it based on the evidence. I will accept it no longer when evidence shows it is not happening, but I will not reject it based on skeptics pounding on old emails, books or editorials using selective evidence, or just rhetoric, especially when they reveal predilections about saving the economy. If they really want to do that, then they must look at all the evidence impartially and assess it appropriately without bias of their own backers or opinions, before they decide what to do. That is what scientists try to do, within the usual failings and weaknesses of human frailty.

Heliogenic Climate Change: It was deleted, it came back, now it's deleted again