US Refinery Status:Cold Weather Causes Snags At Texas Plants - WSJ.com

First snow in Seville Spain in more than 50 years

  The snow appeared in Seville city after more than 50 years since the last snowfall

An Inconvenient Truth: The Ice Cap Is Growing - Water Cooler - Washington Times

A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007. But didn't we hear from the same Center that the North Pole was set to disappear by now? We all deserve apologies from the global warming fanatics who wanted to reshape the world in their image and called those who objected to their wild theories ignorant deniers. They were so convinced the world was ending and only they could save it, yet now they have been exposed as at best wildly idealistic and at worst frauds.

Singapore pares emission cut plans after Copenhagen | Reuters

Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim told parliament Singapore would start implementing energy efficiency measures announced last year that would cut emissions by 7-11 percent on business as usual levels by 2020.

This would be below a 16 percent cut that Singapore pledged just ahead of U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen last month, which aimed to agree on a global pact but instead ended with a non-binding accord far short of its original goals.