Dallas-Fort Worth Area May Receive 8 Inches of Snow (Update1) - BusinessWeek

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Dallas-Fort Worth has received 5.3 inches of snow today, making this the region’s eighth-snowiest winter on record, according to the National Weather Service.
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“From Texas to the Southeast we are not breaking records with this cold but we are seeing it persist,” Rogers said in a telephone interview. “To me, the more impressive aspect is the durability of this cold. It is a pattern that is really stuck.”

BBC News - Climate change scientists losing 'PR war'

A Nobel peace prize-winning Welsh physicist says climate change scientists are losing "a PR war" against sceptics with vested interests.
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"So we need to look, I suppose, for some good PR people to help us get our messages across in an honest and open and sensible way, without causing the sort of furore, the sort of polarisation that has occurred because of the people who are trying to deny it, and trying to deny it so vehemently that the media is taking so much notice of them."
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[Sir John Houghton] believes some sceptics are influenced by concerns other than scientific truth, comparing them to now discredited lobbyists who argued smoking did not cause cancer.

He said: "A lot of it comes from the United States, from vested interests, coal and oil interests in the United States which are very strong and which employ thousands of lobbyists in Washington to try and influence members of Congress that climate change is not happening.

2003: John Houghton: Global warming is now a weapon of mass destruction | Politics | The Guardian

It kills more people than terrorism, yet Blair and Bush do nothing
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If political leaders have one duty above all others, it is to protect the security of their people. Thus it was, according to the prime minister, to protect Britain's security against Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that this country went to war in Iraq. And yet our long-term security is threatened by a problem at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons, or indeed international terrorism: human-induced climate change.

As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a "weapon of mass destruction".

Like terrorism, this weapon knows no boundaries. It can strike anywhere, in any form - a heatwave in one place, a drought or a flood or a storm surge in another. Nor is this just a problem for the future.