The Heretics: McIntyre and McKitrick | FrontPage Magazine

McIntyre and McKitrick, working on their own, did what good scientists are supposed to do: they challenged conventional wisdom and they found it wanting. Al Gore received an Oscar and Noble Peace Prize. Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick haven’t been given any awards, outside of the thanks from an increasingly grateful public. Both of them, in this scientist’s opinion, deserve a medal.

Wimbledon faces a crisis as strawberry fields frozen - Scotsman.com News

...this year's crop of Scottish strawberries – long a staple of Wimbledon crowds – have been badly hit by the winter freeze.

UK Analysis: Jan Retail Sales Plunge Due To Cold Weather | iMarketNews.com

LONDON (MNI) - Retail sales plunged at their fastest rate for a year and half in January as volume growth was hit by the extreme cold weather and snow seen during the month, according to figures released by National Statistics Friday.

The Twilight of the Global Warming Vampire | NewsReal Blog

Politicians and media have yet to face the fact that there is no true science to support the claim of Global Warming. Many will fight to keep the dream of global taxation of carbon alive. More savvy politicians, like Yvo de Boer, who resigned today from his position as the UN’s top Climate Change official, will get while the getting is good. Let’s hope that the Global Warming vampire has taken a bullet to the heart and that Washington DC gets a few more feet of snow this winter.

Urban parks: a global warming downer? | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

Townsend-Small said that turf emissions vary according to region. Studies would need to be done in wetter northern climates. There, she said, grass might not need irrigation, but it would also store less carbon during cold winter months.

For Southern California residential lawns, she noted, using rakes rather than leaf-blowers and hand mowers rather than gasoline-powered equipment would improve their carbon footprint.