Less snowmelt in Antarctica (environmentalresearchweb blog)

The Antarctic melting index has averaged about 35 million km2 days per year (October to September, to be sure of keeping the austral summer months together) between 1980 and 2008. Here comes the intriguing feature: in 2009 it was only 17.8 million km2 days, which is not only a record low but also continues a trend towards lesser annual indices that began in 2005. The melt extent (the area experiencing at least one day of melting) was the second lowest recorded, reaching only half the average of 1.3 million km2.
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Antarctica is a happy hunting ground for climate denialists, but they need to be ignored because they are on a wild goose chase. In the first place, anomalous patterns of temperature change haven’t stopped melting rates from accelerating, and ice shelves from disintegrating, in the warmest part of the continent. Second, global warming is global. Regional non-warming, and even regional cooling, don’t invalidate the main conclusion. The fact that we don’t understand why Antarctica is anomalous doesn’t invalidate it either.

Conservationist: [Fraudsters: Insert name of current location here] 'bull's eye' for climate change effects | SummitDaily.com

DENVER — The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the “bull's eye of climate change” and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of warmer temperatures.

Larry Schweiger, National Wildlife Federation president and chief executive, is visiting Colorado and other states to rally support for federal legislation addressing climate change by mandating cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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[caption] The Greater sage grouse is 100 percent dependent on sagebrush for survival. Warming weather could threaten sagebrush along with the many species that depend on it.

[Speaking of Colorado] « Climate Sanity

[Alarmist Kevin Trenberth] Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).
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The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

Experts Scratching Their Heads Over SEC Global Warming Guidance - FOXBusiness.com

“We can’t model climate change regionally; everyone – even the apocalyptics - knows that,” said Patrick Michaels, a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the libertarian Cato Institute and a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “How is an individual company supposed to value the potential and actual impacts of climate change? I would be loath to try to value a stock based on climate changes that may happen 50 years from now.”

Obama Energy Director Browner, Chairman Markey, Denver Mayor Among Experts to Discuss Green Future for U.S. Cities, on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, From 8:30 - 10:00 A.M., at Washington's National Press Club - FOXBusiness.com

DESCRIPTION: U.S. News & World Report's National Issues Briefing, "Going Green: America's Cities and the Role of Government," will evaluate the current relationship between federal, state and local governments over issues in sustainable development and energy efficiency. The Briefing will consider how the federal government, through stimulus funds and other efforts, is helping states and cities adopt green initiatives and technologies, and examine how cities, working with federal agencies, can better convert old-line industries into advanced-energy businesses, encourage green construction and better allocate goods and services that will strengthen prospects for a more sustainable society. The Briefing will also address how governments at all levels can reduce impediments to free market, or private efforts to create green buildings and increase energy efficiency.  [Why isn't "climate" mentioned in this description?]