Pachauri rejects findings on peaks based on essay

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri today dismissed as "unfounded and baseless", claims that its findings on disappearing ice from the world's mountain peaks was based on a doctoral student's essay.

"The allegations (that the finding was based on an essay by a student and an article in a magazine) are totally unfounded and baseless. I maintain that the IPCC monitoring systems are still robust and solid," Pachauri told PTI.

BBC News - Icy slips lead to cancelled surgery

Altnagelvin Hospital has treated 102 people who required surgery after slipping on ice in the past fortnight.

BBC News - NI temperatures hit record lows

Northern Ireland experienced some of its coldest winter months in almost 50 years, Met Office figures have shown.

The combined figures for temperatures in December and January showed they were the coldest since 1962/1963.

Sanjay Khanna: Post Copenhagen Stress Disorder (PCSD)

Said Inhofe to the impromptu media scrum, "There's no [scientific] consensus on climate change." Referring to the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia, he added that climate science was "discredited" because of the emails' content, and that we, the journalists, whom he said were on the "left" didn't understand the "truth."

The European journalists were stunned. A German scribe told Inhofe he was "silly."
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...Which means you should be peeing your pants now -- and for the next five years -- as practice for when this gets visceral, scary, and hard, as opposed to just being mathematically and practically discombobulating.
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Danish designer Torben Bay built a chair prototype that seemed as if it could double as a one-person life raft -- perfect for helping policy negotiators reflect on the climate-change realities they were allegedly attempting to forestall.