UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings - Telegraph

Weather stations which produced data pointing towards man-made global warming may have been compromised by local conditions, a new report suggests.

Animals dig in for the big freeze - Telegraph

The harsh winter is playing havoc with Britain’s wildlife, says John Lister-Kaye.

Scandinavia-gate « JoNova

Frank Lansner and Nicolai Skjoldby have started a new blog Hide The Decline, and posted that Scandinavian data shows clearly that temperatures got markedly cooler from 1950-1970, before they began rising again, and even after the warming, they only appear to be back where they were. But, all the IPCC graphs minimize the cooling. It would be reasonable to conclude from the data that the temperature today in Scandinavia is roughly similar to that of the 1930’s. But, you’d never know this from looking at the IPCC graphs.

The Snow Line is Moving South « Watts Up With That?

[Steven Goddard] The implication of the observed trend towards increasing snow extent is that the Northern Hemisphere autumn/winter snow line is moving southwards over the last ten to twenty years.

Raypierre Still Doesn’t Get It « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Those minimalistic skills are now spreading elsewhere, with the most simplistic of logical reasoning apparently beyond the grasp of “raypierre”, aka Raymond T Pierrehumbert...

San Francisco Area Prepares for the Electric Car - NYTimes.com

When the president of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael R. Peevey, leased an electric Mini Cooper, he said, it took six weeks of visits by installers and inspectors [did they all arrive on bikes or on foot?] before he could plug in his new car at home.