Expect a chilly, clear day and near-record lows temperatures overnight

Syracuse, NY -- Central New York will be experiencing Mother Nature’s own cure for spring fever tonight: near-record-low temperatures.

National Weather Service forecasters expect temperatures Friday night into Saturday morning will drop to 14 degrees.

C3: Arctic "Warming" - It Begs A Question: Why Are NASA Climate Scientists So Freaking Stupid?

Willis Eschenbach at WUWT provides a great explanation of how NASA managed to find a huge warming in the Arctic during the incredibly cold 2009-2010 winter for the Northern Hemisphere. (We mentioned this curiosity in a previous post.) It appears NASA methods of fabricating temperatures for the Arctic are so incredibly stupid, no other climate group will utilize the method nor vouch for how NASA does it.

New poll finds Obama tied with Anybody in 2012 vote | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

A new CNN / Opinion Research Poll out this afternoon of 953 registered voters nationally finds Obama tied at 47% with any Republican candidate. Gee, if only Wendell Willkie was still around.

The same poll also finds a clear majority of Americans now believe that Obama is a one-term president.

How La Trobe preaches its wild green faith | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It seems that the unit is being offered to all students (interdisciplinary), regardless of their area of study, on the basis of no pre-requisites or final exam. Effectively, a student could take the unit, (which from the outline seems virtually impossible to fail) in order to avoid an properly tested and examined unit within their discipline. Seems like Mao-esque brainwashing to us.

Record fall in UK greenhouse gases - Telegraph

But Greg Clark, the Tory energy spokesman, said most of the fall was because of the recession.

South Korea to Trade Carbon Emissions Rights - WSJ.com

The environment minister said he is confident that South Korea will host a U.N. climate conference in 2012—an idea unveiled by President Lee Myung-bak during a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen last December.

South Korea and Qatar are competing to host the conference—known as the 18th Convention Of Parties, or COP 18, in 2012. A decision will be made at COP 16 in Mexico in November, environment minister Mr. Lee said.