Severe sandstorm strikes Beijing, China - Wikinews, the free news source

Beijing has experienced unusually cold weather this year, with temperatures below freezing at night, even after the start of spring.

Green Left - Climate summit 2010: Lessons for the climate movement

The return of the climate deniers highlights the importance of us all being willing to constantly update ourselves about the climate science. It was wrong to ever think that the debate/denial about the science is over.

Climategate: Shameless Science | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

Without a blush of shame, this week’s Science magazine just ran an article called “Contributions of stratospheric water vapor to decadal changes in the rate of Global Warming.” After wiping off the unnecessary words we’re left with: “Global Warming would be here — except for that damned water vapor.” It’s the “woulda coulda shoulda” of the True Believers.

Al Gore’s Ptolemaic epicycles are being rolled onto the scientific stage, to be piled higher and deeper until they fit the curve of real temperatures – a nearly flat line with a little bit of jitter.
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In 1992, when professional doomsayer Paul Ehrlich wangled a ten year appointment for Donald Kennedy to be editor in chief of Science magazine, the planetary doomsters had reached the height of their power. Now Donald Kennedy has resigned. If Science wants to save its last shred of credibility it would be far better off keeping completely quiet on global warming. That’s what their lawyers would advise them.

Science magazine is still trying to whistle past the biggest scientific graveyard in history. Nine trillion dollars can buy a lot of scientists, apparently. But the jig is up. The more they try to prop up this fraud, the more careers will be ruined.

Flashback to July '07: Don Kennedy's Science editorial helps mark the very peak of CO2 insanity

With respect to climate change, we have abruptly passed the tipping point in what until recently has been a tense political controversy. Why? Industry leaders, nongovernmental organizations, Al Gore, and public attention have all played a role. At the core, however, it's about the relentless progress of science. As data accumulate, denialists retreat to the safety of the Wall Street Journal op-ed page or seek social relaxation with old pals from the tobacco lobby from whom they first learned to "teach the controversy." Meanwhile, political judgments are in, and the game is over. Indeed, on this page last week, a member of Parliament described how the European Union and his British colleagues are moving toward setting hard targets for greenhouse gas reductions.