WWF - St. Andrews course tees up for global climate [hoax] event

The spiritual home of Golf is teeing up to support Earth Hour in a unique way by giving players the chance to take to the greens after dark.

At 8:30 pm this Saturday, The prestigious Torrance Golf Course in St Andrews on Scotland's east coast will host locals and guests of the Fairmont Hotel, who will be sporting some unusual looking kit, including glow necklaces, luminous golf balls and day-glo sticks – all in support of global action on climate change.

“Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing people and nature," Dr Richard Dixon, Director of WWF Scotland said.

AccuWeather.com - Harshest Winter in 31 Years for Europe

The winter of 2009-10 in Europe will make its way into the history books as being the harshest winter Britain and Western Europe has seen in the last 31 years.

The wettest summer on record in Britain was followed by a harsh winter that took lives and caused millions of dollars worth of damage, both structural and economic.
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Precise snowfall records are notoriously hard to find for Europe; however, record snowfall affected London and parts of Scotland this winter. In one 16-hour storm Perth, Scotland, received 13 inches of snow.

The Channel Tunnel or "Chunnel" train's lines froze due to heavy snow and cold temperatures, stranding thousands of passengers. This was the first time the tunnel faced such extreme overnight temperatures.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » 2000 Scientists Demand Climate Action! Part I

Most studies which claim “X will happen given global warming strikes” are in this boat. They all are subject to the rules of conditional probability. And the likelihood they are true are almost always overstated because the theory holders never multiply their probabilities out like we have.

Embarrassing “Skeptical Science” or The Return Of The Aristotelians « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

I was meaning to write about the cringe-inducing website called “Skeptical Science” and today’s Revkin’s piece at dotEarth finally pushed me forward.

I feel embarrassment for John Cook, Skeptical Science author, for two reasons (neither concerning his rather disturbing photograph).