AFP: Tokyo records rare mid-April snow

TOKYO — Tokyo recorded its latest spring snowfall in more than 40 years on Saturday, when a light dusting mixed with rain fell in the Japanese capital before dawn, the weather agency said.

An unseasonable cold front sent the mercury falling to 1.4 degrees Celsius (35 Fahrenheit), forcing train operators to suspend Shinkansen bullet train services, while roads were closed in some eastern and northern areas.

The Sierra Club: How Support for Industrial Wind Technology Subverts Its History, Betrays Its Mission, and Erodes Commitment to the Scientific Method (Part I) — MasterResource

Energy religionists have run the Sierra Club for some time, and they practice a high church kind of back-to-nature faith in wind as an effective weapon in the war against carbon that is akin to dogma (and as such is not susceptible to right reason). In this, virtually every mainline environmental group has common cause with the Sierra Club in its desire to bring King Coal to his knees, and is similarly inclined about decommissioning coal, nuclear, and hydro power plants.

Reply to: “Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes” « Watts Up With That?

In short, the loss of all ice in Iceland would make the volcanoes less destructive.

- Bishop Hill blog - Overheard

Picking the right team is the sine qua non. A panel of sound people, leavened with a handful of neutrals (purely for effect, you understand) will produce the required result every time. Edward’s appointments to the emails panel were a case in point. True believers are not going to let you down, Bernard.

The true nature of sceptics | The Australian

Unafraid, questioning minds are central to the pursuit of truth and democracy