Extreme La Niña brings illness and misery to Peru | World news | Guardian Weekly

"It's so cold your bones ache," said Dionisia. The whole of Peru is having an unusual cold spell as a result of La Niña, a cyclical climatic phenomenon leading to a cooling of the Pacific Ocean. But the drop in temperatures is also due to a mass of cold air from the south pole, which has also affected Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil.

The Reference Frame: Putin encounters a tiger and an environmentalist

The AFP also shows how shocked the journalists continue to be by Putin's obvious statement from 2003 that 2-3 °C of warming would be helpful to Russia. In the AFP's opinion, that statement has "amazed" the scientists. Well, this observation can only "amaze" scientists whose brains have been surgically removed from their skulls.

Meanwhile, the hot part of Summer 2010 is over on the North Hemisphere. It was a summer in which Moscow has become the most important city in the world once again - because of its natural heat wave in July. A few weeks later, the temperatures in the Russian capital dropped below 10 °C but no one would care about that, would he...

Is ENSO, rather than a ‘Greenhouse Effect’, the origin of ‘Climate Change’? by Erl Happ « Climate Change

Is there evidence that the ENSO phenomenon is in fact ‘climate change in action’, driven by factors other than the increase of atmospheric CO2? Yes, it appears that whatever drives the flux in surface atmospheric pressure drives ENSO and with it, climate change.

Is recent ‘Climate Change’ driven by greenhouse gas activity? No, it appears that the cause of recent warming and cooling relates to long-term swings in atmospheric pressure that changes the relations between mid and low latitudes thereby affecting the trade winds that in turn determine the temperature of the Earth’s solar array, its tropical ocean, and ultimately the globe as a whole.

Newsnight : Complain to the BBC @ Jo Abbess

There is no debate in Climate Change. There is only one position, and that position is that it’s serious and getting worse, although at the moment we just don’t know whether that’s going to turn out as “horribly bad” or “incredibly dangerous”.

Andrew Montford’s view simply does not count and he should not have been invited, not even in the name of so-called “balance”. The “balance” you should have sought would lie between those Scientists who feel that Climate Change is “abrupt and dangerous” and those who feel that it is “catastrophic”.

I demand an apology from BBC Newsnight and from Kirsty Wark for their biased, inaccurate reporting on Climate Change.