The Media, Climate Science, and Deniers: Time to Tell a New Story | Peter Lehner's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

If the science is so unassailable that the last few hold outs are giving up their skeptical stands, isn’t it time for the media to stop trying to “balance” climate articles? The press doesn’t cover evolution or the physics of a hurricane’s path as if it were up for debate. Why should it persist in treating climate change like an open question.

Perhaps more important, why give the impression that the flat Earth crowd is representing a point of view backed by facts? To deny that fossil fuels emit vast amounts of carbon dioxide, that carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere, that the excess carbon dioxide acts just like a greenhouse glass, and that temperatures are rising as a result is simply the equivalent of asserting the Earth is flat. Climate deniers should be viewed in the same light.

The dispute over climate science is over.

Give Me Inefficient Lighting or Give Me Death! | Mother Jones

...this is a matter of liberty for Erickson—the freedom to choose wasteful, inefficient lighting is an American right, darn it.

Old Farmer's Almanac: Global cooling to continue - Nation - TheState.com

DUBLIN, N.H. — Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."

Poole Hospital's hip fracture patients waiting too long for surgery (From Bournemouth Echo)

A Poole Hospital spokesman pointed out that as the major trauma centre for east Dorset it operates on more hip fracture patients than any other hospital in England and that the audit period covered a record period for hip fractures during the recent cold snap.