Berlin sees most snow in December since 1900s

BERLIN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- German capital Berlin has experienced more snow this month than any other December of past 110 years, as more bitter cold is expected in the country's east, the German Weather Service (DWD) said Tuesday.

Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg have never seen such a thick snow in December for more than a century, as some places received 40 centimeters of snow since Dec. 1, the weather agency said.

Oak View teen wins award for his website » Ventura County Star

Alec Loorz, 15, is one of 10 winners of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

The Oak View teen founded Kids vs. Global Warming, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating youth about climate change. Loorz uses technology and social networking to get his message out.
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Barron Prize winners each receive $2,500 for higher education or their respective projects.

Revkin: Forbes is usually better than this: Larry Bell blasts wildly at "hoax" promulgators on cli

Forbes is usually better than this: Larry Bell blasts wildly at "hoax" promulgators on climate: http://j.mp/ForbOops My reply: Mr. Bell is shooting wildly without checking facts - a common habit at the edges of discourse on climate and energy, sadly.

Almost every one of the elements that the alarmist media supposedly ignored has been described in my New York Times Dot Earth blog and in my earlier print coverage for the paper and such alarmist publications as AARP's magazine -- including the persistent questions about the pace of Greenland ice loss and sea-level rise, the reality that hurricane strength is not a simple function of ocean warming, the conflation of garden-variety climate hazard with warming impacts, the overstatements of certainty on the causes and consequences of climate change.

Nothing Ever Changes | Real Science

During the 1970s, climatologists forecast an ice age – and later denied it. During the past decade, climatologists forecast an end to snow and cold winters – and later denied it. History repeats itself.