Bryan Leyland: Wind farms not everything they're cranked up to be - National - NZ Herald News

From the point of view of the people who will be affected by the wind farm, the downside is very large. All over New Zealand groups of local residents have spent millions of dollars of opposing wind farms in their area. This imposes a lot of stress on the people involved and represents an enormous waste of time and effort.

Heaviest December snow in NYC in 6 decades – 5th largest ever – hundreds of other snow records set around the nation | Watts Up With That?

634 snowfall records were set in the USA this past week.

GOP all set to wimp out on EPA? « Green Hell Blog

A key Republican is already laying the groundwork for the 112th Congress’ surrender on the EPA’s climate rules. More surprising is the complicity of a tea party group.

Climate Controlling Ocean Thermostat Discovered | The Resilient Earth

Detailed model studies of the Little Ice Age (~1400 to 1850 AD) conclude that the Sun controls an “ocean dynamical thermostat” that affects climate variability over large regions of the globe. It was also found that fully coupled general circulation models (GCMs), the kind used by the IPCC to make predictions of future global warming, lack a robust thermostat response. This means that the sensitivity of the climate system to solar forcing is underestimated by current GCMs—the climate models are proven wrong again.