Elderly at risk as money for heating help runs out - Home News, UK - The Independent

Office for National Statistics figures show that 28,160 deaths were related to the cold weather over four months last winter, and charities – which point out that the UK has the highest winter death rate in northern Europe – fear the figure will rise this year. Earlier this month, two pensioners in Cumbria – Lillian Jenkinson, 80, and William Wilson, 84 – were believed to have frozen to death at home.

No Warming in West Palm Beach

Why does all this matter? It's all a hoax! "Emissions" cannot possibly be leading to global warming 'cause it isn't getting warmer, and I don't want to hear, "Mr. Limbaugh, the day-to-day temperatures and weather is far different than the study of climate science." It may be but you're gonna have a tough time convincing everybody freezing themselves to death while their heat bills go up and up and up while you tell 'em they are destroying the planet with global warming. So we are in the midst of -- nothing is real -- a fraud a day brought to you by the left. Everything's a hoax, and it's all designed to separate you from your money and to agree with enhanced government powers around the world. And people are very willing to accept responsibility. Everybody wants to matter. That's one thing I've learned over my short but highly valuable and productive life: Everybody wants to matter. Nobody likes to say think they're irrelevant. Nobody likes to say get up every day and think that their life doesn't count, it doesn't affect anything, it doesn't matter.

Warming skeptic gets key Science post - On Congress - POLITICO.com

Leading House climate skeptic Jim Sensenbrenner appears to have landed a perch to lead investigations into global warming science.

The Wisconsin Republican is set to become the vice chairman of the House Science Committee under incoming Chairman Ralph Hall (R-Texas), Hall told POLITICO Thursday.

“With his background, his insistence, he can do the mean things that we don’t want to do,” Hall said. “I’m a peaceful guy; he likes combat.”

Severe cold sweeps across much of nation | The Japan Times Online

Severe cold gripped the nation Thursday, with temperatures in some locations dropping to their lowest so far this winter, the Meteorological Agency said.

The mercury fell to as low as minus 21.7 in Kitami, Hokkaido, the record low in the city for the month of December, the agency said.