Fish death fears as pools freeze over « Express & Star

Fish are dying and thousands more are at risk after a fishing pool in the Black Country froze over during the cold spell, it emerged today.

The Virginian: Media lags climate change by 15 years

During one of the coldest days in a long time (Chesapeake, VA 30⁰) in our temperate part of the world, the Virginian Pilot issues one of its periodic catastrophe warnings: global warming will cause Norfolk to drown. Quick run, it may already be too late. The fact that even the people who brought you the global warming hoax have now admitted that the earth’s temperature has not increased in the last decade, the news media is still busy flogging a decomposing horse and is, as usual far, far behind the times. At the AccuWeather blog they are claiming that the "missing heat" is hiding! When faith and reality collide, true believers stick with faith and become more shrill.

Using doom and gloom so people take climate change seriously doesn't work | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

Remember that campaign Stop Climate Chaos? It was meant to scare the hell out of us with threats of heatwaves, droughts, rising tides… Now it just sounds like a Daily Mail headline castigating the government for not gritting the roads.

It's bad enough getting gloomy at the glacial rate of progress over in Cancún. Now that's compounded by the sense that the public aren't – how shall we put it? – exactly with us on this one. My cab driver the other night summed it up: "What are they doing trying to stop this global warming, eh? Bring it on!" I didn't have the heart to disagree. And even if I did, my breath would have frozen on the window.