As we count the cost of the freeze, Government prepares for global warming - Telegraph

The authorities continue to prepare for 'rising temperatures' despite a succession of unprecedentedly cold winters, says Christopher Booker
---
As we emerge, temporarily perhaps, from weeks of the coldest weather since records began – with snow disasters right round the northern hemisphere, from the US and Europe to China and Mongolia – more examples come to light of how the cost of extreme cold is far greater than that of warming. We already have a £9.6 billion backlog to cover repairs to roads damaged in previous winters, and the price of repairing the potholes and crumbling asphalt caused by this winter’s even more intense cold threatens to raise that by billions more (even though Government cuts will trim that budget by 15 per cent).

Hottest Year Ever : Coldest Year In England Since 1986 | Real Science

The ninth coldest year in the last century.

Monbiot : Heat Freezes Pipes! | Real Science

Monbiot studying the Nixon White House playbook. These people can never admit that they were wrong.

What we need in 2011 is an opposition - Telegraph

A third hugely important issue on which all our main parties are unanimous is the grotesque hijacking of our energy policy through the obsession of our political class and the EU with global warming. As we shiver through a third freezing winter in a row, heading towards an unprecedented energy crisis, all that matters to them is their infatuation with building thousands more useless and absurdly expensive windmills. Last Thursday night, the amount of electricity supplied to the grid by wind turbines was again a mere one thousandth of the total. Again we were importing 40 times that much power from France, generated by nuclear reactors.