Australian Alps to be "free of snow by 2050" | Australian Climate Madness

As if by magic, in the week that the carbon tax bills are due to be forced through the lower House, the government-funded scare stories appear – right on cue! The Sydney Morning Herald salivates

Green FAIL – FOIA shows dangerous university biomass power plant fraught with problems, closures, explosion | Watts Up With That?

USC’s biomass plant debacle

How the university’s green dream went bust after three ‘potentially lethal accidents’ and a host of other problems

Bookmakers Issue Winter Betting Odds Following Chilly Forecasts - Irish Weather Online

Bookmakers across Ireland and the UK are offering punters reduced odds on a White Christmas following a series of chilly winter outlooks by forecasters.

Paddy Power is providing 6/5 odds of Ireland running out of grit and odds of 11/2 for Winter 2011-2012 to be the coldest on record.

Two homeless people freeze to death in Budapest - Caboodle.hu

They are the first casualties of the cold snap that began a few days ago.