Peter Foster: WWF’s tainted ‘witnesses’ | FP Comment | Financial Post

The fund’s climate witness program is just another fundraising scheme, as indicated by that “Donate!” button

BBC News - Met Office needs more powerful computers - minister

The scientific rationale for the Met Office buying powerful supercomputers to improve weather forecasts is "clear and accepted", a minister has said.

Ed Davey told MPs that such a move would also build greater knowledge of climate change science, but it would have to be justified on cost grounds.

Leading meteorologists have suggested it would bring "enormous" benefits.

Green Mountain State Blasting Its Mountain Tops To Make Way For Industrial Windmills

Sometimes I don’t know whether to sympathize with the protesters, or to tell them “I told ya so, stupid”. This industrialization of Vermont’s landscape is happening because these environmentalists originally spurred it all on with their ridiculous protect-the-climate nonsense, led by kook, dimwit senators like Bernie Sanders.

...Now the protesters are horrified at the consequences of their earlier stupidity and climate folly. Vermont has already ruined the Sheffield heights ridgeline, and now they are busily doing the same to the ridgeline of the Lowell Mountains, both are just a few miles from my boyhood home.

Save the snails plan goes wrong - 800 freeze to death - Monsters and Critics

Wellington - About 800 rare New Zealand giant snails, painstakingly moved out of the way of a coal-mining development four years ago, have frozen to death after a temperature gauge failed in an indoor breeding programme, conservation officials said Thursday.