Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 22nd 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

The search for the Hippie of the Year is down to the final six, intemperate hippies hope to send skeptics into orbit and green technology is bad for Gaia.

No turning back to the dark ages

Debunk junk science at the earliest opportunity

Craig and Marc Kielburger: Why We're All Confused About Climate Change

Climate science is complicated and scary, fair enough: but our contributions don't have to be. Even a child can start by learning how much energy we save annually by turning off a light switch, or get permission to watch An Inconvenient Truth. Informed newspaper readers can work their way up to learning more about methyl chloroform.

Despite risks to our psychological comfort, we hope that a fear of climate catastrophe will motivate action, not avoidance.

German solar firms go from boom to bust | Reuters

Since the end of last year, roughly 5,000 companies involved in the solar business have shut up shop, shedding about 20,000 jobs, according to German solar industry group BSW.

40-day Harshest Winter Period 'Chillai Kalan` Begins in Kashmir

Other main towns ofthe Valley are also experiencing an unusually cold winter as the night temperature has stayed below the freezing point for most of December. Frozen taps have become a common sight in the Valley as a thin layer of ice forms overwater bodies due to freezing temperatures during the nights. 

Electricity supply has also reduced due to the cold wave as the glacial discharge in the rivers, which fuels power generation projects, has decreased, resulting in unscheduled load shedding for long hours becoming a daily affair.

...The dry cold weather has resulted in cold-related diseases in the entire Kashmir Valley. Long queues of people could be seen outside the medical shops and in hospitals. 

Doctors have warned that children and elderly persons should not expose themselves to cold, particularly during morning and night hours. 

The dry cold weather has resulted in cough, bad-cold, chest infections and other cold-related diseases. 

White Christmas For All Of New Mexico | Real Science

I lived in New Mexico for many years, starting in the 1950s. This winter is bringing unprecedented cold and snow, which is the exact opposite of what the climate models predicted. The ski area at Los Alamos had their record snow year two years ago, but this year is getting off to a very fast start.