MinnPost - Don Shelby: Probe into climate scientists' stolen emails gets serious

One of the world’s most famous climate scientists, Dr. Michael Mann at the University of Pennsylvania, communicated often with Dr. Jones at East Anglia. In the original reporting, Mann was often quoted, misquoted and taken out of context. Though the investigations have found he did nothing wrong, climategate has nevertheless hurt him.

Mann told me that the people who can’t abide the idea of global warming being true "have no legitimate scientific leg to stand on.  So, they have turned to criminal acts in an attempt to distract the public and policymakers." Dr. Mann is convinced that the criminal act shows the work of "industry-funded front groups and the individuals who do their bidding."

Batter Up: Has Climate Change Benefited Baseball Sluggers? | Txchnologist

The climate-baseball hypothesis is relatively recent. Perhaps the first person to advance it was Simon Donner, a climate scientist at the University of British Columbia and a big Blue Jays fan. Thirteen years ago, when he was doing his Ph.D. research, he noticed that an explosion in home run hitting coincided with 1998 clocking in as what was then the warmest year on record. (It is now ranked third behind 2005 and 2010.)
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Of course, the picture is complicated. The heavy hitting of the late-nineties has since been attributed to performance enhancing drugs and the first decade of the new century has seen a marked decrease in offensive output.

Dying From Heat Waves and Cold Spells in the Czech Republic

they say that "it is probable that reductions in cold-related mortality will be more important than possible increases in heat-related mortality