Bulgaria: Bulgarian Town Declares Emergency after Snow Cuts Off Power, Water - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency

According to Bozukov, Chepelare has not seen such heavy snowfall for the past 20 years.

Wind Farms Earn £1 Million To Shut Down Over Christmas And New Year Gales

Wind farm operators have been paid more than £1 million since Christmas Eve to turn off their turbines.

Scripps blockbuster: Ocean acidification happens all the time — naturally « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

There goes another scare campaign.

Until recently we had very little data about real time changes in ocean pH around the world. Finally autonomous sensors placed in a variety of ecosystems “from tropical to polar, open-ocean to coastal, kelp forest to coral reef” give us the information we needed.

It turns out that far from being a stable pH, spots all over the world are constantly changing. One spot in the ocean varied by an astonishing 1.4 pH units regularly. All our human emissions are projected by models to change the world’s oceans by about 0.3 pH units over the next 90 years, and that’s referred to as “catastrophic”, yet we now know that fish and some calcifying critters adapt naturally to changes far larger than that every year, sometimes in just a month, and in extreme cases, in just a day.

Hans Jelbring: Reaching for Utopia and saving our world « Tallbloke's Talkshop

Saving our world seems a selling slogan for politicians of all colors. To save the country where they live seems harder to achieve.