Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Harsh cold hits Fairbanks Interior Alaska

Saturday’s low temperature of 47 below at the airport topped the previous cold temperature for the winter of 44 below on Jan. 3 and marked the ninth day of the winter — eight in January and one in November — with a low temperature of 40 below or colder, meteorologist Cory Bogel with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks said. The average number of days with a temperature of 40 below or colder for winter over the past 30 years is seven, he said.

The slow cooling of our interglacial | The Rational Optimist…

. Greenland ice cores and other proxy records show that temperatures peaked around 7,000 years ago, when the Arctic Ocean was several degrees warmer than today, trees grew farther north in Siberia and the Sahara was wet enough for hippos (Africa generally gets wetter in warm times). Data from the southern hemisphere reveal that this "Holocene Optimum" was global in extent.

Carbon tax: India may put curbs on EU carriers | Firstpost

New Delhi: India has threatened to review the benefits it provides to European airlines as it mounted its opposition to the EU move to impose carbon tax on Indian carriers operating through Europe, a source said.