Snowfall Increasing In Spokane Washington | Real Science

Sometimes global warming makes it snow more, and sometimes it makes it snow less. The rules are simple – if snowfall is increasing, it is due to global warming. if snowfall is decreasing, it is due to global warming. If temperatures are increasing, it is due to global warming. If temperatures are decreasing, it is due to global warming.

Carbon Ship Sinking: Barclays Bank closes it’s carbon desk « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The future of global carbon trading is so “certain” that Barclays Bank is not even bothering to leave one part time guy in the US office with a post box, so they can pretend they still have an interest in it. The mood has so changed, they see an advantage in letting the world know they’re not wasting a single cent more on carbon trading in the United States of America. Well that made my day

Computer Climate Models — A Masochist’s Best Friend |

Controversy aside, just measuring any one of the factors to be included in computer model simulations, at any given moment in time, is nearly impossible. Among the reasons: The planet is a lot bigger than the average person gives it credit for being.

Alberta hit by record lows as arctic air moves east - Canada - CBC News

On Wednesday, dozens of communities across the province were hit with temperatures below –30 C, and 13 of them were hit with record lows. In the town of Hendrickson Creek, Alta., it was a bone-chilling –41.4.

The frigid temperatures prompted Canada Olympic Park to cancel lessons and close the ski area.

The Pipeline, the Jobs, & the Media « NoFrakkingConsensus

Does anyone really suppose that a 1,700-mile-long pipeline can be constructed without the participation of thousands upon thousands of people? As my husband muttered when he read this story: “The jobs are about as certain as you can get. Someone’s got to build the bleeping thing.”