Tuesday, January 10, 2012

This Winter's Weirdly Warm Weather Explained - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com - msnbc.com

As for what's ultimately beneath the weather rut we're in, climate change is a tempting target but global warming is not necessarily to blame. In fact, a warmer world would cause warmer oceans, Weber said -- and an opposite pattern from what we're seeing. Other theories include low solar activity and melting Arctic ice.

Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality | The Colorado Independent

...just as it lacked scientific validity to point to Vail’s record 525 inches of snowfall last season as proof that climate change is a hoax (which many [which ones?] conservatives gleefully did), ski industry experts say it’s wrong to totally blame the current drought (just 88 inches so far at Vail) on human-caused heating of the planet.

Lebanon:electricity and heating out of order-due to the cold - Lebanon - ANSAMed.it

(ANSAmed) - BEIRUT, JANUARY 10 - Long hours of blackout due to power cuts, cold houses due to shortfalls in fuel distribution
and the wave of cold weather that has hit Lebanon over the past week highlights the shortcomings of the provision of services to the population.

Carbon-Based: Nepal gets Euro 16.5m for project on climate change

The Himalayan Online: The United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) have extended a grant assistance of Euro 16.5 million (NRS 1.8 billion) to Nepal for the implementation of Nepal Climate Change Support Programme (NCCSP): Building Climate Resilience in Nepal.

Global CO2 [scam] market totals 96 billion euros in 2011 | Reuters

 The North American carbon market's value also declined, falling to 221 million euros in 2011 compared with 367 million in 2010.

 Point Carbon attributed the near 40-percent drop in value mainly to limited activity in the over-allocated Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade scheme covering nine U.S. states in the northeast.

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