Gingrich: EPA led by ‘amateur’ | JunkScience.com

EPA isn’t led by amateurs. It’s led by professional socialists who understand that environmental regulation can be used to capture economic control and political power.

HadCRUT : Alabama Temperatures Peaked In The 1930s | Real Science

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds 20th century warming within range of natural variability

A paper published this week in the journal Climate of the Past analyzes an "unprecedentally large network of temperature...proxy records" [a total of 120] and concludes that warming of the 20th century was "within the range of natural variability over the last 12 centuries." Only two of the eight types of temperature proxies analyzed indicate 20th century warming exceeded that of the Medieval Warming Period.

'Germany's George Monbiot' turns climate sceptic – Telegraph Blogs

Global warming could kill off snails ([Junk] Science Alert)

Climate change models must be reworked in a bid to save some of the world’s smallest and slimiest creatures from extinction, a Flinders University PhD candidate warns.

Biological Sciences postgraduate student Coraline Chapperon says any future policies for global warming must consider mobile organisms on rocky beaches – such as snails – and their capacity to survive the predicted rise in extreme conditions such as heatwaves.

Snow Blankets Croatia’s Palms as Cold, Winds Hamper East Europe Rescuers - Bloomberg

Palm trees lining the beaches of the Adriatic sea city of
Split in Croatia were bowed under snow while streets in the port
town were clogged due to a lack of equipment for dealing with
winter conditions.

Temperatures plummet to record low | Prague Monitor

The frost wave claimed 17 lives in the Czech Republic in the past week.