Professor slammed after flying 20,000 miles to Tahiti for climate change lecture - mirror.co.uk

Prof Phil Jones’ trip to the ­Pacific is among more than a QUARTER OF A MILLION miles of air travel he has racked up in the past five years.

Another 80 Flannerys needed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It would never have occurred to me that we are so short of warming propagandists that the Gillard Government needs to train 80 more, all fees covered:

Hotter, colder - it’s always global warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

 A dramatic loss of sea ice covering the Barents and Kara Seas above northern Russia could explain why a chill Arctic wind has engulfed much of Europe and killed 221 people over the past week.

Deep freeze kills hundreds across Europe and Asia - China.org.cn

The chilly climate continued to sweep Europe with the death toll rising to more than 220, while parts of Asia were also hit hard as 63 people have died due to a snowstorm in Japan while Seoul, South Korea reported a 55-year record low temperature of minus 17 degrees Celsius.

Snowfall in northern Japan has reached 4.29 meters and some houses could collapse under the heavy weight of snow, according to Japanese weather agencies. The snowstorm also resulted in canceled flights, train delays and gridlock on highways.

Europe’s Extreme Frost Gives Climate Deniers False Hope | UK Progressive

“Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005-2006 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it,” explained Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study and a physicist at the Potsdam Institute.

“These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and north Asia,” he said.

The solar power compromise: Sacrificing desert to save the Earth - latimes.com

BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city with 24-hour lighting, a wastewater processing facility and a gas-fired power plant. To make room, BrightSource has mowed down a swath of desert plants, displaced dozens of animal species and relocated scores of imperiled desert tortoises, a move that some experts say could kill up to a third of them.