Study: Sierra snowfall consistent over 130 years

Snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has remained consistent for 130 years, with no evidence that anything has changed as a result of climate change, according to a study released Tuesday.

Climate-change scepticism: Trouble in the Heartland | The Economist

The Heartland Institute provides $300,000 a year in stipends to the climate-sceptical Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently to help it rubbish the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The NIPCC, which holds regular shindigs for sceptical scientists in New York and Washington, claims to be “an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change”.

Tory Party heavyweights in public clash over UK's green agenda > Opinion > Opinion | Click Green

Two Conservative Party grandees have had an astonishing public dust-up over the UK's plans to invest in a green economy.

Former Chancellor Lord Lawson, a renowned climate sceptic, launched a personal attack on fellow former Cabinet member Tim Yeo accusing him of “economic illiteracy” and of promoting a “fashionable obsession”.

UN aid chiefs call for $725mn for drought-hit Sahel - Yahoo!7

The effects of climate change mean that droughts are becoming increasingly common in the desert region, the WFP said.

Flashback: The Sahel Is Greening

 According to the United Nations, the outlook for the people in the Sahel was bleak.

However, in sharp contrast to this gloomy outlook, it seems that global warming has exactly the opposite effect on the Sahara and the Sahel. The Sahara is actually shrinking, with vegetation arising on land where there was nothing but sand and rocks before. The southern border of the Sahara has been retreating since the early 1980s, making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa.