Too little baseload power in south Germany-regulator | Reuters

The country switched off 40 percent of its nuclear capacity a year ago in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster, prompting
questions about how well the system would perform during times of high demand such as a recent cold snap across Europe.

Martin Hertzberg: Climate change science is junk science | SummitDaily.com

While I disagree strongly with most of the political positions of the Heartland Institute, they deserve considerable credit for sponsoring a series of conferences of the world's leading meteorologists and climatologists whose papers show clearly that the theory that human emission is causing “global warming/climate change/extreme weather phenomena” is without merit. The attempt in Orestes and Conway's “Merchants of Doubt” to defame and to cast doubt on the integrity of those distinguished scientists, is a disservice to both science and history. For the record, I have not received one cent of financial support from either the CATO or the Heartland Institutes, and I think they are wrong in most of their other political positions.

Global cooling should increase with a quieter sun - Coeur d'Alene Press: Weather Gems

As the current sunspot 'maxima' cycle peaks and then begins to wane in the next couple of years, we should see much colder
temperatures and snowier winter seasons across North America and much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere and, perhaps, even some
other regions of the Southern Hemisphere to the north of Antarctica.

Veteran climate researcher sees major threats

James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an iconic figure among climate researchers, said "even the skeptical scientists now agree" that Earth is undergoing a warming trend.

Hansen told the annual convention of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science that worldwide fossil fuel combustion has pushed the average global temperature up 0.8 degrees Celsius since the 1880s, a trend that could see ocean levels rising several metres by the end of this century.