Coldest May Latest: Scots face weather woe as ski fans get snow bonus by Alistair Grant | Climate Realists

Snow started to fall in areas as low as 100 metres yesterday. The Met Office warned frost would grip many areas this morning, as the mercury dipped to -2°C (28°F). Lows of -5°C were predicted for the Central Belt.

Forecaster Brian Gaze, of The Weather Outlook, said: “Skiing looks like a better prospect than sunbathing this weekend.”

Asphalt Heat Islands | Real Science

I just did an experiment in Fort Collins, Colorado at 1:30am.  It is a full moon and the air is dead calm. I took a bike ride with a thermometer, which I have permanently affixed to the bike. It turns out that temperatures are 7F cooler in the open space region below, less than 0.2 miles away from the parking lot of a shopping center.

...Hansen’s assumptions about heat islands are based on population, but I believe that the bulk of the effect occurs when a single asphalt road is put in place. Much of the claimed warming during the 20th century was likely due to the appearance of asphalt roads in rural regions.

Muller’s claims about UHI are similarly flawed, as they are based on population. Comparing large cities vs. small towns is largely meaningless, because all it takes is one asphalt road to produce a lot of warming.

Over on the CSU campus 2.3 miles away, temperatures were much warmer – 57.8 degrees at the official Fort Collins weather station. This station has not moved for 140 years, and shows a lot of warming during that time. It is now located in the middle of a bus parking lot.

How To Become A Connect-the-Dots Campaigner | Omnologos

Take the IPCC SREX report

Find any mention of unusual weather

Remove all words, adjectives, adverbs that indicate uncertainty

Change all verbs from future to present (or near-past) tense

Claim that the resulting mangled mess is “science” and that it is on your side

Scour the planet in the hope somebody, somewhere has had their life ruined by an atmospheric event – collect dramatic pictures about it

Go out on 5/5/12 and shout antiscientific fakehoods to save the planet

EU green goals depend on CO2 market-Acciona | JunkScience.com

The European Union could fail to hit its green goals unless it manages to drive carbon prices on its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to around three times current levels, Spain’s Acciona Energy said.