Obama and Romney on climate change science - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

Obama purports to take the issue very seriously but appears unwilling or afraid to address the issue substantively front and center.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds solar activity has a strong influence on Arctic winter severity

A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds the ice winter severity index over the past 600 years in the Baltic region of the Arctic is "strongly modulated" by solar activity over periods as short as one decade. The authors also found that the 180 year cycle of the Barycenter modulates solar activity and the ice winter severity index.

Fraunhofer Institute Director (Who Has Vacation Home In California) Demands Expensive Electricity For The Poor

Rudolf Kipp at Science Skeptical reports on Director of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany brings us this glittering example of how arrogant and detached from reality the scientific elite among us can be.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The German dream world of windmills on water has turned into an enormous fiasco

Things are not looking good for German chancellor Angela Merkel and her government. The economy is slowing down, the euro crisis shows no signs of easing, and the chancellor´s hastily undertaken energy transition policy is turning into a huge failure:

Perisher in Australia extends ski season

“Deep snowpack enables Perisher to extend its ski season,” says reader Joshua Cooley. “Global warming” aka “climate change” aka “climate disruption” STILL not shutting down ski areas as climate alarmists claimed would be happening by now. When they fed garbage into their computer models, out came garbage.”