How Obama’s green energy policies are bad for the poor | WashingtonExaminer.com

President Obama has made so-called “green energy” policies a key part of his economic agenda, but as a new book argues, they actually disproportionately hurt the poor by boosting the cost of energy.

Iceland Research — 8,000 Years Of Natural, Extreme Global Cooling & Warming | The Next Grand Minimum

Research out of Hvítárvatn, Iceland confirms that over the past 8,000 years, there have been five extreme, natural climate phases: the Roman warming, the Dark Ages cooling, the Medieval warming, the Little Ice Age and the current warming.

The analyzed evidence indicates that the Little Ice Age (LIA) was the coldest period over the last 8,000 years. Since the LIA was the coldest, it would not be unusual for the natural climate rebound to exhibit significant warming, which the Modern Warming period has.

Weather Extremes : The Most Intense Tropical Storms on Earth Yet Recorded | Weather Underground

The past 6 years (since 2006) have seen a period of relative quiet so far as these monster tropical storms are concerned. Prior to Super Typhoon Sanba this month, there has been only one other 900 mb or stronger storm recorded on earth: Typhoon Megi in 2010. The 1990s was the decade with the most such storms with 1997 the single most active year with an amazing 10 such storms.  [Hat tip: CJ]