Cold Blast Claims Over 600 Lives Across Eastern Europe…”Death Toll Keeps Rising…State Of Emergency”

It’s the worst cold snap in Russia in over 70 years. Hundreds have already frozen to death across Eastern Europe. But you won’t be hearing about this in the mainstream media.

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: ABC shouldn't have a view on Global Warming

Mr Newman finishes his latest piece:

As a taxpayer-funded organisation, the ABC shouldn't even have a view on global warming. What it does have is a duty to all Australians to broadcast honestly the best available evidence on both sides of the argument so that we can make up our own minds. This is not happening.

I retain a deep affection for the ABC. But, like the BBC, there are signs that a small but powerful group has captured the corporation, at least on climate change.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: WSJ: 'The climate-change justification for a carbon tax is bogus'

Advances in climate science, meanwhile, raise even more doubt about the assertion that human activities are the primary cause of warming. Former NASA scientist Roy Spencer, for example, has shown that temperatures since 1976 have risen and stabilized in parallel with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a natural climate pattern affecting all sorts of natural phenomena. An increasing number of experts now admit that natural variability is poorly understood and poorly reflected in the models that are the foundation of so much climate-change dread.

Crystal Mountain Ski Area - 90 inches of snow since Sunday

“That’s more than 7 feet (2m) of snow in just 5 days!” says reader Chuck Clancy.