BBC News - Record snowfall in northern Japan

Northern Japan usually has a high snow fall but this year's has broken all records.

At one spot south of the city of Aomori the snow blanket is more than five metres (16ft) thick, the most ever recorded.

Twitter / DrShepherd2013 [Hooray!  AMS pays for completely unnecessary allegedly planet-killing fossil-fueled flights for students!]

AMS Meeting Student Travel Grant Opportunities! An example of member benefits http://buff.ly/13tDHGv "

AMS Travel Grants

The grant will cover round‑trip air travel (within North America) to the meeting

Speech opening Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research | Margaret Thatcher Foundation

[Margaret Thatcher, 1990] half of all the carbon dioxide emitted since the Industrial Revolution is still in the atmosphere