Is global warming causing harsher winters?

Millions of people in northern Europe are still battling snow and ice, wondering why they are being punished with bitter cold when—officially—spring has arrived and Earth is in the grip of global warming.

Yet some scientists, eyeing the fourth year in a row of exceptionally harsh late-winter weather in parts of Europe and North America, suggest warming is precisely the problem.  [Remember back when we were having milder winters and the settled consensus was that global warming should cause harsher winters?  I don't.]

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: A Brutal March in UK.. colder ...

A Brutal March in UK.. colder than Feb/Jan, which were both colder than average. When has this happened before? pic.twitter.com/JcFI9tScEk

Ben Parfitt: The campaign to discredit the B.C. auditor general's report on carbon neutrality | Georgia Straight

As word circulated that the report would cast into doubt that the provincial government had in fact made any serious headway in its carbon neutral commitments, an orchestrated campaign began to discredit what was in the report before it ever saw the light of day.

It is now evident that the organization that spearheaded that campaign was none other than Pacific Carbon Trust, a Crown corporation set up by the provincial government for the express purpose of buying “carbon offsets”, or emission reductions achieved by third parties.

Environmentalists Don't Know What To Do About Obama's Position On Keystone XL

President Obama may approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline later this year, but that hasn't stopped him from accepting money from activists looking to stop its construction.