East German March 2013 Coldest In 130 Years. “Dramatic Temperature Deviations” All The Way To Siberia!

The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Central German Newspaper) reports on Europe’s extended brutal winter. In today’s online article, it reminds us that the cold is not only a phenomenon that is isolated in Central Europe, but one that is widespread and extends all the way across Russia to Siberia.

The Reference Frame: Italy seizes $1.7 billion from Sicilian counterpart of Al Gore

This guy with unsurprisingly close ties to the Mafia (including Matteo Messina Denaro, the widely believed Sicilian Mafia godfather) – which has an intertwined history with "renewable energy" – is accused of being the "Lord of the Wind" and the "King of Alternative Energy". The confiscated assets include 43 wind and solar companies, 98 real estate properties, and 66 banking accounts (it must be handy to have this many).

The New Nostradamus of the North: Sir Nicholas Stern - a leading contemporary charlatan - has again been performing one of his confidence tricks

With the knowledge that "global warming" stopped at least 16 years ago, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand why a charlatan like Stern is still invited to speak as an "expert" at IMF and other similar gatherings. Most likely these people actually want to be conned, in order to be able to avoid making real decisions about real global problems.

- Bishop Hill blog - First day in court

An email correspondent writes to say that he has learned that the first day of hearings in the Mann/NRO libel case will be on 11 April in the District of Columbia.

Thinning Arctic Ice; More Al Gore Aided and Abetted Misinformation?

Maybe Al Gore, whose credibility is on very thin ice, can explain how polar bears survived the 1817 conditions or any of the other variations of weather and ice in the historic record.