New Met Office report examines climate links to this year’s extended winter | Carbon Brief

This March was the second coldest since records began in 1910, with provisional figures indicating the average UK temperature for the month was 3.3 °C below the 1981 to 2010 long term average.

The Met Office says much of Europe, Russia, Ukraine and the northern USA experienced similarly cold and snowy conditions to the UK.

USA NOAA March 2013 State Temperatures – Florida and South Carolina 5th coldest out of 119 – 114 Were Warmer. | sunshine hours

Florida and South Carolina was coldest state by ranking. 5th coldest out of 119 for March 2013. 114 were warmer.

Mary Nichols | TIME 100: The 100 Most Influential People in the World | TIME.com

[Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson] In her decades of service, she has seen the changes she pushed in California and D.C. — boosting fuel economy, cutting acid rain and greenhouse gases — become global standards. It is the spirit of Californians, she says, with their openness to new things and their love of the planet, that makes it all possible. Amen, sister!

Beware The High Priests of Locavorism | Hoover Institution

The local foods movement is elitist and economically unsound. Why should the federal government subsidize it?