Tucson's Last Stand draws 6,000

Richard Colasuonno, a 68-year-old retired New York City teacher, carried a sign that said, “Thank you Joe Wilson” on one side, in a nod to the Congressman who yelled “You lie!” to the President during his health care speech. Colasuonno maintained Obama lied about several things, including making government more transparent. On the flip side, the sign in part read, “The radicals are at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — not here.”
“I don’t like the direction the country is going in,” he said, citing healthcare plans and the cap and trade bill designed to counter carbon emissions. “When you have a government that has total control, you end up with tyranny.”

Chilly weather follows record early snowfall | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

While the cold wasn't unusual, the snow certainly was, said Craig Cogil, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Johnston. The first snow of autumn set a record. The Des Moines airport recorded 1.1 inches of snow Saturday morning, the earliest more than an inch of snow has fallen in the capital city since records began in 1884. The previous record was Oct. 20, 1916.

The BBC’s amazing U-turn on climate change – Telegraph Blogs

I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades.
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The BBC now has serious questions to answer. It has used millions of pounds of licence-payers’ money to advance a simplistic point of view that is beginning to fall apart under scrutiny. Did it not foresee that this might happen? And, now that statistics are beginning to point in the other direction, is it prepared to give equal prominence to a debate about climate change that is both respectable and urgent?

New [climate fraud] scheme turns heat on rich nations

“The level of new funding can be set at 0.5 percent to 1 percent of the GNP [gross national product] of [industrialized countries],” states the text of the developing world’s proposal.

[Texas: Record cold]

People around the Texas Panhandle dug out their warmest clothes as a wintry blast moved through the region on Saturday, packing freezing temperatures and rain. The arctic cold front, expected to linger through today, also crushed a number of Oct. 10 weather records.