Beware greens bearing gifts - Washington Times

When Neville Chamberlain came back to Britain after negotiating the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, he announced that he had achieved "peace in our time." We all know how that turned out. Mr. Graham is now trying a similar dance with the greens, the would-be totalitarians of the 21st century. Let's hope Senate Republicans have enough Winston Churchills among them to block Mr. Graham's futile and perilous appeasement.

32% Confident Congress Represents Their Best Interests - Rasmussen Reports™

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 32% of likely U.S. voters are even somewhat confident that their representatives in Congress are actually representing their best interests. That figure includes just eight percent (8%) who are very confident of that fact.

Top British firms drag their feet to reduce carbon footprints | Environment | The Guardian

A report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) says a lack of ambition from companies in the energy, materials and utilities sector threatens government plans to cut emissions by 2020.

Tips on how to cycle in snow | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Up in Vermont, I rode on dirt roads carpeted in packed snow and sand: with a windchill of -20C, the biggest issue was avoiding frostbitten fingers; staying upright was no problem.

Saving the bacon: The Copenhagen Post

Pig farmers rush to save hundreds of pigs trapped beneath a snow-laden roof in northern Jutland

Brutal week for homeless expected: The Copenhagen Post

With temperatures predicted to remain under freezing for at least another week – and falling to a chilly -13C on Friday – humanitarian organisations are expressing grave concerns over the fate of the homeless.
Just before Christmas, two homeless men froze to death, one in the Jutland town of Horsens and the other in the northern Jutland town of Skagen. Low temperatures from 20-22 December hovered around -11C in the Copenhagen area and got down to -15C in mid-Jutland.

Cold Iguanas Free-Fall From Trees - Miami News Story - WPLG Miami

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Record lows across South Florida are literally freezing the invasive iguana in its tracks.

Kamikaze iguanas, plummeting from their treetop perches, have long been a Floridian urban legend. On Wednesday morning, Local 10 caught the free-falling lizard on tape.

January's freeze will persist at least into weekend - St. Petersburg Times

At the Rawlins Tropical fish farm in Lithia, owner Art Rawlins called the weather situation critical.

"I expect a disaster before the week's out," Rawlins said.

The temperature in one of his ponds was 54 degrees Wednesday morning. The fish inside, accustomed to water near 72 degrees, were very lethargic, Rawlins said.

It will be a while before he can start counting fatalities. Dead fish don't float when the water's so cold, he said.

Global Warming is Dead. Long Live Global Warming! | Psychology Today

So strap on your boots, gloves, and thermal underwear, and remember, this is what winter feels like. Sometimes it's cold, sometimes it's damned cold, and sometimes it's not so bad. A colder-than-average January doesn't disprove climate change any more than one warmer-than-average month confirms it.

Deep freeze in South kills 6, harms Fla. crops

Authorities said four people in Tennessee, one in Mississippi and one in South Carolina have died from the cold since the weekend. They included a man with Alzheimer's who wandered out into his yard in Nashville and froze to death, and a homeless man found dead in a tent in South Carolina.

The total doesn't include people who died in car accidents on icy roads and in fires started by stoves and space heaters.

Midwest Bracing for Heavy Snow, Wind Chills of -50 - ABC News

Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as residents braced Thursday for heavy snow and wind chills as low as 50 below zero.
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"It's brutally cold, definitely brutal," meteorologist Tony Zaleski said.

Several deaths have been blamed on the cold. An 88-year-old woman died of hypothermia Tuesday in her unheated Chicago home...

Tulsa World: Wind chill minus 13: Residents warned of risk of hypothermia

As bitterly cold temperatures approached the Tulsa area this week, emergency medical personnel are urging people to stay warm to avoid a potentially life-threatening condition called hypothermia.

Pajamas Media » Bast: Understanding the Global Warming Delusion (PJM Exclusive)

A poll of climate scientists reveals they still believe in AGW, though they do not believe their models are any good. Now that's delusion.
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The histories of other “extraordinary popular delusions,” as Charles Mackay labeled them in 1841, suggest it may take decades for elite opinion to acknowledge the truth. Some very bright people will go to their graves still believing in “global warming.”

But believing is not knowing, and that crucial difference both caused and is spelling the end of one of the great delusions of our age.