Climate sceptic to add to hot air debate | Environment | Telstra BigPond News and Weather

The man known [since when?] as the high priest of climate change sceptics, Lord Christopher Monckton, will fire up the debate with a speaking tour of Australia starting this month.

It's not snow but it's pretty close | abcactionnews.com

PASCO COUNTY, FL - It's not quite snow but it's pretty close. Bay area viewers have been calling
ABC Action News with reports of sleet in Pasco, Hernando and Citrus Counties. They've even been sending us pictures.

You can definitely see the accumulation of ice and sleet on the tops of cars.

Md. saves pelicans that failed to migrate - STLtoday.com

This week, as a curtain of bitter cold descended on the region, about 40 brown pelicans were spotted — starving, freezing and in danger of dying _ on a wind-blasted shoreline in St. Mary's County. They weren't supposed to be there: The birds, relatively new arrivals on the Chesapeake Bay, usually migrate south to escape mid-Atlantic winters.
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Four years ago, Maryland officials received reports of dead pelicans washing up in wintertime. Dissections showed that they had died of starvation and cold. And the bad choice not to follow the crowd south.

Harrison, Arkansas - Cold chicken means less bread for growers

Blackburn is currently raising about 85,000 chickens for Tyson Foods on his farm near Carrollton. The extremely cold temperatures have made it necessary to run his five propane-fueled heaters non-stop. He is on his second 1,000-gallon tank in three weeks.

“If this weather — and I’m a weather fanatic; I watch it all the time — holds,” Blackburn said, “at that rate, I’ll have 60 percent of what these chickens will make in propane.”

EXCLUSIVE: The real scandal of climategate: They got the math wrong - The Métropolitain

There is a dangerous misconception that we can change the climate. If the sun is the cause, it is obvious that we cannot control the sun. If the cause is CO2, then we also cannot control the atmospheric temperature. Even if we could reduce carbon emissions to zero today, the warming from CO2 currently in the atmosphere will be with us for centuries. That is how long it will take the excess CO2 to dissolve in the oceans or react with rocks.

The tale of 2 beakers -- both can't be right - washingtonpost.com

I find it considerably ironic that the Jan. 3 Outlook essay "Scientists need to speak up -- and fight back," in which Chris Mooney said that scientists need to more effectively communicate with the general public on matters such as "Climategate" and differing scientific opinions, was illustrated with a picture of two beakers of differing sizes side by side, each labeled "500 ml."

Paint away the carbon dioxide - tech - 09 January 2010 - New Scientist

GROWING grass on your roof and other attempts to make homes carbon neutral are mere "green bling". So says Rachel Armstrong of University College London (UCL), who suggests that her smart paint can turn buildings into carbon sinks.

Energy supplies: When the wind blows | Comment is free | The Guardian

Beware of suspiciously round figures. The only certain thing about the prime minister's claim yesterday that Britain's offshore wind industry "could be worth £75bn and support up to 70,000 jobs by 2020" is that none of those three numbers will turn out to be correct.

China says achieved goal in Copenhagen climate deal | Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said on Saturday.

Supplies reach dangerous levels, businesses struggle in arctic UK weather | The Courier-Mail

WITH temperatures in the some parts of UK only marginally higher than those at the South Pole, many businesses have had their gas turned off and their daily operations severely disrupted.

UK energy operator the National Grid began rationing gas yeserday in central and northwest England.