Copenhagen: Yet Another Giant Beginning with an Uncertain End | YaleGlobal Online Magazine

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the Copenhagen Accord “a beginning.” A beginning? Wasn’t the Framework Convention on Climate Change, negotiated in 1992, a beginning? Wasn’t the Kyoto Protocol a beginning? Why, after two decades of negotiation are we still “beginning”?

Florida Orange Growers Brace for Possible Killing Freeze - WSJ.com

Florida orange growers are bracing for record cold to hit the citrus belt as an arctic blast plunges temperatures into the kill zone Saturday and Sunday nights.

Sleet and snow mixed with rain has been reported Saturday from the Tampa Bay area to near and north of Orlando, the first time snow or sleet has occurred in west-central Florida since Jan. 8, 1996, the National Weather Service in Tampa said.

The immediate Tampa Bay area hasn't seen snow since Dec. 23, 1989.
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Frozen concentrated orange juice futures have gained 17% amid fears that crop damage could be substantial, something that hasn't happened in two decades.

Snowing in Florida? Yes, it is! (photos, video)

Many WFTV viewers submitted iWitness photos of the snow fall and you can see them in a slideshow here: Snowing in Orlando, Florida Photos

There is a miniature snowman that stands about six feet [?] high and a ‘snow shark.’ The snow fell as a result of record lows that have swept the nation bringing an arctic freeze to the Sunshine State.

Our Galileo, Will we do better this time? « the Air Vent

Guest post from Dr. Ismail Bhat, Professor & Head of Department of Geology & Geophysics at University of Kashmir. Dr. Bhat is yet another professional scientist with the understanding and credentials to challenge the consensus. This time on sea level rise, he rightly compares how the current political situation has handled prominent and reasoned disagreement to the inquisition of Galileo by the Romans. How far have we really come since Galileo’s time?
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Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner: the Galileo of our “scientific age”

Biased BBC: David Shukman on weather and climate

As far as the BBC is concerned, some weather events are more climate change than others.