Dispute looms as Russia suspends Belarus energy supplies | Business | guardian.co.uk

Gas imports are more easily disrupted than oil because most gas is still supplied through fixed pipelines which can be turned on or off, whereas oil can be shipped by tanker from all over the world. This latest dispute with Belarus is unlikely to result in European countries going short of oil as they will be able to buy in supplies from elsewhere, albeit at a higher price.

Leeds University students snowed in for two days at highest pub in UK | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Supplies of draught beer were down to Black Sheep's Riggwelter as the group from Leeds University cross country club consoled themselves amid 7ft drifts.
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An even longer siege by the weather is still under way at Cape Wrath on Scotland's north-western tip, where John Ure, 57, is waiting for his wife Kay to return with the ingredients for Christmas dinner. Mrs Ure went shopping in Durness, 11 miles away by boat and car, on 19 December but the road was then closed by snow and she has been holed up in a friend's caravan ever since.

Copenhagen dashes 3rd world expectations

They don’t know how we learned that global warming was coming, and they haven’t seen any evidence that it will. But we said we’d make them rich, and since we decided not to, they’re unhappy.

EU Referendum: And Korea

Note ... "the worst since ... 1937". If this is global warming, then God help us if we actually get a cooling cycle.

EU Referendum: And Russia

Moscow is covered in deep snow (picture left) and the snowfall in St Petersburg has broken a 130-year record.

Much further east, from the New York Times we learn that five days of blizzards and avalanches have paralysed the Russian island of Sakhalin, cutting off air and sea links to the mainland, stranding dozens of motorists on highways, and burying a train, along with three railway workers, under snow drifts 10 feet deep.

Extreme weather linked to climate change, say Chinese

FREAK snowstorms and record low temperatures sweeping northern China are linked to global warming, say Chinese officials.