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American Dialect Society picks 'tweet,' 'Google' as top words for 2009, decade - washingtonpost.com

"Twitter" the word of 2009 and "global warming" the word of the decade.

Bitter cold stretches south, but milder weather in forecast for some - CNN.com

Key West already set a record low temperature on Thursday, bottoming out at 47 degrees -- shattering the previous low set back in 1897.

Not such a silly question? | John Redwood MP

The global warming theorists were out in force on this site to condemn for me for asking a simple question of Mr Ed Miliband. They accused me of being silly, of failing to grasp the “settled science” and of wasting Parliament’s time and money. The question was “Why is the Northern hemisphere winter so cold, and which climate model predicted this?”. If the question was so wayward, why couldn’t Mr Miliband answer it?

They made a number of false claims about me. They said I did not understand the distinction they draw between climate and weather. Of course I understand that. The point at issue is when does enough weather become climate? When does a succession of cold winters and/or summers affect the averages sufficiently to change the trend? Some used to think that if it got colder – or warmer – for a decade that was “climate”. Now it appears the global warmists think it has to be a trend for 30 years.

Listen to the Earth, But Also to the Bean Counters - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online

[from a reader] I agree with you, but I just want to point out the harm that is done by your statement that “reality is almost surely somewhere closer to the middle.” You have no basis for that conclusion other than the pressure against deniers and toward consensus. The facts are we don’t know, and until we know there is no way to determine if switching to other fuels will be more cost effective than building more sea walls and desalination plants. But spending our money to treat a wrongly diagnosed cause will leave little left to deal with the impacts.

Climate Feedback: Sea stars suck it up

The echinoderms - a group of marine animals including sea stars, sea urchins and sea lilies - bury much more carbon than previously suspected, finds a new study published in the journal Ecological Monographs.

Al Fin: Sun Takes Unprecedented Holiday

If multiple long, slow solar cycles begin to line up in a row -- like airliners waiting in a queue at Chicago's O'Hare -- Earth's climate may be in for a long, cold few decades.

Energy Tribune- The Persistent Delusion of ''Energy Independence'': Despite the Facts, Democrats, Republicans, and the Neoconservatives Continue To Hype Energy Autarky

1. According to the Energy Information Administration, just 18% of our oil imports come from the Persian Gulf.

2. The US produces 74% of all the energy it consumes. The remaining 26% (almost all of which is oil) is imported. And as stated above, only 18% of that 26% comes from the Persian Gulf, Thus, just 4.7% of US primary energy comes from the Persian Gulf.