India - Cold wave takes death toll higher; ["expert" blames global warming]

New Delhi, January 7 (Agencies): The toll in the current spell of cold wave in north India has climbed to 195 with 38 more deaths. Intense cold in Uttar Pradesh left 31 more persons dead in different districts. Agra, which recorded 5.4 degree Celsius, was coldest place in the state. In Bihar, seven more cold related deaths occurred taking the toll in the state to 21.
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An expert on climactic changes at the Regional Meteorological Centre said the severity has been felt this time because of the fact that global warming has pushed average temperatures by three or four degrees over the past decade.

FWC Rescues Two Manatees In One Day

In St. Petersburg, FWC biologists rescued a juvenile female manatee from a canal. Rescuers pulled the nearly 7-foot female manatee from the 53-degree water. Prolonged exposure to water of that temperature can lead to cold-stress syndrome and ultimately death in manatees. Biologists took the manatee to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.

Lack of snow and ice removal hinder physically disabled | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

The combination of the Christmas Eve blizzard, the rain that followed, and our current run of cold weather, have left streets and sidewalks around Minnesota an icy mess. But if you think being in a car is treacherous right now, imagine what it's like if you're in a wheel chair or on crutches.

Minneapolis resident Haddayr Copley-Woods says getting around Minnesota in the winter is especially difficult for her and other people with physical disabilities.

OCRegister.com : Editorial: Time to re-examine that 'settled' science

New scientific evidence and political realities demand rethinking California's plan to impose economy-stifling rules and congressional and Obama administration plans for even more potentially devastating interventions to curb manmade greenhouse gases.

Clearly, the science is not settled, as claimed, and the politics even less so. If the global warming case is solid, scientists who advocate it should be willing to permit extensive review, something they resisted for years.

"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it," Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit at the U.K.'s East Anglia University, complained in 2005 when a fellow scientist inquired.

We may now understand his resistance. Questionable global warming claims increasingly are being challenged, as is their advocates' credibility. Documents leaked in December from Mr. Jones' center suggest data was manipulated, perhaps purposely distorted and definitely withheld from critics to prevent challenges.

Wasn't belief in global warming behind the failure to stock enough grit? – Telegraph Blogs

Do those deeply patronising BBC science correspondents who try to explain to us (as if we were backward children), that “weather” and “climate” are very different things – and therefore we should not assume that the current Arctic conditions cast doubt on the global warming thesis – actually think that they are doing their bit for “objective coverage” of climate change?
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Unfortunately, there is one categoryof simpletons who seem to have been seriously misled by the weather/climate confusion. Surely the under-supply of grit and rock salt for de-icing Britain’s roads is not unconnected to the fact that the municipal authorities actually believed the global warming propaganda and thought that we would never again be likely to have the sort of winter we are enduring now.

Weather vs. Climate: Cold Snap Does Not Mean No Global Warming - [Alarmist BILL BLAKEMORE] ABC News

"We have a gradual warming of Earth's system, but that is interspersed with a strong natural variability in the system," [Mark Serreze] said. "This is just the way the system works." 
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[includes a video comparing the Titanic (filling with water), with our atmosphere (allegedly filling with greenhouse gases)]