Now that really IS the wrong type of snow on the line! It's not just in Britain where the weather is bringing travel chaos - Mail Online

As Britain struggles to cope with a few inches of snow, spare a thought for the travellers who were trapped on this train in Mongolia.

Snow drifts several metres deep meant an army of rescue workers had to be sent out to free the passengers from their carriages.

Heavy snow and unusually harsh winter weather snarled up transport across India, northern China and South Korea.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Great news: CIA watching the ice melt

The CIA and the State Department managed to fumble the data that would have prevented the bomber from getting on the plane. Eight years after 9/11 and four years after a massive reorganization of the intelligence community, we are no better at connecting dots to stop an AQ attack, and no better at communication of critical information. Maybe — just maybe — the CIA and its political-hack director should be more focused on its mission than on watching ice melt, or freeze, depending on the time of year.

Quadrant Online - The Pachauri affair

Incredibly, Dr Pachauri is now a director of the International Risk Governance Council in Geneva, set up by two of Europe’s largest electricity producers. He has joined the New York Investment fund Pegasus as a ‘strategic advisor’ and he is chairman of the advisory board of the Asia Development Bank. His sphere of influence extends to being head of Yale University’s Climate and Energy Institute, Director of the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, and advisor to Toyota and policy advisor to SNCF, Frances state-owned railway.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Other suns may have spot cycles like our sun

Thousands of new variable stars are turning up, and Kepler’s extremely high-precision, near-continuous light curves offer rich material for new study. For instance, a third of the stars most similar to our Sun turn out to have tiny, short-term variabilities greater than the Sun’s. But not by much. And in time, we may be able to see the equivalent of our own star's sunspot cycle.

EU Referendum: It's still global warming

Thus, from a near 50-30 percent split yesterday, coal consumption has upped, giving an approximate 40-40 split, with coal currently the predominant fuel source. The greenies will perhaps be a little disconcerted that this global warming is er ... very bad for global warming, as they toast their little toes to the output of coal-fired power stations.

Wind output has crept up to a staggering 0.9 percent of production (0.7 percent on the 24 hours), increasing the load-factor to about seven percent. One thing for sure, the wind farmers will not be getting rich out of this cold snap. Wait for the weeping and gnashing of teeth as they demand more subsidies.