Ice cutting efforts expected to start today | Michigan

Witham said this is the worst the ice has been since the 1980s. He said it is due to long stretches of cold weather.

Skeptical Science blogger on how the climate sceptic iPhone app came about | John Cook | Environment | guardian.co.uk

...personal attacks don't change the fact that ice sheets are shrinking, sea level is rising, glaciers are retreating and many other physical realities of global warming are manifesting themselves before our eyes. It's imperative that the climate debate focuses on science.
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Meanwhile, Shine Technologies are already working on the next version. The launch version has a report function that lets users tell us when they've encountered a sceptic argument. This gives us an insight into which sceptic arguments are most popular. As time and location are also stored, this provides intriguing possibilities for creating "heat maps" (pardon the pun) of sceptic activity.

Global warming worst case = Only slight misery increase • The Register

Agricultural brainboxes at Stanford University say that global warming isn't likely to seriously affect poor people in developing nations, who make up so much of the human race. Under some scenarios, poor farmers "could be lifted out of poverty quite considerably," according to new research.

- Harsh winters freezes sales on UK high street

The recent bout of harsh winter weather gripping the UK had a "significant impact" on retail sales in January, according to the latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

EU Referendum: The hidden propaganda

Another EU venture into schools, for instance, is a project called CARBOSCHOOLS+, linking carbon science laboratories with secondary schools to develop partnerships where "young Europeans" learn and conduct experiments about climate research and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. As opposed to the roughly €250,000 spent on the comic book venture, €1.43 million is being poured into this, with €981,553 coming from the EU.

Evidence that Al Gore does not believe in the sea-level rise he preaches

Below are two real-estate advertisements. Would Gore invest in a seaside property if he thought the sea was going to rise and swamp him?