And the 2010 Citizen Kane award for non-excellence in climate journalism goes to … « Climate Progress

2. WattsUpWithThat — Anthony Watts does more than any person in the blogosphere to spread anti-scientific disinformation.

The hidden result of Cancun: dictators get more gas-guzzling cars and private jets – Telegraph Blogs

Here’s the truest point I’ve heard a politician make about the Cancun global warming conference. UKIP’s Paul Nuttall mockingly congratulates fellow European politicians – just back from the conference – on ensuring that dictators will get more Mercedes cars and private jets.

Transport chaos not an annual issue, say official report

The row over the need for a multimillion-pound investment in snowploughs, de-icing equipment and salt stocks deepened this morning with the publication of a government-backed report using Met Office predictions that successive hard winters are rare.

Global Warming Policies and the Perverse Incentives They Create | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Money is a powerful incentive. When it comes to global warming, governments all over the world have created policies that intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but have led to fraud, scams, black markets, and increased emissions. Mark Schapiro of Reuters reports on the unintended consequences of European companies offsetting their carbon dioxide emissions by paying the Chinese to destroy a much more potent contributor to warming:

Freezing temperatures threaten UK coastal birds

The system of alert, which is monitored by the British Association of Shooting and Conservation and involves a number of statutory agencies and nongovernmental organizations, was established in 1983 after severe cold weather led to large numbers of bird deaths.

Unusually large numbers of barn owls have also been found dead, with 31 dead owls reported to the BTO in one week. Cold weather and difficulty finding small mammals due to snow cover and low temperatures was to blame.