DOTmed.com - $200 "infant warmer" could save India's tiniest citizens

Priced at around $200, the heated nylon bag helps keep babies' body temperature from falling below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit and suffering from hypothermia, one of the leading causes of death and sickness for lightweight newborns.

Panic and fear close their icy tentacles round the doomed Met Office – Telegraph Blogs

So let’s get this right. We paid for 90 per cent of the Met office’s £30 million computer; we also fund a hefty chunk of its annual £170 million running costs. And now the Met office tells us that it is incapable of providing the effective long range forecasts we could get for a fraction of the price from Piers Corbyn or Joe Bastardi?

If this government were seriously minded to have its bonfire of the quangos, I think I know which useless outfit I’d be tossing onto the pyre next.

- Bishop Hill blog - Should we believe anything the Met Office says?

Interesting fact: the Chairman of the Met Office board, Robert Napier, is or has been:

* Chairman of the Green Fiscal Trust*
* Chairman of the trustees of the World Centre of Monitoring of Conservation
* a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project
* a director of the Carbon Group
* Chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund UK

What’s behind the cold spell in Europe?: Voice of Russia

Scientists may speak of global warming – but their words sound like a joke against a background of the current temperature fall in Europe. In Rome, frozen fountains resemble stalactites. Parisians, who are used to celebrating Christmas with green grass outdoors, now have a rare chance to enjoy snowball fights. Most European airports are now working irregularly. Moscow, after a series of snowstorms, is now expecting rather serious frosts.