Feb
“Hottest January ever” say climate experts, establishing a new comedy genre
The USA, the UK and many other parts of the world have been reporting cold weather records broken left, right and center. Yet some climate scientists are claiming, no, it’s been hot, damn hot, this winter.
Jan
Met Office staffer still says this will be “warmest winter in living memory”
“This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.”
Jan
Iquanas in the coal mine
More bad news coming from those “canaries in the coal mine,” as Al Gore would say. “Iguanas dropping from trees, manatees huddling around waters warmed by power plants and marine turtles being whisked away to shelters–Florida’s unusual cold snap is a deadly one for tropical wildlife.” So says Jaun Castro Olivera of AFP. Olivera reported: [...]