Further Quakes but tsunami alert downgraded.

7.3 mag Earthquake in Pacific ocean

1,000 miles ENE Brisbane Tsunami alert issued

Exam board accused of 'brainwashing' pupils with inaccurate climate graph
Britain’s largest exam board has been accused of “brainwashing” pupils by forcing them to use an inaccurate temperature graph that exaggerates the scale of global warming.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8210501/Exam-board-accused-of-brainwashing-pupils-with-inaccurate-climate-graph.html

Clever animated cartoon on Youtube (via Andrew Bolt blog)

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/all_you_need_to_know/

Paul Hudson shows the MET winter forecast that they say was passed to the government.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2011/01/the-met-office-winter-forecast.shtml

On the hot toddies tonight to ease a head cold but this tickled me to the core:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/edguide/accuracy/

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Anyone who needs cheering up can follow the escapades of a BBC experiment.

'So, in what is arguably an unfair test of a car designed mostly for short-distance motoring, the BBC decided to try to drive an electric Mini the 484 miles (778km) from London to Edinburgh.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12138420

It is, unexpectedly, honest reporting and is totally winding the greens up on the comments page.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/01/electric_car_challenge.html#comments

News is never dull: keep an eye on the rescue of here:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-local-difficulty.html

and then remind yourself how sea surface temperatures are shaping up this year
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
(Choose Sea Surface in the temperature dropdown and then redraw the graph.)

And the MET get laid into again.

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/01/10/lawrence-solomon-when-wwf-is-put-in-charge-of-the-weather/

BBC serve Govt with FOI about Met Office Cold Winter warning.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/worrying.html

Interesting.

Can't imagine the BBC taking anything other than an anti-Govt/pro-MET office line on this. But could spell trouble for Chris Huhne though if it turns out his office was the one issuing the 'gag'.