On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2011/01/coal-takes-the-strainagain.shtml

Good piece by BBC weather presenter

In case anyone missed it...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xhz90/Horizon_20102011_What_is_One_Degree/

The US Supreme Court has chucked out a suit trying to claim damages against industry for global warming.

U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Bogus Global Warming Case

Newsnight looks at the eco terrorist plot to shut down Ratcliffe power station and the bungled police effort to arrest them, tonight.

I've put the updated watts up article here.
http://www.realclimategate.org/2011/01/the-met-office-secret-predictions-and-the-political-implications/

Record Heat Hit Northeast U.S. in 2010

Five cities in the northeastern United States broke their own record of all-time hottest year in 2010, according to a report out Wednesday (Jan. 5).
For Boston, 2010 had the highest average temperature since records began being kept in 1872, when The Great Fire almost wiped the city off the map. The other four cities were: Providence, R.I.; Hartford, Conn.; Concord, N.H.; and Caribou, Maine.
The findings come from statistics released by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
The researchers looked at temperature data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at various sites in cities across the northeastern United States.

Data collected in cities by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seems to say it all really. I don’t suppose they thought about comparing the recorded temperatures in more rural locations around those record breaking cities just for a balanced approach.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/record-heat-northeast-cities-2010-110106.html

I have a guest post at Watts Up.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/09/the-met-office-secret-prediction-and-the-political-implications/#comments

There was a bit of a cock up (most probably by me) as the wrong article got published before I'd finished it! Details in the comments, and I've added a missing bit about Boris in the comments (Anthony is no doubt in bed by now, so any further corections will have to wait.)

Let them eat bugs!

Scientists urge switch from meat to insect diet to save on greenhouse gases - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014445

A leading professor and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has proposed that nations need to end democracy in order to solve the theory of man made climate change.

David Shearman, an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences and Law School, has authored several books on climate change, one entitled The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. In this he declares that “…authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity”.

Professor Shearman was an Assessor for the UN’s IPCC 3rd and 4th Assessment Reports.

http://wideshut.co.uk/end-democracy-to-save-planet-says-ipcc/

Piers Corbyn on the MET Office forecasting/hindcasting method "this is bullshit, these people are not to be trusted with anything"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPMmCruPAWU&feature=player_embedded