Some people seem to think this winter’s snows prove that global warming is a bunch of hot air. They are wrong, the experts say. “That is totally a red herring,“ said Jerry Stenger, director of the University of Virginia’s climatology office. “That’s just silly,“ said Jim Kinter, a meteorologist and part-time George Mason University faculty member.

European Union leaders were facing tough talks Thursday about how much aid to offer developing nations to bring them into a new global climate change pact.

If the economic situation is not enough to keep you awake at night, perhaps this will: A new report suggests the global rise in sea levels might be considerably worse than first thought, because of changes in the polar ice sheets. The new estimates place the range of expected sea-level range in the neighborhood of one meter, or about three times as much as the average predicted by the U.N.‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The state Commission on Climate Change issued its first findings today about how global warming will affect Virginia. The commission found, among other things, that: