Was reported yesterday on FoxNews but hadn’t showed up on the website, found this article which may have been the source.

Global warming sceptics are pointing to recent record cold temperatures in parts of North America and Asia and the return of Arctic Sea ice to suggest fears about climate change may be overblown.

According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th century mean (-0.02°F/-0.01°C) for the first time since 1982.

Temperatures were also colder than average across large swathes of central Asia, the Middle East, the western US, western Alaska and southeastern China.

Read the whole thing, fascinating. Been colder here overall too although today is a balmy 75° out. Friend says it is global warming causing the temperature extremes. I think the sun has something to do with it not the activities of man.

Unexpected especially since Russia is less than delighted at our support for the breakaway Kosovo, this.

Russia warned Iran on Wednesday that it would back further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program unless Tehran halted uranium enrichment in the next few days.

That’s nice of Russia but it’s so not happening, first Iran will continue enrichment.

Iran’s U.N. ambassador said his nation would not comply with a new sanctions resolution and considered any demand that it suspend uranium enrichment illegal.

And seeing that Libya, on the Security Council, why I am clueless, won’t go along with sanctions, it’s not a done deal.

“Really we cannot be supportive of further sanctions,” Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations, Giadalla Ettalhi, told reporters as he went into a Security Council meeting on unrelated issues in New York.

Asked if Libya would vote “no” if the resolution went to a vote unchanged, Ettalhi said, “I think so.”

Doesn’t a vote have to be unanimous? Anyway, I don’t expect much. And then there’s China. They are unlikely to back sanctions either.