Well, Duh, Do You Think? -- Not a Bakken Story

The country leading the charge on global warming is rethinking the "what-if"?

Britain's Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said he had asked the government's chief scientific adviser to assess whether the country was experiencing a "step change" in weather patterns due to climate change and if it needed to spend more money on winter preparations.

Britain traditionally experiences mild winters, but last year's was the coldest for 30 years and this December is likely to be its coldest since 1910.

Here's the link.

The Brits can now go back to open-air ice skating.