The Daily Torygraph story that Iain mentions below notes that natural temperature variations are responsible for the long winter holiday AGW is planning. So what are these “natural variations” that thwart humanity’s best efforts to boil the seas and melt the skies?

Well, La Niña for one — El Niño’s frigid sister. Anthony Watts noted on Tuesday that NASA had confirmed that the Pacific Ocean had shifted to a cooling phase, one that will shorten the California growing season and increase the chances of crop-threatening frost. (Sorry, oenophiles.)