Japan’s Record February Cold; Snow Returns To California; Hawaii Sees A Foot; Great Lakes Ice Keeps Expanding; Canada Back Below -50C; China’s Coal Output Breaks Records; + KNMI Erased Dutch Heatwaves

Scandinavia Shivers, Wind Turbines Freeze; Deepest Pyrenees Snowfall In Decades; Almost All Of Japan Under Snow; Antarctica At -52.5C; + Former IPCC Scientist: “The Climate Crisis Was Exaggerated”

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 Cap Allon10 Comments

Physicist Steven Koonin, former U.S. Department of Energy undersecretary and IPCC reviewer, says climate science was misrepresented to the public to justify policy.

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Japan’s Record February Cold; Snow Returns To California; Hawaii Sees A Foot; Great Lakes Ice Keeps Expanding; Canada Back Below -50C; China’s Coal Output Breaks Records; + KNMI Erased Dutch Heatwaves

Scandinavia Shivers, Wind Turbines Freeze; Deepest Pyrenees Snowfall In Decades; Almost All Of Japan Under Snow; Antarctica At -52.5C; + Former IPCC Scientist: “The Climate Crisis Was Exaggerated”

Lake Erie Nears First Full Freeze Of The Century; Japan Buried; CO2 Residence Myth Exposed; + Hunga’s Water Vapor Spike Fading Fast

Major Cold Surge To Hit China; Arctic Air Returns To US; Another SSW Builds; Hemisphere Cooling Spike; El Niño Watch; Satellite Surface Data Show No Warming; + Higher CO2 Has Boosted US Crop Yields

Cuba Records First-Ever Freeze; Eastern Europe Breaks Cold Records; Antarctica Below -50C; + Ocean Acidification Meets The Ocean’s Antacid

Florida’s February Freeze; Tropical Cold Records Shattered; Aomori Nears All-Time Snow Record; Canada’s Warming Claim Fails Data Check; + Cycle 25’s Most Active Sunspot

Aomori’s Heaviest Snowfall In 80 Years; Arctic Cold Reaches Florida; Europe Forecast Polar Plunge; Antarctica’s Deep Summer Freeze; + Massive Sunspot

Moscow Logs Snowiest January In 203 Years; Arctic Air To Grip The U.S.; + Another ‘Polar Vortex’ Forecast For February

Snow in Japan Turns Historic; Blizzard Hits China–Nepal Border; Antarctic Ice Traps Cruise Ship; Global Temperatures Are Falling; + ENSO Update

Snowiest January On Record In Anchorage; Record Snow Buries Japan, Paralyzes Transport; Deep Accumulations Across Northern India; U.S. Breaks 2,000+ Cold Records, And Counting; + Antarctic Transition