Richard Lindzen to speak - SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

ENVIRONMENT. "Global Warming: What is it All About?" Wednesday, Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m., Hamilton-Wenham Public Library, 14 Union St. With Richard S. Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences at MIT. For more information, call the library at 978-468-5577 or visit www.hwlibrary.org.

Metro - Farmer's Almanac calls for a bitter winter

December is predicted to be a very cold month, with temperatures expected to be about five degrees below normal. In fact, for the dates of December 23 to 25, the words “snowstorm” and “very cold” are both used.

If cold’s not your thing, there’s more bad news. The Almanac has forecasts through to next October, and is predicting temperatures in Atlantic Canada to be one or two degrees below normal in the summer of 2009.

“We’re actually predicting a cooling trend over the next two decades, which is kind of running counter to global warming,” Trowbridge said.