Saskatchewan: Wet weather hampers provincial harvest

Current yield estimates continue to point to above-average provincial production for 2008. But the cool, wet weather has had a negative effect on crop quality, with reporters citing damage from staining, bleaching, sprouting and lodging.

"We're already starting to hear reports of sprouting," Bedard said. "We're hearing some reports of frost." She said farmers need at least three weeks of normal or above-normal temperatures and little or no rain to get the remaining three-quarters of the crop in the bin.

Palin's climate scepticism

However, David Sandretti, spokesman for the League of Conservation Voters, said that McCain's position on global warming is becoming more aligned with Palin's. "It seems to me that it's no longer a position he's embracing," he said, arguing that McCain has been stepping back from the climate change issue. "He never talks about global warming any more. During the primary he was much more vocal. "

Climate change article prompts heated debate - Belfast Today

In a post entitled Sammy Wilson tells it like it is, prominent Conservative blogger Iain Dale hailed Mr Wilson's public attack on the view that humans are responsible for damaging climate change.

Former UK Unionist member David Vance, a climate change sceptic, wrote in his blog: "Great to see that Northern Ireland's Environment Minister, Sammy Wilson, has provoked the wrath of the Gaia worshippers in an article on climate change he has penned in The News Letter."