ABC Hobart - Cold snap hits growers

Lucy Greg from Fruit Growers Tasmania says apple and cherry crops in the Derwent and Huon Valleys appear hardest hit.

The owner of a Coal River Valley vineyard says they've lost the entire crop in the Derwent Valley.

Ms Gregg has told the ABC's Country Hour that while the severe frost has affected apple and cherries, frost protection measures have worked.
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Ross had what's believed to be an October record with the temperature dropping to minus 5.6.

Bravo, Robert Pittenger  - Charlotte Observer

Pittenger has drawn probably the most heat as the legislature's leading skeptic about global warming.

Serving on a legislative commission on climate change, Pittenger said the panel had a “pre-determined agenda,” and that he was seeking to bring a more balanced approach to the issue.

He said it doesn't make sense for the U.S. to “cripple our economy” with new environmental legislation while manufacturing competitors in China and India continue to operate their plants unfettered.

Environmentalists say Pittenger is arguing against prevailing scientific thinking.

“Sen. Pittenger is one of the last holdouts in echoing the message of the coal and oil industry, and actually going further to the right of those organizations, in objecting to the need to take any action on global climate change,” said Molly Diggins, state director of the Sierra Club.