Recycled fur and a touch of silk spice up a cold-weather classic - INSIDE JoongAng Daily

Aimee Cho, a 32-year-old fashion designer based in New York, believes the trench coat has became a four-season item. Thanks to global warming, fewer people wear thick woolen coats during the winter, Cho said.

LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF COLORADO BLOG: Fart Tax coming soon, and I am not pulling your leg (or finger!)

The real question is what is the goal of this tax? It is a punishment tax, so is the goal to punish farmers? Or is it to punish people who eat meat? How are they going to measure if the tax was a success? Will the government charge themselves for the herds of elk and buffalo in national parks? This whole idea seems really wacky, especially to those of us who are not convinced that global warming is a threat, or that it is man made.

Even if you believe in man made global warming and believe that a sin tax on emissions is a good idea, can emissions from a cow or a pig be considered man made? Can someone who believes this tax is a good idea explain why?

Commodity costs expected to soar from climate change

After the global economic meltdown, extreme weather events rooted on climate change will drive up costs of certain commodities including oil and rice, endangering the bottom lines of companies and the pockets of millions of consumers by 2018, according to a publication recently released by international think tank A.T. Kearney Inc.