Siberian cold front hits roads, airport of N China « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

BEIJING, Dec. 4 — About 3,400 people were left stranded on snowbound expressways in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as an intense cold front began to take its toll.

Greg Nickels enjoys being Seattle mayor, will run again

The 20-cent plastic bag fee, one of the mayor's "green" initiative, is designed to force a "change of habit," Nickels acknowledged. "With global warming, we are going to change habits ... If we're not, we will sentence our kids and grandkids to a different planet."