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CONCORD, Mass. -- Dozens of brave New Englanders took the polar bear plunge on Saturday to raise awareness on global climate change.

Activists dove into the icy Walden Pond shouting demands for action to stop the advance of global warming.

Wind Watch: Attica wind farm out; lacked key factor: wind

First Wind, the developer of the Steel Winds wind-power project in Lackawanna, has shelved a wind farm in Attica because of a lack of wind and has postponed a similar project in Prattsburgh because of the economy.

Emma Tom: Apply anti-sceptic | The Australian

No, the thing that's so irksome about hardline climate change sceptics is that the planet will need to be twitching and coughing up blood before they'll agree to do anything. And while it's always enormously gratifying to be proved right, even the narkiest greenie is unlikely to gain much pleasure from screeching "I told you so" as the last of the polar ice caps fizzes sadly into the sea like a stale Berocca.

Bio » Emma Tom

ET is a casual lecturer in media at several Sydney universities, and can be seen and heard regularly on Australian TV and radio. She served on the Advertising Standards Board from 2003 to 2009, is the author of six books and has performed throughout Australian in an assortment of rock bands. On top of all this stuff, Miss T has worked as a babysitter, waitress, barmaid, dating agency pamphlet hander-outerer, hearse driver, and ghost and history tour guide (she has an actual bus licence).