Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Project in Wallula Could Help Prevent Climate Change - KNDU-TV- msnbc.com

While scientists plan to inject nearly 1,000 tons of CO2, into the well they're drilling at the Boise Paper mill in Wallula, compared to other natural gas plants in the country, it's a small amount.
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A project that could also help the wine industry in the future.

"For every 70,000 cases of wine, we're emitting back to the atmosphere about 1,000 tons of CO2, the wine industry could actually get a revenue stream back for capturing and sequestrating that CO2," said McGrail.

Cold weather costing city

The weather is not just an annoyance. It has become costly for the City of Crawfordsville.

Tom Mitchell, Superintendent of Storm and Wastewater Treatment, told members of the Board of Works and Public Safety that cold weather has taken its toll on several pieces of equipment.

Global Warming is Over. Category: Reader Commentaries from The Berkeley Daily Planet

It’s barely three years since Al Gore put global warming on the map with his video, An Inconvenient Truth. Global warming was barely on the public radar before then. Recent events show that we have made significant progress on the issue. Despite the despair in much of the media, echoed in the pages and on the web screens of the Planet, it’s very clear that due to concerted effort both nationally and worldwide, we’ve turned the corner on global warming and are now moving the other way.

Bitter cold in the Bay Area in mid-December, snow in New Orleans where formerly there were hurricanes, paralyzing cold and snow in Portland, Seattle and across the Midwest to Vermont and New York, airplanes skidding off icy runways at many airports! We have turned from global warming to global cooling with a vengeance. The cold-induced drought in California in the past two years is also a clue; we are in a cold dry “La Niña” instead of a warm wet “El Niño.” Cold and snow in China earlier in the year also indicate a new cooling. After many storms in 2004 and 2005, the last three hurricane seasons have fizzled and the danger is past. Even sea level rise has stabilized. The people of the Earth should be proud.
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Steve Tabor is an environmental and political activist residing in Alameda.

VOA News - International Agencies Urge Private Investment in Climate Change

The Bangkok conference Thursday brings together more than 200 delegates from Europe and the Asia-Pacific to discuss investment and risk opportunities for businesses associated with climate change.

Cold Weather Brings Manatees To Blue Spring State Park - Central Florida News 13

ORANGE CITY -- A record number of 227 manatees have made their way to Blue Spring State Park in search of warmer waters.
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Manatees flock to the spring during cold days because water temperatures in the spring are a constant 72 degrees.

"This is the big night" -  Tampa

'Tuesday night's cold weather was brutal,' he said early Thursday morning. 'But this is the big night.'

Mennie never went to bed Wednesday night.

Thursday morning, he used tarps and sprinklers to keep the fruit trees and flowers from freezing. Many of the most delicate plants, such as tropical flowers and Christmas palms, went into Mennie's double-wide trailer.
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As of 4 a.m., Mennie said it was 22 degrees at Jack and Jill Nursery.