From the state that Hillary Clinton represents: Record low for the North Country

PLATTSBURGH — Wondering just how cold it was early Friday?

Well, it busted a record low that had held since 1957.
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The bitter cold caused cancellation of classes at Saranac Central School.

"Most of the buses wouldn't start," said Linda Tedford, who is secretary to the superintendent.

"Some of them started, but they wouldn't stay running. We didn't want to put the kids on them."

Global cooling leaves U.N. with snow on its face

I don't view my children as "environmental disasters." You and I, and all our children have as much right to this planet's resources as beavers, spotted owls, and the "developing" world. And I am certainly not willing to cripple what's left of American industry, double my gasoline and electricity costs, and pay a tax on the carbon dioxide I exhale every day on the basis of a demonstrably fraudulent myth called global warming.

Keister is a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Specialist and an 18-year veteran of the New York State Police. He lives in the Town of Binghamton.

Fifteen thousand people to take fossil-fueled trips to Abu Dhabi to discuss using less fossil fuel

CANBERRA—Governor-General Quentin Bryce is jetting to the Middle East to address a major conference on renewable energy.

Ms Bryce will speak on Australia's efforts to develop clean energy at the World Future Energy Summit, in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

Fifteen thousand people are expected to attend the summit in the oil-rich emirate, which borders on the Persian Gulf.
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Ms Bryce will rub shoulders with British climate adviser Lord Stern, former British prime minister Tony Blair and Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It's time to get past alleged 'urgency denial'

In 2008, the media and the public finally acknowledged that climate change is a serious problem, but now "urgency denial" is setting in. The gap between scientific and public understanding of the central aspects of the crisis actually widened last year. A Gallup poll showed that fewer Americans, 37 percent, were concerned about climate change than in 2007.

This is largely due to a lack of U.S. news coverage of a series of alarming scientific reports that support the argument by NASA expert James Hansen that, "We are running out of time" for correcting this accelerating planetary emergency.
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Rep. Ed Markey, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said, "There is no safe haven. There is no place you can live that won't suffer the consequences of global warming.… People have been watching huge floods, droughts, storms that are otherwise unaccountable and historic in their nature."