India: Farmers in distress as frost damages crops in UP

Bijnor, Jan 13 (ANI): Frosty weather in many parts of North India has adversely affected several cash crops adding to the distress of farmers, many of whom have suffered crop losses almost up to thirty per cent.

Farmers in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh said that they had invested heavily in the potato crop, but the temperatures this winter plummeted below normal leading to frost which damaged the plants causing crop yield losses on a large scale.

American Thinker: Senate Republicans Need to Demand Re-Examination on Global Warming

The minority needs to press the nominees with serious determination. In March 2009 a second non-governmental forum will be held in New York, with world status scientists like Richard Lindzen of MIT and Willie Soon of Harvard presenting. The UN IPCC will hold its own conference later in March.

Senator Inhofe should challenge Lisa Jackson and the other nominees to attend or send official representatives to the Second Non-Governmental conference, as well as to the UN. He should ask Ms. Jackson to commit to engage with the minority on the committee. In the context of lowered temperatures and actual predictions of renewed short term cooling, surely they can defer for a year. If not, they will be handing the Republicans a winning issue in 2010, because they will have begun to disrupt American industry in the cause of suspect science that is quite likely to prove deficient.