Philippines: Cold spell hits vegetables of Nueva Vizcaya farmers

Vegetable farmers in Nueva Vizcaya are getting hit by the current cold spell.

Before, Mang Adriano said he can harvest more than 2,000 kilos of vegetables from his one-hectare land in Sitio Lingay in Barangay Bonfal. Because of the cold spell these past few weeks however, he said he is only able to harvest half of that.

He said that his eggplants, which are in their flowering stage, died because of the cold weather while the leaves of the ampalayas that he planted last December also withered. “It this weather continues, we will really get affected badly,” said Adriano.

Another vegetable farmer is also complaining.

David Almerol said he might not be able to recover his expenses. He said he is only able to harvest 100 kilos of vegetable from his farm, where before his production is more than 400 kilos.

Of 192 UN countries, why did only 23 send representatives?

15 January 2009: In a speech delivered at the Ministerial Conference on Global Environment and Energy in Transport, which took place in Tokyo, Japan, from 14-16 January 2009, Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, stressed that a global deal on transport and climate change should be an integral part of the UNFCCC process.

He underlined that the meeting provided an “ideal forum for building consensus among the 23 countries represented,” and noted that the sector will undoubtedly come under intense pressure and will have to “dramatically change direction."

No Promises We Won't Go Dark - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

My caution at the time was that the greens have long mouthed the same things they told him—about anything they know you want and they don’t—when trying to get you to agree to their particular agenda, only to then dedicate every fiber of their being to blocking that which they assured you “has an important role” from attaining said important role. To wit, nuclear power. Now, many of the greens say the same thing about carbon capture and storage, and most anything that would allow us to use our most abundant resources.

Still, as a colleague of mine recently noted about Interior Secretary-designate Ken Salazar (but applicable to this discussion), they support oil shale, nuclear, coal . . . just ask them . . . but they can’t find their way to support any particular shale, coal, or nuclear project.

Saskatchewan poll: as usual, global warming hysteria utterly fails to resonate with the public

The poll found that 34.8 per cent of respondents felt the economy/recession was the most import issue facing Saskatchewan. Other top concerns included: health care (10.9%), jobs/unemployment (7.7%), housing/affordable housing (6.2%), plus environment/climate change (3.2%).

The video says the petition contained about 42,500 names, so they must have used a real big font - Mile Long Petition

Five anti-coal coalition partners joined to gather enough signatures to present a mile long petition to the Dominion Virginia Power company encouraging them to stop their plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia and invest in alternative sources of energy instead.

Wouldn't it have been more environmentally friendly to deliver this electronically, rather than printing the whole thing out?

Open notebook: Tips for reporters on the coming climate wars :: CEJournal

Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in my open notebook project. (The previous posting was a Q&A with Roger Pielke, Jr.) As I mentioned in my first post, I’ve been commissioned to write about the future of the climate change story. As I do my reporting, I will post updates about my interviews, and whenever possible, some multimedia content. The idea is to share my reporting process as I go along. If you have any thoughts about what’s important here, and what I ought to emphasize in my story, please leave me a comment.
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For scientists, the focus in coming years will be on identifying the thresholds of danger as quickly as possible, so politicians can decide what risks are acceptable. Schneider said that won’t be solved any time soon, “but we will be working our butts off on it.”