UK: Schools forced to close after big freeze causes havoc - Press & Journal

Sub-zero temperatures played havoc with plumbing and heating systems in schools across the Highlands on the day pupils went back after the Christmas holidays.

Hundreds of youngsters were given an extra day’s holiday when staff returned to work to find water flooding from ruptured plumbing.

The Highlands was worst hit, with 15 primary schools affected, while local authorities in Moray, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen city each reported one school closure.

Australia: Weather cover for crops eyed instead of aid

WAFarmers spokesman Derek Clauson said severe frost damage across the Wheatbelt and unseasonal summer storms, which wrecked southern crops, strengthened calls for the scheme.
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Narembeen farmer Brendan Hickey said spring frosts had devastated some farmers in the area. His family had expected good yields for wheat and barley until frost “obliterated” much of their crop.

Is Evolution Over?: Climate change denial

What’s more, it is an issue of such fundamental importance! If we do nothing, the world could become uninhabitable, our species and many others could well die out. It’s amazing how people consider finding a cure for cancer more important than solving the problem of climate change, but in reality which is the bigger threat? Even if humanity isn’t a major cause of climate change, surely it is in our best interests to try and reduce its effects! So I’m not sure how to handle this. Should climate change denial be on the same kind of level as Holocaust denial? Certainly the consequences of each are of similar threat levels, one just appears more immediate than the other.