John M. Evjen: Show me the temperatures | Gainesville.com

It is rather chilling to think that major national and international resources are being expended to solve this global warming problem if, in fact, it is not caused by atmospheric CO2. This is a plea for more temperature measurement and information before the big chill starts.

John M. Evjen

Two snowmachiners rescued from deep snow in Alaska Range

FAIRBANKS -- Two snowmachiners who became stuck in deep snow near Summit Lake in the Alaska Range were airlifted to an Anchorage hospital early Sunday for unspecified cold-weather injuries.
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Greg Champlin, 37, and a snowmachiner whose identity is still being confirmed had reportedly become stuck in 2- to 3-feet of fresh snow in the Hoodoo Mountains about 180 miles south of Fairbanks.

Swans Commentary: Hollywood's Corporate Conservation Collaborators, by Michael Barker - barker14

For a critical analysis of the global tree-planting craze in the U.S., see Shaul Cohen, Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America (University of California Press, 2004). Cohen surmises that "One topic on which I have more overtly signaled my skepticism is the issue of global warming and the potential for carbon sequestration through planting trees. In part, this is because I am regularly struck by the abject simplification of the issue as it is presented to the public: plant trees, store carbon, slow global warming -- with the only concrete fact conveyed being that even a single tree is significant in this battle. Yet in the grand equation of emissions and sequestration, tree planting has been and will remain a relatively insignificant factor for two reasons. First, the number of trees that would have to be planted in order to significantly influence the growing accumulation of atmospheric carbon has not, will not, and probably could not be planted. Potential reforestation and afforestation for the entire planet would represent only 'about 2 percent of the annual global carbon uptake by the terrestrial biosphere.' And, despite the call for a massive increase in tree planting that came with the Kyoto Accords, carbon emissions have continued apace, as has tree planting -- that is, there has been no significant gain on the carbon sequestration front through tree planting.'"