Don't miss this: Alaska: Drowning in the snows of Kotzebue

PHOTO ESSAY: Seth Kantner gives us a glimpse of the harsh winter in Kotzebue.

NCGA Forms Climate Task Force   Pork - Industry News

The National Corn Growers Association’s Ethanol Committee has established a task force of corn farmers to focus on climate issues. Topics such as land use, greenhouse gas emissions, cap-and-trade policies, carbon sequestration and low carbon fuel standards will be discussed.

Tire Business - Calif. to make psi checks mandatory

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (March 27, 2009)— California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) has adopted a regulation that will require California’s automotive maintenance industry to check the tire pressure of every vehicle they service, starting July 1, 2010.
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The ARB did not say specify what policies will be in effect to enforce the ruling except to say a violation of the proposed requirements “may result in civil or criminal penalties.”

Nobel-winning climate [scam] scientist speaks at Expo Center tonight – OregonLive.com

Schneider contributed to a 2007 global warming report issued by the United Nations that painted a near-apocalyptic vision of Earth's future: More than 1 billion people would be in desperate need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa, a blighted landscape ravaged by fires and floods, and millions of species sentenced to extinction.

"Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic, and it's a bad idea to be on a high mountain," Schneider told the media at the time.

Widely quoted on the latest climate research, Schneider speaks often of the challenge scientists face in explaining their ideas to the public.

"Nature is a perverse old girl, and she doesn't tell us how much (warming) is due to her and how much is due to us," said Schneider said in 2006. "So we look for fingerprints that you'd expect if the cause was humans rather than nature."