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Frozen field conditions in northern Corn Belt: Northern Midwest corn states Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin still have frozen fields that may hinder corn planting efforts in late April and early May. March temperatures were 3-4ºF colder than normal, averaging 30-35ºF in a band across the Upper Midwest. Strong sunshine and warming temperatures are required to get the frost out. A stubborn cold weather pattern is in effect that will keep temperatures well below normal. Highs in the next several days will be only mid to upper 30's, while freezes occur at night.

Climate and people first | Greenpeace International

In the long term, we don’t face a choice of green jobs or dirty jobs, but green jobs or ecological and social collapse. Until climate change is at the top of the G20 communiqué and at the centre of their thinking, they aren’t just scientifically illiterate, but economically illiterate.

Science shows climate change is accelerating. A full-blown climate crisis raises the prospect of mass migration, mass starvation and mass extinctions. It will make poverty permanent in the developing world and strangle growth in the developed.

On European Trip, Rock-Star Obama Faces Skeptical Allies | In an effort to please foreigners, should we buy into the greatest scientific fraud of all time?

They sense, rather, a growing cooperation on a wide range of international issues – global warming is often cited as Exhibit A – based on increasingly like-minded thinking.