Colorado: Harvest isn't looking very peachy for Grand Valley growers

The Grand Valley’s peach crop struggled through some bitter blasts as March came to a close, and growers were worried a frost Wednesday night and this morning could deal a bitter punch to their beleaguered crops.

Temperatures were expected to tumble as low as 22 degrees, posing more risk to a fruit crop that already has seen apricots and cherries reeling from nature’s coldest of shoulders.

Even growers who dodged the frozen bullet today still have to see their buds through the rest of April, fruit growers noted.

First outbreak of chilblains in Bhutan

2 April, 2009 - About 140 boarding students of Tang, Chumey, and Ura schools are infected with, what doctors call, the ‘chilblains’ disease, leading to swollen fingers and toes and distracting students from their studies. Doctors say this is a first in the country.

Chilblains, doctors say, is a winter-borne disease, caused by poor circulation of blood in the body’s extremities, affecting especially the toes and fingers. The cold constricts the flow of blood to the toes or fingers, says Bumthang doctor Nima Wangchuk. He said that the continuous drizzling and cold weather in the dzongkhag over the past weeks caused the disease.

Bravo, Digital Rich: Why I Don’t Care About Global Warming

For those most worried and active in the fight to stop manmade global warming, we find something important under the surface. A need to matter. A need for purpose. A desire to “do something.” Those things are noble and good when applied to the REAL WORLD. Really now, who is AGAINST clean water, or clean air, or fair housing, or … name your cause.

But for the rest of us- and this is what really drives some people nuts- we DO have purpose.