International Falls gets record snow this winter

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - International Falls has recorded its snowiest winter on record.

The National Weather Service says the border city has recorded 124.2 inches of snow this winter. That tops the old record of 116 inches set in 1995-1996.

Oil not to blame for climate change: OPEC | Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - OPEC said oil was not to blame for climate change and consuming countries should pay to fight the threat, while the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell said drivers could help by not buying Hummer sports utility vehicles.

"Oil is not responsible," the producer group's Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri, told reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of the International Oil Summit in Paris.

"It is the industrialized countries which are making all this pollution in the world."

Scientists say the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, is a key factor in climate change.

Mommy Life: Global warming hoax, globalism, New World Order

This is a great British analysis of the global warming hoax, including charges by scientists that the media has distorted the scientific community's response, warnings of GW propaganda being used to further the new World Order, and an unequivocal denouncement by the original founder of Greenpeace.

Mich. senators vote to extend debate on climate change | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan were among them. Levin was one of more than two dozen senators (Republicans and Democrats) who signed a letter saying they believed the climate change bill and its biggest component – a cap-and-trade system of auctioning off pollution emission permits for industry – was too important and far-reaching (especially in the industrial Midwest) not to undergo substantial debate.