NY Frugal Family Examiner links to climate-skeptic.com

Or what if, even more dramatically, you believe the entire global warming hysteria is a tad exaggerated, that the science is speculative at best, and that sustainability is just the latest meaningless buzz-word that's going to cost the tax-payers a ton of money before anyone even figures out what they want it to mean.

If the SUV had never been invented, would there be no erosion in Alaska?

Stanley Tom is a conference delegate Tom said a river in his Alaskan hometown of Newtok has been eroding the earth under homes and has turned the tiny village into an island, and that other Alaskan villages were also facing erosion and flooding.

"The global warming is really strong," Tom said. "The whole village is sinking right now."

Tim Grobaty: We're expecting we had a nice Spring Break - Press-Telegram

WARMING WARNING: On a more somber subject, climate change - the opposite of carnivals - is the subject of Tuesday evening's book signing and lecture by Stephen Faris at the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Faris will speak about his latest book, "Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley." The author, who has written about the environment and the developing world for Time, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and others, says there is a growing concern that climate change is linked to an increase in violence in the world, which means we not only have to go switch over to energy-saving lightbulbs, we have to have world peace, too.