Snow pounds region, heading towards record | Great Falls, Montana

New snowfall records for this date are likely as a storm pummels the region, said Michael Mercer of the National Weather Service.

At about 11:30 this morning, about 4 inches of snow had fallen at the National Weather Service's Great Falls office. With heavy snow expected throughout the afternoon and evening, the old record of 7.7 inches of snow in Great Falls on this date will probably be broken, Mercer said. That record was set April 28, 1970.

Great Falls could see a foot of snow in the next 24 hours, with precipitation tapering off Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning, Mercer said.

YouTube - Not Evil Just Wrong Forum

Producer Phelim McAleer comments about the farce of global warming and other environmental activism which has caused unnecessary hysteria through out the world.

Business - Climate change to cut rice output–ADB - INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines—Rice production in the country is forecast to fall by three-fourths from current levels in 10 years if nothing is done to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.

Feb '08: Philippines Rice Production Up 5.96% Last Year

According to a latest report submitted by the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), total rice production in Philippines recorded an increase of 5.96 % to reach 16.24 million MT in 2007.

Spokesman.com | April chill, showers continue today | Apr 28, 2009

Temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below normal for late April are keeping a spring chill in the air today, and chance of snow showers on the valley floors in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas is possible tonight, forecasters said.

The Crushing Weight of My Predictive Powers - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The Obama administration is softening up its European counterparts to accept the fact that he will not sign up to Kyoto II at Copenhagen; apologists insist that this really, really is rather different than his GOP predecessor — whose stance (somehow) was also really, really quite different from his Democratic predecessor — and are falling over themselves to explain it away. The important role that Congress plays in all of this has been rediscovered (after eight long years of being the Republican executive's doing). And — oh by the way — the administration is plotting a Plan B of circumventing the Constitution's treaty requirement by simply waving a wand and declaring Kyoto II to be not a treaty but an executive agreement (misstated as "executive order" in the piece).

Obama Orders Review of New York Flight as Cost Put at $328,835 - Bloomberg.com

The flight by the VC-25, a modified Boeing Co. 747, and two F-16 fighter jets cost $328,835, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said.

Three-Hour Mission

That includes $300,658 for the larger plane, which flew a three-hour mission, and about $28,178 for the F-16 jets, which flew 1.8 hours each, Stein said in an e-mailed statement.

The total includes fuel used in flight, fuel used to power ground equipment used to prepare the aircraft, and ground maintenance, Stein said.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday’s flyover was “two training missions that became in the end a picture mission” and only Air Force personnel were aboard.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Cost-Free Cap and Trade

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) adds to a long series of comments by Democrats that emphasize cost as a crucial criterion for evaluating cap and trade legislation, and specifically, that there should be no costs...
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Of course, cost-free cap and trade defeats the purpose of cap and trade which is to raise the costs of energy, as explained to Congress by Robert Greenstein, of the non-profit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

No Impact Man: A list of companies who supported [debunking] lies about global warming?

A working democracy requires a correctly informed electorate. Deliberately lying to the public is a direct assault on the American system of democracy. To use power and money to lie to the American public is to distort our electoral process.