White Roofs in Urban Heat Islands a Cool Idea

Akbari, along with Surabi Menon, another LBNL scientist, and Arthur Rosenfeld, a former LBNL scientist and now a California Energy Commission board member, claim that painting urban surfaces in warm parts of the world white or a light color could offset the carbon emissions of all 600 million of the world's cars for 18 to 20 years — at a savings equivalent to at least $1 trillion worth of CO2 reductions.

Washington Times - Obama proposals cap growth

Senate Democratic leaders do not have the 60 votes to bring cap-and-trade to an up-or-down vote. And even if they had 60 members of their party in the Senate, they would lose many, if not most, Midwestern and Gulf-state Democrats who fear that former Vice President Al Gore's so-called climate-change tax scheme on all carbon emissions would be the death knell of their states' oil- and gas-powered economies.

Four Sea Turtles Rehabilitated and Released into the Wild|ABC News 4

It has been a long ride for Godfrey, Lookout, Carter and Emerald. The two loggerhead and green sea turtles almost died during a cold snap in the waters off the North Carolina coast.

“They were very lethargic and their bodies shut down,” Kelly Thorbalson, the Program Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Rescue Program at the Aquarium said.

Missouri: Gardeners prepare for freeze expected tonight

Master gardener Shelley Vaugine of Springfield talked of the same freeze after she finished covering her crops with straw earlier this afternoon. “It was two years ago when we had that frost,” she said, noting it caused a great deal of damage to crops.

Vaugine fears this hard freeze will net similar results. “This is going to be a bad one,” she said. “This is going to be pretty severe for a couple of days.”