Thursday, May 28, 2009

Law.com - Questions About Long Delay by Sotomayor-Led Panel in Climate Case
A major climate change lawsuit brought by eight states against five utilities has been pending decision for nearly three years before an appellate panel on which Sotomayor is the presiding judge.

"No one knows why the case has never been decided," said David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center.
Sounds like typical modeling baloney to me: Global warming may hike respiratory ills - UPI.com
NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. health researchers say projected global warming will result in more children with respiratory ills.

In one scenario, researchers Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City project respiratory hospitalizations for children under age 2 will rise between 4 percent and 7 percent by 2020 because of increased air pollution.
New Zealand: Queen's Birthday Weekend chill forecast - Newstalk ZB
A Queen's Birthday Weekend polar blast is set to end autumn on a wintry note.

Weatherwatch.co.nz analyst Philip Duncan says it will be even colder than the bitter Antarctic blast that swept through last week.
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"We haven't seen snow this deep at the ski area since probably about 1995. So if May's snow is anything to go by, we're setting up for a real record breaker."

1 comment:

gofer said...

Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people's lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

--CNN