Snow flying in Alberta: [Cheer up - At least the days will still be getting longer for a few more weeks]

EDMONTON - Flowers and shrubs wilted under wet snow Tuesday in Alberta as the temperature in the provincial capital at one point hovered around freezing - just one degree warmer than the Arctic community of Iqaluit.

It was another bleak day after most of the Prairies shivered through a miserable long weekend.

McCain Abruptly Flips On Climate Change Legislation

Sen. John McCain now appears to oppose climate-change legislation, an abrupt switch that could seriously threaten any movement on such a bill.

"Nearly 1000 page Climate Change legislation -- appears to be a cap & tax bill that I won't support," McCain wrote in a Twitter message Monday, a reversal of the position he took on the Senate floor in March.
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"Let me just say to my colleagues, I'm proud of my record on climate change," McCain said in March. "I've been all over the world and I've seen climate change, and I know it's real, and I'll be glad to continue this debate with my colleagues and people who don't agree with that."

Scrapbook: Report from the 1st EPA Global Warming Endangerment Hearing

I had the pleasure of attending much of yesterday's first public hearing from the Environmental Protection Agency on its global warming endangerment finding. This hearing was held at the EPA office in Arlington, VA, and featured a great crowd of people who want the EPA to do the right thing and regulate global warming pollution.

While I only saw the speakers from the hearing's start at 9am until noon, it featured a good variety of people from all types of backgrounds. There were many activists and staffers from the Sierra Club, as well as from many other environmental organizations. There were state environmental employees, faith leaders, business leaders, professors, scientists, doctors, and more - almost all of which were on our side.