Some vineyards suffer while others thrive | MNN - Mother Nature Network

In Oregon, one of the newest wine regions, winemakers try to view climate change with a mix of caution and “giddy excitement,” says Kevin Chambers, owner of Resonance Vineyard, a biodynamic vineyard in the Willamette Valley. “Climate changes have improved our consistency, but we do need to think ahead. What should I plant now that will sustain warmer temperatures for the next 50 years?” Like Thompson, Chambers recognizes that global warming has contributed to his personal success even as it marginalizes wine quality in warmer areas.

CO2 - Love It: The Myth of Global Warming and Melting Icebergs

[John Brandt] My six months charting icebergs and ice fields in the north atlantic aboard the USCG cutter Mojave (I was radio opr) in 1945 is also important. I saw perhaps 50+ icebergs ranging in size from 25 feet to a half mile in diameter! The ice fields were sometimes 3 miles in diameter and consisted of pieces of ice with 2 to 4 feet sticking above the surface and all bunched together.

We would sail through the ice fields at 2 knots with the constant banging of the ice against the bow and sides of the cutter. The longitude/lattitude was passed to me in the radio shack, and I would send the locations of all by CW morse code to Navy in Argentia, Newfoundland. They in turn would broadcast the info to all commercial ships at sea from NY to England, etc.

All those ice fields and icebergs broke off the polar ice shelf. I was told by the old timers aboard ship, it happens every year.

Listening to Al Gore, one would believe it just happened for the first time ever!

I believe the story of global warming drummed up by Al Gore is plain “Manure".

Commentary: Is wind the next ethanol? | McClatchy

There's also reason to expect that wind's green status will evaporate. For one thing, the pending proposals would require tens of millions of acres of new wind farms, much of it on land currently in its natural state. Environmentalists already object to certain wind farm sites and transmission line routes, and their complaints would greatly multiply if wind power expands. Its claimed global-warming benefits could also come under attack.

As with ethanol, familiarity is likely to breed contempt for wind – and contempt for a government that foisted this predictable mistake on the American public.

Dana Perino on Obama's hatred of polar bears

Where are the breathless and indignant above-the-fold, page one newspaper stories?