Brazil's Parana State Coffee Farms Face Cold

SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's coffee growing region of Parana will see cold weather Tuesday night, with a slight risk of frost in some isolated cases, according to local weather service Somar Tuesday.

"Most coffee areas won't see frost, but it's a critical temperature and some isolated coffee areas may experience frost," a meteorologist at Somar told Dow Jones Newswires.

Hold climate bill until after summit: Turnbull - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"There is a better way to go about this, and that is to defer the consideration of the bill until the Copenhagen summit is concluded," he said.

Louisville City Hall Examiner: Obama wants you to paint your roof white

Folks in the south with the new white roofs will certainly get a break on their air-conditioning costs, and the dark-roof northerners will have to adjust to slightly higher fuel bills in the winter. But, since most of us will become union painters at $32.50 per hour, these fluctuations will be hardly noticeable.

As for us, we plan to invest what’s left of our 401-K in Ray-Ban stock; predictably, sunglasses will be selling soon at a premium.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

The Ocean Acidification Fiction

In light of these several diverse and independent assessments of the two major aspects of the ocean acidification hypothesis -- a CO2-induced decline in oceanic pH that leads to a concomitant decrease in coral growth rate -- it would appear that the catastrophe conjured up by the world's climate alarmists is but a wonderful work of fiction.