Frost, freeze warnings issued for Northland | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

The trend so far in June, and for the foreseeable future, continues a very cold and slow-starting spring across the Northland, evidenced by late-sprouting trees and plants.

The Climate Prediction Center is forecasting below-normal temperatures through at least mid-June for much of the northern U.S.

“You guys have been cold even by northern Minnesota standards,” said Pete Boulay, assistant state climatologist.

Switzerland | Harsh winter chills construction sector

The extreme winter weather took its toll on construction. Numbers show that the first quarter’s turnover in the industry was down by more than 13 percent from the previous year. The Swiss Society of Entrepreneurs says it’s not lack of demand that’s caused the drop, but the ‘long, harsh winter’.

YouTube - Some Cool Climate Policies: No Regret Responses to Global Warming

Global warming is a reality. But whether it is a serious problem — and whether emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from human fossil fuel use are the principal cause — are uncertain. The current debate over the U. S. response to climate change centers around greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, which are likely to impose substantially higher costs to society than global warming might.

Inhofe: Senate Will Not Pass Cap-and-Trade

Not too long ago, global warming activism in the U.S. Capitol made some sort of carbon cap-and-trade legislation seem like a near certainty. But the tide may be turning.

According to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking Republican of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, a key committee needed for passage of a cap-and-trade bill, the trend indicates it can’t pass, at least in the U.S. Senate. He explained that the House, under the leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, will pass anything, but it takes both houses of Congress for it to become law.

“I want to tell you what’s going to happen from this point forward in my opinion,” Inhofe said at the Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C. on June 2. “First of all, the House will pass anything. Nancy Pelosi has the votes to pass anything. Don’t be distressed when you see the House passes some kind of cap-and-trade bill. And you know it could be worse [than the proposed bill] and she could still pass it, so it’ll pass there.”
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“It will pass in the House, in the Senate it will not pass,” Inhofe continued. “And her latest vote and she won’t admit this, but it’s 34 votes and it takes 60 votes in the Senate. Maybe the people who wrote our constitution knew what they were talking about.”