Serious or spoof?: Freezing people on World Environment Day | Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog

June 5 is World Environment Day and across New Zealand hundreds of people will “freeze” together to show united action for climate change. The Freeze will take place for 5 minutes at 1pm in cities throughout New Zealand - the exact locations will only be revealed the day before.

Apparently the event has been arranged by someone known only as “Mr Freeze”, a mysterious character who has sent out the call for “humans to freeze on World Environment Day”.

SUE METZGER: What is Michigan's weather problem?

Something strange has happened to Michigan weather, and it isn't a product of global warning. If winters in Michigan were not already long enough, they seem to have further lengthened the past few years. Not only is the cold weather painfully lingering, but the winds in this state have unpleasantly increased.

Sometimes, I wake on chilly, wind-whipping mornings thinking I am living once again where I grew up - in Kansas, the home of Dorothy and her little dog Toto. I am so disgusted with Michigan weather that I now tell friends living in other U.S. states that Michigan has only two seasons: winter and August.

Is this permanent change or a temporary anomaly?

Australia: Fielding on climate change mission in US

Family First senator Steve Fielding says he's neither a climate change sceptic or fanatic and just wants to make up his own mind.

Senator Fielding, whose vote could be crucial to success or failure of the government's emissions trading legislation, is now in Washington to hear from both sides of the complex debate.

He said he was meeting some climate change experts from the Obama administration and others who could be billed as climate change sceptics.

"There are some people here who believe that man-made carbon emissions are a small proportion and therefore the response needs to be different," he told ABC radio.