New Zealand: Coldest in decades

Meteorologist Tony Trewinnard says it has not been this cold in decades

"If we look back at the month of May the temperatures over New Zealand were pretty much colder than anything we'd had since the mid 1950s," he says. "And we look back at the recently completely month of June you go back to into the '70s before you have a month that had similar cold weather patterns."

After dreary June, local farmers long for sunny days ahead | CapeCodOnline.com

The gloomy cold weather has affected more than just beach traffic. Farmers are facing thousands of dollars in losses following a Cape and Islands June that felt more like April.

Rep. Walt Minnick's climate change vote may cost him | News Updates | Idaho Statesman

Voting with the GOP might seem like an easy political choice for the Idaho Democrat. But could it be a problem when he needs clout to help the state?
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Walt Minnick what it would take to get him to vote for a climate bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions and allow industries to trade pollution credits.

The vote was expected to be close and Pelosi was willing to make sure Minnick, the congressman from Idaho's First District, got what he wanted for his constituents or state businesses. Several other Democrats in the room got what they wanted - including more for farmers, and changed their votes.

"She asked me if I was able to vote for it now," Minnick said. "I said 'No Nancy, I don't believe in cap and trade.'

[From the comment section] | News Updates | Idaho Statesman

A common sense vote like this may cost Minnick with the radical environmentalists, but it won't hurt him with middle class swing voters like us. We appreciate Minnick voting to protect us from the skyrocketing energy costs that Obama himself promised would be the result of federal cap and trade legislation. Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Ed Markey and other wealthy fat cats in Washington can afford this bill. Ordinary working Idahoans like us can't take such a hit, especially not with all the other tax increases Obama and the Democrats have in store for us. A national sales tax? Check. A tax on health care benefits? You got it! Change you can believe in? Only if you're rich, and we aren't. Thanks, Walt, for remembering who you work for.