Cold weather helps beaches, ruins swimming - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

Paul Callanan, director of environmental health for Peel Region, said people aren't hitting the beaches west of Toronto in droves because it's just too cold.

Ok, so at the height of summer in Toronto, it's still too cold to swim.

How much money will Joe Q. Public willingly pay for harebrained government attempts to make it cooler outside?

[Can Ed Miliband successfully sell the climate hoax to children?]

As part of the visit Scouts from the UK linked up via a web link with Ed Miliband, Secretary of state for Energy and Climate Change, to contribute to a discussion on how young people from across the Europe could reduce the impact of climate change.

[Without subsidies, could wind power make enough money to pay its own legal fees?] - Telegraph

Vestas Wind Systems, the owners of a wind turbine factory being occupied by workers, won a possession order on Tuesday as the protest spread to a second factory.

Northeast Ohio's summer peach crop is the pits, thanks to a cold day in January - cleveland.com

Workers did a little peach pickin' Monday morning at Quarry Hill Orchards. Very little, as it turned out.

The fuzzed-and-juicy treat failed to color most Ohio orchards this year, as January's extreme cold nipped the crop in the bud. Growers expect a harvest of 2,340 tons -- down about 65 percent from 2008, according to state agricultural forecasters. It will go down as one of the state's worst hauls over the past 20 years.
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One regional grower contacted Monday said an orchard that filled 40,000 crates last year yielded "about five peaches" this summer. To fill the shelves at its market, the farm -- which asked that its name not be used -- trucked in peaches from Pennsylvania.