Lugar_ Pocketbook issues would lower _cap_and_trade_ [swindle] support

WASHINGTON – Two pocketbook events -- higher electric bills stemming from caps on the allowable pollution that coal-powered utilities can emit or a sudden increase in the cost of oil -- would evaporate public support for anti-pollution policies, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., warned Monday.

In a speech in Indianapolis, Lugar said the country’s production would decline 1 percent to 2 percent if cap-and-trade – the policy of limiting the amount of carbon power plants can emit but letting dirtier ones buy credits from less-polluting companies – is implemented. He said Indiana, home of coal-fired power plants, would feel the effects even more.

Snow may fall on Fort Collins later this week | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan,

Southern Wyoming this morning has already seen upward of 2 inches of snow, said Don Day Jr. of DayWeather, the Coloradoan's weather service.
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"Fall was cancelled and we've gone straight to winter," he said as a joke.

B.C. may force homeless indoors in cold snaps

Internal government documents show the B.C. government is drafting legislation to force homeless people into emergency shelters during extreme winter weather, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Citing climate change [scam], federal judge says grizzlies still threatened

BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana restored protections Monday for an estimated 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing in part a decline in their food supply caused by climate change.

After bouncing back from near-extermination last century, grizzlies were declared recovered in 2007, when they were stripped of their threatened status under the Endangered Species Act.

Yellowstone [grizzly population booming]

Recent Actions: On March 22, 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced that the Yellowstone Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of grizzly bears is a recovered population no longer meeting the ESA’s definition of threatened or endangered. This DPS has increased from estimates as low as 136 individuals when listed in 1975 to more than 500 animals as of 2006. This population has been increasing between 4 and 7 percent annually. The range of this population also has increased dramatically as evidenced by the 48 percent increase in occupied habitat since the 1970s. Yellowstone grizzly bears continue to increase their range and distribution annually and grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area now occupy habitats they have been absent from for decades.