The Climate Change Mythbuster -  Green - MSN CA

Denialist boom

In fact, Hoggan says, not only are the deniers still around, "they seem to be on the increase." As the public grows more aware of the unshakeable strength of the scientific consensus and the urgency of the problem, so does the desperation and the stubbornness of those determined to deny its importance for the sake of big money. "This isn't a conspiracy--it's an industry," he says.

[Weekly address watch: For the thirteenth time in fourteen weeks, Obama completely ignores The Most Important Issue of All Time]

Now, I welcome a good debate. I welcome the chance to defend our proposals and to test our ideas in the fires of this democracy. But what I will not abide are those who would bend the truth – or break it – to score political points and stop our progress as a country. And what we all must oppose are the same old cynical Washington games that have been played for decades even as our problems have grown and our challenges have mounted.

Last November, the American people went to the polls in historic numbers and demanded change.

Snow forces Penn State to call an audible

For the first time in 108 years, an early-season snowfall blanketed this Central Pennsylvania college town, complicating life for 100,000 Penn State fans expected at today's football game.

AccuWeather said 7 inches of snow fell between Thursday and 8 a.m. yesterday, while the National Weather Service put the total at 4.7 inches.

The previous earliest snowfall recorded here was Oct. 18, 1901, when one-tenth of an inch fell.

With an additional 2 to 8 inches of snow forecast prior to game time, the university has banned tailgating and tents and closed all grass parking lots -- roughly 20,000 spots.

Corn growers devastated - North Dakota

Even if the killing frost had not occurred, the outlook for corn was bleak for much of north-central North Dakota.

Adnan Akyuz, state climatologist, said corn grown in the Minot area needs approximately 2,050 to 2,150 growing degree days, or GDD, to reach maturity. As of Thursday, the area had accumulated 1,874 GDD.
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"Even if we wouldn't have had the hard freeze, the corn was so late getting planted and the summer temperatures were so much cooler and October 26 was coming up so it would have stopped development (of the corn) anyway," he said, adding that Oct. 26 is typically the cutoff date for crops to accumulate GDDs.

[Aren't these people worried about kidney stones?]: Unseasonable cold drives snowbirds south

McALLEN — With the forecast calling for another freezing cold night, Richard and Vickie Burton packed the car and fled south for the blistering heat of the Rio Grande Valley.

After a chilly summer in Missouri and with fall quickly covering the Midwest in cold, the Burton family drove more than 16 hours last Saturday, joining hundreds of other Winter Texans who returned early to their winter homes.