Does Peeing Before Boarding an Airplane Really Save Carbon Emissions? « Climate Progress

What is ironic is that the airline that is saving 5 tons of greenhouse gas emissions in October by asking its passengers to pee before boarding is creating many more greenhouse gas emissions through their newly announced helicopter airport transfer for First Class passengers. Helicopters, of course, are one of the least efficient means of transportation from an environmental perspective.

Danish minister: North American politicians should learn from their European counterparts

A failure to craft at least a framework of an accord will represent a lost opportunity that may not present itself again for years, says Denmark's minister for climate and energy in an interview.

Washington state: Bellingham shatters cold record

BELLINGHAM - The cold weather set a new low record for Oct. 12, when the temperature fell to 25 degrees, breaking the old record of 32 degrees, as recorded at Bellingham International Airport. The previous record was set in 1972 and matched in 2002, according to the National Weather Service.

Western Montana towns report coldest temperatures ever for Oct. 12

Residents across the region awoke Monday morning to the coldest temperatures ever recorded on an Oct. 12. They reached single digits across most of western Montana, and in Kalispell dipped to just 2 degrees.

It was 8 in Missoula, breaking the record low of 22 set in 2002. Kalispell easily broke its record low of 14, set the same year.

The mercury didn't just threaten to dip below zero. In the tiny outpost of Polebridge, on the west side of Glacier National Park, it reached 13 below zero Monday morning.

It was the fourth straight day of weather records in the region, which Jessica Nolte, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Missoula, called "a pretty big event when you have this many low temperature records being broken, and not just by a couple of degrees. We've seen lows that were 12, 14, even 20 degrees below the previous records."