Early freeze puts winemakers in rush to crush | Spokesman.com | Oct 16, 2009

Greg Lipsker, co-founder of Barrister Winery in Spokane, found himself in a cold vineyard near Pasco just after midnight Tuesday waiting to rescue wine grapes from last weekend’s freeze.

He was part of a frenzy that overtook the wine-growing region of Washington this week as growers and wine makers hustled to harvest and crush their fruit after lows hit 20 degrees in the vineyards.

Spokane Climate Action Event

The Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change set 450 PPM (parts per million) of CO2 in our atmosphere as a goal for sustaining life more or less as we know it on planet Earth. However, since 2007, monitoring of the Arctic sea ice, ocean acidity, and other evidence indicate that global warming is occurring much more quickly than the early estimates indicated. NASA’s Dr.James Hansen, a prominent atmospheric scientist, is leading the effort to revise the climate action goal to 350 PPM. Currently the atmosphere has 387 PPM CO2. You can imagine, many world leaders will be reluctant to accept this new target of 350, in their understandable efforts to protect their vision of “the economy”, and to resist change. This is why it is up to us to insist on a Global Climate Change Policy that will have the best chance to protect life as we - including peoples of the Arctic, of small ocean islands, of drought-stricken east Africa, etc.- know it.

[Maybe these people don't know everything]: Harvard’s Bet on Interest Rate Rise Cost $500 Million to Exit - Bloomberg.com

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University’s failed bet that interest rates would rise cost the world’s richest school at least $500 million in payments to escape derivatives that backfired.

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Obama's Climate Change Envoy says 'its possible there won't be a deal at Copenhagen..its a tough negotiation'. Tonight at 1830

Climate change 'larceny' - Welland Tribune - Ontario, CA

No longer a covert "Socialist scheme to suck money out of the wealth-producing nations," as Stephen Harper once described it, this UN larceny requires that the new money be remitted directly to the UN for disbursement and effectively usurps the autonomy of sovereign nations to manage their own foreign aid programs.

Historically, Canada has avoided providing foreign aid to genocidal maniacs, human rights violators and nuclear proliferators. But, under Copenhagen, that's about to change. Clearly, it isn't just the cheese that stinks in Denmark.

Ron Michaels Welland