Energy security?: U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed.

Trip to 2010: Worst-Kept Secrets Will Kill Climate Bill : Red, Green, and Blue

Whatever the result, it now seems highly unlikely that the House and Senate could possibly agree on a bill in conference committee during this session, and any climate change legislation will likely have to wait until after mid-term elections. Of course, by that time, President Obama will be ramping up his own re-election bid and with hurt feelings among many of the constituencies that supported him in 2008 (gay rights groups and anti-war activists chief among them), Obama may choose to take on some more mainstream initiatives and leave climate change to the side for a while
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Take it for what it is: my imagination. Except that we already know that most of this WILL certainly happen. What we don’t know yet, is how we’ll react.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Global warming arrives in Minnesota

We have had two cold and long winters in a row, and today indicates that 2009-10 will be longer and colder yet; last year, we didn’t get our first sticking snowfall until the end of October.

Twitter / Jeff Murman

Thanks for putting a quick end to global warming Obama! Snow in early October, what's next? Wine from the water fountains??!?

UK eases first year of carbon trading scheme | Carbon Offsets Daily

Retailers and big business caught in the UK’s domestic carbon trading scheme will only need to report on their emissions for the first year of the programme, not surrender allowances, under changes announced today.