Global Warming Dominates the Blogs - Pew Research Center

For the week of Oct. 12-16, 50% of the links to news-related stories from blogs were to one BBC report about global warming, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. That equaled the fourth-largest total for any story this year, and represented the most attention to a subject since the political unrest in Iran made up 63% of the links the week of June 15-19.

The Oct. 9 BBC story, headlined "What Happened to Global Warming?" noted that global temperatures had not increased over the last 11 years and quoted several scientists who claimed that man-made climate change is not occurring. The blogosphere was dominated by those who cited the story as evidence to support their skepticism about global warming and criticized those warning of the dangers of rising temperatures.

Reuters AlertNet - Caritas launches appeal as harsh winter looms in Afghanistan

Years of drought and a severe winter in 2008 have devastated communities in western and central Afghanistan.
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Severe winter weather in Afghanistan can leave people cut off from help. In such cases, they also may sell cattle and tools to buy food to keep them from going hungry.

Obama campaign biopic already dated - Washington Times

As the general election comes to a rousing crescendo, we see freezing masses in Hyde Park and tears of joy and a resolute man getting ready to do the business of the people.

And all that's gone now. President Obama is just another president. Partisanship has made its inevitable return, and the prospect of the healing, post-racial new beginning that Mr. Obama was supposed to represent seems to have evaporated like so many other promises.

"By the People" captures a mood. Should we be surprised that this mood couldn't last?

Nobel laureate Pachauri calls for coalition to stimulate political action - People's Daily Online

Six weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Nobel Peace Laureate Rajenda K. Pachauri said it is "entirely possible to bring about both technological and lifestyle changes to ensure higher efficiencies" in the way people use natural resources.