Michigan:  Too cold for dance to raise global warming awareness

Despite this afternoon’s harsh winds and gray sky, close to 50 people gathered before an eight-foot-tall “350” sign at Bay City’s Veterans Memorial Park to participate in the International Day of Climate Action.
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[Terry Miller] added 350 is a realistic target to shoot for, a compromise between an ideal 275 and a dire 400.
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While the weather did put a damper on some of the day’s festivities — causing a “Dance for the Planet” performance by students from Perry Woodard School, 1403 Columbus, to be canceled — participants remained optimistic.

“It’s disappointing, not to be able to do the full program, but we have a good turnout of hearty people on a very cold day,” said Lynn Derck, the event’s publicity coordinator.

[Overheated Earth: Now so warm that some baseball players almost don't need to wear Elmer Fudd caps]

New Era, which manufactures Major League Baseball's official headgear, has stocked three types of cold-weather items, which may make baseball old-timers turn red but keep ears from turning a crimson colour during four-hour-plus night games in the Northeast autumn: the downflap (which many players call "Elmer Fudds" after Bugs Bunny's ever-unsuccessful pursuer), a knit cap that is a little like a ski hat, and a balaclava, a ski mask that leaves only the face or eyes uncovered - something previously used in sport by auto racers in fire-retardant materials.

Why "350" is key to global warming | Marketplace From American Public Media

Bill McKibben: 350 is the most important number in the world, even though nobody really knew it was important two years ago. Once the Arctic had melted in the summer of 2007, our climate scientists went back to work and they said, "This is happening faster than we thought. And the reason is that the climate is more sensitive than we thought."

Illinois: Peru hoped energy program would deliver more

Peru residents this month will see a carbon tax listed on their bill in the amount of $0.00.
That’s because the city council’s electric committee wanted residents to see that a tax could be coming, if the federal government’s enacts a new carbon-cap bill. The city plans to pass any carbon tax onto its customers.
“Whatever we pay that’s what they’re going to pay,” said Alderman Ron Wren, on the city council’s electric committee. “It will be based on tons of emissions. And that has not been established at this point.”