New Study Shows Drop In UK Travel Improved Climate Conditions - Tonic

Due to the poor economy, Brits stayed closer to home while on holiday, which made for less greenhouse gases being released into the environment. With airlines cutting back their schedules, the cost of oil and the lack of deals, fewer jetsetters means less damage done to the ozone layer.

Freezing night threatens crops at apple orchard

Clive Kaiser, horticulture agent with Oregon State University's extension office in Milton-Freewater agreed - this early freeze was unusual.

"Halloween is normally the first freeze," he said. "This wasn't a typical year for the freeze, as cold as it was."

Powell Tribune - Growers fear looming disaster

Hopkin toured local fields on Tuesday with Western Sugar officials, as did Rodriguez, and watched as beet after beet dug from different fields all showed frost damage.

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change - O'Reilly Radar

Back in January, I wrote a blog post summarizing my position on climate change. Entitled Pascal's Wager and Climate Change, the post makes the argument that even if you're a skeptic about climate change or humanity's role in causing it, the risks of ignoring the issue are great, and the benefits from addressing it are significant even if scientists are completely wrong about the causes.