Olympics-U.N.'s Ban urges Olympic support for climate [hoax] deal | Reuters

COPENHAGEN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world sports and Olympic officials on Saturday to lend support to a global climate deal which he called a "race against time."

Promising to "sprint like an Olympian" himself to secure a climate deal among nations in December, Ban urged International Olympic Committee members and other sports leaders at a three-day Olympic Congress, to help reach that goal.

Who’s Counting? Obama’s Olympic Failure Has Meaning for Copenhagen and Climate Change : Red, Green, and Blue

As the world closes in on December’s big UN climate change conference — back in Copenhagen — it begs the question: is the White House strategy informed by good ground-level information on where other parties sit?
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But, what if they are not close to 60? What if the lever is not the right one to swing the votes they need. Based on their recent due diligence, it is difficult to say whether the White House even knows where their votes are, who can be swung, and how. That said, should they roll the dice with an EPA plan? How will the inevitable backlash inside the US look on the global stage?

New Zealand: Cold snap bites South Island

A cold front has lashed the bottom of the South Island.

For many farmers and their newborn spring lambs, it's an unwanted return to winter.

"There's more snow on the ground than there was all winter," says farmer Paul Davis. "We haven't had snow all winter like this."

Global warming and the maiming of science: Thomas Fuller

What's happening now in the discussions regarding global warming is injuring science. It is not changing anybody's opinion [how does Fuller know this?]. It certainly is not changing the temperature.