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PLAN C: U.S. SENATE SAYS NO

The U.S. Senate votes against the climate bill, but other nations reluctantly go ahead with many measures to fight climate change anyway hoping the United States will formally join the global effort at some point.

In the worst-case scenario, negotiations start to resemble failed trade talks that repeatedly stall. Nations instead work on bilateral clean-energy and carbon offset deals that fail to achieve major reductions in the growth of emissions.

Weekend frost hits Walla Walla hard

Saturday's hard frost has devastated the Walla Walla Valley. I spoke this morning with Norm McKibben of Pepper Bridge Winery, and he said he has yet to find a green leaf in the valley.

He said the all-time low for Oct. 10 was 33 degrees - until Saturday, when temperatures dropped as low as 20 degrees across the valley.

Baltimore: Record cold days and some snow on the way

On Wednesday October 14th, we had the coldest day for that date in 135 years. With this wet and chilly weather pattern, a type of record will be mentioned that is not often talked about. It's called the 'Low Maximum' temperature. The mark of a maximum temperature of 50F tied that 'coldest afternoon' set back in 1874. It looks like today will set a new record in that category, and perhaps three more record cold days to follow.

The University of Idaho Argonaut - Deep Freeze kills Crops

Morning light shows death of crops for local farmers

As the dawn of last Saturday unfolded, the light fell upon mealy apples still clinging to trees whose leaves had turned blackish-brown, ready to fall without glorious fall colors.

Mother Earth had struck again, with record low temperatures reaching the low 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and down into the teens and lower in the subsequent nights.
Wayne Shull, a Washington State University agricultural research technician, said the Tukey Horticulture Orchard on Airport Road in Pullman saw temperature get down to 12 degrees Fahrenheit.