Severe winter will cripple the UK, report warns | Metro.co.uk

Britain risks grinding to a halt if it suffers another severe winter, a report by local councils said today.

Bus and train companies needed to be better prepared to deal with extreme cold conditions, the report from the Local Government Association (LGA) added.

PRUDEN: Great Pumpkin soon upon us - Washington Times

The Senate is losing its grip on unreality, so it may be up to whoever can teach manners to cows and pigs to save us from the consequences of global warming. (We're supposed to call it "climate change" now, but some of us, being strict constructionists, remain faithful to the original text as set down by the founding father, Al Gore.)

Save the planet? Kill cap-and-trade | Washington Examiner

If members of Congress need yet another reason to kill the Waxman-Markey bill, the Obama administration's economy-suffocating, job-destroying energy program, Princeton University's Tim Searchinger and his colleagues have a humdinger: Carbon reduction laws encourage widespread deforestation as trees and other vegetation are harvested to produce energy from biomass to replace oil and gas. The problem is that in long run, this process actually increases greenhouse gas emissions, which cap-and-trade is meant to reduce, according to Searchinger.

Gordon Brown hails breakthrough as EU names price of tackling climate change - Telegraph

A UK government official said: "All of this is conditional on other countries putting in their fair share".

No Deal: Chamber Chief Battles Obama - WSJ.com

On many of Mr. Obama's priorities, the president and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is working to defeat the administration—delighting some members, causing some to quit and sparking a furious reaction from the White House and left-wing activists. In the process, he has made the Chamber one of Mr. Obama's most visible opponents.

On climate change, Mr. Donohue's group says warmer temperatures could help by reducing deaths related to cold weather.