Stalk Rots, Ear Rots Are Prevalent In Iowa Corn This Fall - Wallaces Farmer

The cool, wet growing season of 2009 has favored infection and the development of certain corn ear rots and stalk rots in Iowa fields. Foliar diseases that showed up earlier in the growing season may have increased the risk of stalk rots occurring. In corn fields across the state, anthracnose and Gibberella stalk rots are common. Ear rots that are being reported across Iowa this fall include Diplodia, Gibberella and Fusarium.

Turnbull calls for talks after poll pummelling - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Opposition is ramping up a threat to delay a Senate vote on an emissions trading scheme until next year.

FIGHTING EXTREMISM: Doco speaks inconvenient truth to enviro-power

...much of the debate about global warming appears to be directed by those who are seeking to combat capitalism under the cloak of extreme environmentalism by brilliantly appealing to the doomsday egomania within us.

ABC News - Special Events Blog: Taking the temperature of our climate scientists, part 1

Have you heard the one about the international climate scientist buying land in New Zealand? An isolated, cold and elevated hideaway could be become de rigeur in family wills to try to protect future generations against rising sea levels, drought and heatwaves. Actually there's no punchline here. It's just a rumour. But it's also an uncomfortable realisation that some experts studying the data may have already decided what the future looks like.