U.S. to press ahead on climate [scam] | Reuters

"Look, I'm still going to be optimistic and say there is a chance that there will be a bill that the Senate and House have agreed upon that goes before the president before Copenhagen," Chu said.
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...Chu's optimism was not widely shared.

"I don't think we're going to have cap and trade" enacted this year, Senator Charles Grassley told the Reuters Washington Summit.
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"People of good faith say the U.S. ought to pass a bill to set a standard for the rest of the world and the rest of the world will follow along. But if the rest of the world doesn't follow Uncle Sam, we soon become Uncle Sucker," Grassley said, citing job-loss fears if manufacturers move factories abroad to get unrestricted amounts of cheaper fossil fuels.

Ethan Siegal of The Washington Exchange, a private firm that tracks Congress and the White House for institutional investors, said: "The proper selling of cap and trade has not been done in this country." In remarks to the Reuters summit, he added, "No one quite understands cap trade, what does it mean, what does it mean for their lives?"

Instead of a comprehensive climate change bill passing Congress this year or next, Siegal predicted a "down-sized energy bill next year" that could be a combination of tax credits for alternative energy sources, more offshore oil drilling and steps to promote nuclear energy.

Southern Times - Africa: A child of [allegedly CO2-induced] woes

With the latest conference on global warming and climate change, however, it became extremely clear that Africa once again was to become the scapegoat for issues that were none of its makings. Our beautiful continent, probably ' except maybe for the Arctic and the Antarctic ' the least polluted on Mother Earth, was told in no uncertain terms that it would have to bear the brunt of the Western world's excesses.
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We must not. We must make our voices heard and we must make those pay who are at the heart of the misery. Let us treat the cause and not the symptoms.

Rainy, cold weather make Illinois' harvest among the latest ever - WQAD

A temperature that averaged 12 degrees below normal last week and rainfall exceeding the average could push harvesting of corn and soybeans into December.

Oxfam America Blog » Blog Archive » So much for global warming

...last week when we had what amounted to a cold snap—about three days of weather in the 50s—conversations usually started with some variation on the theme of global warming: “So much for global warming,” someone would say. Or, “We really could use some of that global warming about now.”

Montana: Cold rots area spuds

LAKE COUNTY — The extended below-freezing snap that settled over the area earlier this month most likely cost Lake County potato growers about $2 million, said Dale Neiman, Lake County Farm Service Agency office manager.

For climate activists, '350' is a call to action - Capital Weather Gang

350.org has already made waves recently, so to speak. The group helped organize an Oct. 17 cabinet meeting held underwater by the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, to highlight the threat climate change-induced sea-level rise poses to his low-lying island nation. This weekend, 350 divers plan to be in the Maldives' Male Lagoon to mark 350.org's "International Day of Climate Action."
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The most prominent scientific voice in favor of the 350 ppm target has been NASA climate scientist James Hansen, who first discussed it at a scientific conference in 2007. Hansen will take part in a 350.org rally in Rome on Sunday, in keeping with his increasingly activist-oriented role in recent years.