[Headline from the bizarro world of CBS News]: Climate Change "350" Goal Gains Steam

"It's the most important number in the world," said Bill McKibben, founder of the environmental activist group 350.org. "It's the line between habitability on this planet and a really, really desolate future."

Frost tolerant wheat varieties a step closer

RESEARCHERS have moved a step closer to breeding wheat varieties with improved frost tolerance, thanks to a series of milder frost events in Western Australia this year.
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“We have concentrated on severe frosts in the past, and while some barley varieties have suffered more than others, with wheat everything was wiped out so we couldn’t see whether some varieties were more tolerant,” Dr Biddulph said.

Only Siberia was colder | Edmonton | News | Edmonton Sun

Motorists requiring AMA's services were faced with 24-hour wait times for tows and 14-hour wait times for other services such as tire changes and boosts, said spokesman Kent Dixon. On an average day, wait times for a tow would be an hour and less than an hour for all other services, he added.

Climate change, minus the hot air | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/14/2009

How do we know humans are to blame?

"It's a process of elimination," said Pilewskie, who studies changes in the sun. Nothing unusual has been going on with the sun in the last 30 years, he said. Others have noted that nothing unusual is occurring with volcanoes. The one thing we know has changed is the CO2 component of the atmosphere - it's risen about 30 percent since the start of the industrial revolution.

How Greenpeace stole Christmas | Monte Solberg | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

I want Christmas decorations hanging from my Parliament buildings, not eco-hustlers desperate to part the gullible from their wallets.