Houston braces for icy night after record early snowfall | Houston & Texas News

The National Weather Service noted that it's the first time Houston has had two consecutive years of measurable snow.

Obama in Copenhagen

Global Warming is real. Let's start off with that. Somehow it's become fashionable in this country and elsewhere around the globe to reject scientific investigation of natural phenomena as broadly unreliable if not threatening to personal, religious truths.

Climategate? What Climategate? - WSJ.com

After the hearing, Rep. Sensenbrenner said the refusal of committee Democrats or President Obama's representatives to take the leaked emails seriously indicated that the "the President's science advisers are at the bottom of the whole climate change debate," and just as intent as the East Anglia scientists in not having a full and open airing of the issue.

Scientific American channels Tammy Wynette: Standing by Their Men

Check out David Biello’s coverage of the Friday press conference with some of the researchers whose email was hacked, stolen, cherry-picked and reported out of context at www.scientificamerican.com.

The recycling conundrum: How your blue bin hurts the environment | Kelowna.com

San Francisco's Department of Waste recently calculated it paid $4,000 a tonne to recycle plastic bags. Its resale price for the recycled product? $32. "Nobody wants it. There's no value. It doesn't make sense," says Joseph Gho, CEO of EPI Environmental Products Inc., a Vancouver manufacturer of biodegradable plastics. "Besides the financial, the economic cost, you've got the environmental cost" of recycling unwanted material. "The trucks running out there, burning fuel … you have to use energy, you've got CO2 emissions."