ITALY AND SPAIN, CROPS UNDER THE SNOW

From Spain to Italy, Europe is under a white cover that is causing a lot of problems and inconvenience to the farmers.
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The biggest concern, however, is the chill that threatens the horticultural crops. There are already damages in some areas where crops have been destroyed of zucchini, salad, cabbage, cauliflower, chicory, and collard.

AA blames councils for failing to grit roads 'sooner' as thousands of motorists are left trapped overnight | Mail Online

AA reports busiest night in 25 years - 700 breakdowns coming in every hour today

Democratic Representative Griffith of Alabama to Switch Parties - Bloomberg.com

He was one of just seven Democrats to vote against President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package and he opposed Democratic efforts to curb global warming.

India at Copenhagen news-India emerged a winner at Copenhagen: Jairam

Rejecting the Opposition charges about compromising the country's interests, he argued that India had to be flexible as it, along with China, Brazil and South Africa, did not want to be "responsible for failure" of the climate meet and become "blame boys".

Copenhagen: Things Fall Apart And An Uncertain Future Looms

It was a train wreck, but a fascinating one, revealing an enormous amount about the structure of the globe.
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I’ve heard from a number of sources, Obama met with 25 other world leaders after his press conference for a negotiating session. It was a disaster — China turned down one reasonable idea after another, unwilling to constrain its ability to burn coal in any meaningful way [who do we "blame" for this: George Bush or Rush Limbaugh?] (and not needing to, since power, especially in any non-military negotiation, has swung definitively in its direction).

Ten Predictions for 2010 - Financial Adviser - WSJ

10.) The world will not end.

That’s not to say the media won’t try to convince you it will. Again and again. We will see the usual headlines: pandemics, global warming, terrorism, financial collapse, hyperinflation, nuclear proliferation, celebrity cheating, on and on. The media can’t survive without every week scaring you into thinking we all only have a few weeks to live (e.g., Al Gore saying that the North Pole would melt within the next five years. It’s just not true).

But the world’s end isn’t near. In fact, things will be better than ever.

European weather deaths pass 100 | World news | guardian.co.uk

More than 100 people have been killed in the cold snap across Europe, with temperatures plummeting and snowfall causing chaos from Moscow to Milan.
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Roads were not exempt from the chaos. After a weekend that brought the heaviest snowfall in about 100 years, Moscow was gridlocked, with tailbacks snailing around the Russian capital.