Avoiding a trap on climate change - washingtonpost.com

The correct response to the prospect of large-scale EPA regulation is not to waste lawmakers' energy in a probably futile attempt to weaken the agency. Instead, the Senate should provide a better alternative.

That effort is already fraught. The best policies -- a simple carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme -- aren't gaining steam. Instead, the House passed a leviathan bill, and the Senate is stalled. Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) indicated last week that he fears Ms. Murkowski's measure will diminish chances of producing a bipartisan climate-change bill. Ms. Murkowski would do better by helping end the Senate's paralysis than by seeking to condemn the rest of government to the same inaction.

Record Low Temperatures Fail To Deter Russians From Icy Swim For Epiphany Religious Holiday | World News | Sky News

It's minus 22 degrees on the Moscow River. Six layers of clothing make it just about bearable, although the feeling in my toes is fast disappearing.

The idea of stripping off and plunging into the icy depths is unthinkable. But that's exactly what the slowly gathering Russian ice swimmers are here to do.

Cars can drive on the ice that covers the river. It's almost a metre thick so actually getting through it to create a pool is a challenge.

Wong unfazed by challenge to IPCC

CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has leapt to the defence of the United Nations' benchmark document on climate change as it faces a fresh challenge to its reputation as the world's most credible study on the impacts of global warming.

Wall Street Journal: The Obama Administration Climate Change

The issue of climate change is a hot topic and the Obama Administration is sure to face scrutiny over how it addresses it. Should climate change be at the forefront of Obama's agenda? Or are there more pressing issues that he should prioritize? How should the next administration tackle this issue?