Extreme US winter signals climate change-report | Reuters

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Extreme winter weather in the northern United States shows that climate change can have severe effects, even when it doesn't warm things up, the National Wildlife Federation reported on Thursday.

Climate change is expected to bring shorter, milder winters overall, but some U.S. areas will have more intense snows, with more disruption to such activities as skiing and ice fishing, which depend on predictable conditions, the report said.

"More oddball winter weather is terrible news for skiers," the federation's Chip Knight, a former U.S. Olympic slalom skier, told reporters.

“Looking Forward by Looking Back: What Does the Fossil Record Say About Climate Change?” - Smithsonian Education Online Conference

Back from his most recent fieldwork in Wyoming, Scott Wing will share with us the exciting story of his discoveries about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period over 55 million years ago when the average temperature of Earth warmed nine degrees in a geological instant.

Back to the Future - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Trains are the future? Obamaphiles are convinced that Communist China and an economically sclerotic Europe are the future (“there’s no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains that manufacture clean-energy products,” said the president), but trains have failed in the United States because they are unable to compete against planes and autos in a suburban country of open spaces.

Florida take note. Here in the Midwest, passenger rail used to run between the major metro hubs of Chicago and Detroit. It dried up long ago.

Registries close amid online scam fears - News - Point Carbon

Carbon registries across Europe today warned of an online scam to access user accounts.