Frosty ČR sets record low temperatures | Prague Monitor

Prague, Jan 27 (CTK) - Night temperatures in the Czech Republic that dropped below minus 30 degrees centigrade beat records and complicated operation on the rails Wednesday.

Doctors treated frostbitten people across the country.

One man died of hypothermia in Prague on Tuesday, another dead man was found in south Moravia, bringing the number of frost victims to almost 40 since last November. Fifteen of them have died in Prague alone.

Global warming alarmists confusing students :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Betsy Hart

Do we really want to tell the folks in Haiti that fuel -- and everything it provides, which is pretty much everything -- will be far more expensive if the global warming alarmists have their way?

That's uber-arrogance and it is something I've talked about a lot with my children. That the global warming alarmists often are examples of, at best, folks who can't be confused with facts. At worst -- to offer a different but I think more apt proverb than those on the science teacher's Web site -- they are too often part of a movement that loves humanity, but hates people.

SEC: Companies Should Disclose Climate Risks to Investors | Clean Skies

But the two Republicans on the commission, Kathleen Casey and Troy Paredes, voted against the guidelines and called the move a political one. Both said scientific claims that man-made emissions are contributing to global warming are “unsettled” and today’s move could swamp investors with unnecessary information.

"I can only conclude that the purpose of this release is to place the imprimatur of the commission on the agenda of the social and environmental policy lobby, an agenda that falls outside of our expertise," Casey told the Wall Street Journal.

Reid faces pressure on climate change - The Hill's E2-Wire

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is facing new pressure to include limits on greenhouse gases in an energy bill.
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More than 30 groups signed the letter, including the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, United Steelworkers [how well would American solar-powered steel mills fare against global competition?], Oxfam, Interfaith Power and Light and others.

Apple, pear crop to shrink 15pc | New Zealand

This season's apple and pear export crop is expected to be down 15 per cent nationally on last year's, but only 3 per cent in Nelson.

The big drop is largely due to a lousy spring in Hawke's Bay, which grows 60 per cent of the export crop.

Pipfruit New Zealand chief executive Peter Beaven said while Nelson had a cool spring, it was much worse in Hawke's Bay which had cold weather, rain and some hail.