American public aims a growing yawn at 'climate change': Kevin O'Brien | Kevin O'Brien - cleveland.com

And what will be obvious to a lot of taxpayers is that at a time when the federal government is piling debt upon debt, it's creating a new agency to hawk a product the United Nations and Al Gore couldn't sell.
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Here's a better idea: Instead of creating a new government agency, let's give those 550 scientists their walking papers and encourage them to be the pioneers of America's new private climate-change industry.

They'd go bust in a heartbeat, but we taxpayers would save a few bucks.

Whistler Enjoys Record Snowfall for Olympics, Lower Slopes Not So Much

In Vancouver, flowering plum and cherry trees are beginning to blossom about two weeks earlier than ususual, but snow abounds up on Whistler Mountain, 76 miles to the north and nearly a mile higher in elevation.

Up at Whistler an unprecedented 9.88 metres (32.4 feet) of snow is on the ground, to the delight of Olympics organizers.

No snow? No surprise. Vancouver is warmest city to ever host Winter Olympics

[2003] When Vancouver plays host to the Olympic Games six-and-a-half years from now, it will mark a peculiar milestone -- as the least wintery city ever to host the Winter Games.

Statistics compiled by The Vancouver Sun indicate that no city with a climate as mild as Vancouver's has ever hosted the Winter Games.
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But world sports fans who turn on their TVs in 2010 will probably see the kind of winter Vancouverites know all too well: a cloudy, rainy city full of people carrying umbrellas.
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But Vancouver has an average snowfall of just 48 centimetres and -- as most Vancouverites know -- it is rare for even that small amount to stay on the ground for more than a couple of days.

Vancouver's lack of snow will have no practical impact on the Games.

Global weirding, East Coast snow storms, and Vancouver’s snow shortage | Grist

We can also absolutely expect more snow shortages in places that normally receive a lot of snowfall, like Vancouver, British Columbia. Climatologists expect just this sort of “global weirding”: less predictable, more extreme, more damaging.