Boulder County businesses slow to apply for $12M in ClimateSmart loans - Boulder Daily Camera

As of Thursday, no businesses had submitted applications for the program. County officials said they're expecting most submissions closer to the March 29 deadline.

Guest opinion: The politics of global warming - Boulder Daily Camera

[Don Lloyd] Under the headline "Experts: Mistakes in report" (Camera, Feb. 11) it was admitted that "the facts were not so good" in the second report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "which attempts to translate what global warming [GW] might mean to daily lives around the world." It was confidently stated that "no errors have surfaced in the first and most well-known of the reports, which said the physics of a warming atmosphere and rising seas is manmade and incontrovertible." However, this conveniently overlooks the infamous "hockey stick graph" so prominently touted in the IPCC report to prove the concurrence of GW and rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. When this graph was found to be constructed using basic technical mistakes by the author, it was quietly expunged from the data and the report, never to be discussed again.

Weekly Address Watch: For the thirtieth time in thirty-two weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

After a year of exhaustive debate, it is time to move forward on [health care] reform.

Florida's cold kills manatee from zoo | The Columbus Dispatch

Florida's cold weather has claimed a former Columbus Zoo and Aquarium manatee.

Assistant Zoo Director Patty Peters said Gene, who lived at the Columbus Zoo from 1999 to 2005, was found dead last month from cold stress.

Gene is among about 200 manatees killed by unprecedented cold weather in Florida this year.