Jerusalem Preparing for Snow - Inside Israel - Israel News - Israel National News

Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat has ordered municipal teams to ensure the drivability of the city's main roads as well as arterial roads from the various Jerusalem neighborhoods to the city's many hospitals. The snow teams will also sprinkle salt on freezing points throughout Jerusalem's road system.

Snow damages some of the oldest greenhouses in Virginia

Snow has collapsed the roof on several greenhouses and caused the building supports to bend and break.
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The snow isn't just hurting business, it's also damaging history. These greenhouses were built in 1919. They're believed to be the oldest in Virginia.

AFP: Global warming good for trees, [allegedly] bad for ducks: studies

WASHINGTON — Global warming is good news for trees, which are thriving in higher temperatures and longer growing seasons, but bad news for ducks and other waterfowl, whose wetland habitat may dry up and disappear, two studies show.
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A model developed by the researchers to try to understand the impact of a warmer climate on the wetlands projected major reductions in water volume, a shortening of the time water stays in the wetlands, and changes to vegetation in the vast area, which reaches across North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana and Iowa and into Canada.

NPWRC :: Duck Nest Success

Snowstorms caused embryo mortality and nest abandonment, especially among mallards and northern pintails. Although embryos can survive limited exposure to subfreezing temperatures (Greenwood 1969, Batt and Cornwell 1972), Dzubin and Gollop (1972) reported that chilling of embryos during cold spring weather was partly responsible for failure of up to 9% of eggs in early mallard nests.

YouTube - An Honest Scientist Tackles 'ClimateGate'

[Climate scientist William Sprigg delivered a bold challenge to his fellow climate scientists in a blockbuster address to EUEC 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona on February 2.]  An IPCC climate scientist bravely took on "ClimateGate" head-on, and called for "serious reforms" of the global scientific community. This video, taken by The Heartland Institute at a climate conference not friendly to "deniers," presents the highlights of this remarkable lecture.