Snowstorm Aims for Omaha, Indianapolis to New York City, Washington, D.C.

Schools will close, plans will be foiled, and flights will be canceled. Some roads could close from the Virginias to Maryland, Delaware, northwestern North Carolina, southern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Motorists should be prepared for a slow go due to snow, slush, and icy spots.

Recall that much of this area was slammed by the Christmas week blizzard.

UK News :: Climate change cynicism a tragedy says Lord Smith

SCEPTICISM over climate change is on the increase ­following a spate of controversies about the research, the head of the Environment Agency admitted yesterday.

Describing the growing mood of cynicism as a “tragedy”, Lord Smith warned: “We should not underestimate the damage that has been done by the glee with which the sceptics have seized on the one or two scientific mistakes and used them to undermine the whole consensus about the evidence and the conclusions we need to draw from it.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham on the importance of passing climate [hoax] legislation | Grist

The money to be made in solving the carbon pollution problem can only happen when you price carbon in my view.

Obama to Senate: Don’t give up on climate [scam] bill - The Hill's E2-Wire

President Obama on Wednesday urged the Senate not to shelve climate change legislation, a day after he acknowledged that the chamber may proceed with a package of energy measures that omits limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

“Don’t give up on that,” Obama said in a televised question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats. “I don’t want us to just say the easy way out is for us to just give a bunch of tax credits to clean energy companies.”

With climate legislation flat on its back, Collin Peterson goes in for the kill | Grist

Now that climate legislation is gasping its death rattle, the great champion of agribusiness is on the offensive. If he gets his way, the federal government will be unable to regulate greenhouse gases at all—and the globe will lurch inexorably into a future of climate chaos.

Environmental Journalism in the Greenhouse Era

Environmental journalism in particular is at risk, as demonstrated by the beat’s downsizing over the past few years at major regional papers and on cable networks. CNN’s standalone science and environment team was eliminated (SEJ.org, 1/15/09), and the Weather Channel’s weekly climate program, Forecast Earth, was canceled (WashingtonPost.com, 11/21/08).

Though the New York Times launched a seven-reporter environmental unit in January 2009, designated climate specialist Andrew Revkin (see "NYT Cools on Global Warming," Extra!, 2/10) took a buyout less than a year later as the Times sliced 100 jobs. Revkin says he will continue to contribute to his Times climate blog DotEarth (CJR.org, 12/14/09), but it is not yet known whether his newspaper reporting will be replaced.

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