BlueOregon: Bailey: Why I'm for Bradbury

As one of the first people trained by Al Gore to give his climate change presentation, Bill has talked with both rural and urban communities about the challenge and the opportunity global warming presents us. He has given over 250 of these presentations across Oregon. He has done so in a way that talks not just about renewable energy, but also about local economies, supporting Oregon farms and producers, and keeping Oregon dollars local. Oregon needs a Governor who is unafraid to challenge assumptions...

Book Review: Solar - WSJ.com

And Mr. McEwan does indeed offer a record of our recent worries about the weather and the high-stakes science that stoked them. But the poor man didn't trust his suspicion that climate-change activism is not nearly as certain and virtuous as it claims to be—that the real story includes place-holders and science jobbers looking for a paycheck, backed up the do-gooders and the world-changers looking for a religion. Mr. McEwan took the correctness of global warming as read, ignoring his main character's early skepticism, and lashed up one his typical patchwork plots to make things come out as it should...

UK 'Climategate' Inquiry Largely Clears Scientists - NYTimes.com

In their report, the committee said that, as far as it was able to ascertain, ''the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact,'' adding that nothing in the more than 1,000 stolen e-mails, or the controversy kicked up by their publication, challenged scientific consensus that ''global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity.''

Mexico loses 100,000 bags of coffee to cold By Reuters

Freezing temperatures in December and January, peak picking months in Mexico's harvest which runs from October to around March, damaged high-altitude coffee in the states of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Puebla and Veracruz.

Some of the potential harvest was completely lost to severe weather while other beans were so cold-damaged that they were unfit for export, producers said.

[Flashback: Is Mexico near the tip of South America?]: Climate change threatens Brazil's top coffee crop - USATODAY.com

BRASILIA, Brazil — The future for Brazil's mighty farm sector could be grim, with hotter temperatures pushing crops past its borders, uphill into the Andes and toward the tip of South America.