Carbon [swindle] traders pessimistic over global expansion - 03 Mar 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Carbon traders are increasingly sceptical that major new cap-and-trade schemes will emerge over the next five years, although they remain bullish over the prospects for existing carbon trading schemes such as the European emissions trading scheme (ETS).
...there was growing scepticism that the UN will deliver a binding international climate change treaty at the end of this year at its summit in Cancun with only 37 per cent of respondents predicting a deal will be reached, a fall on the 59 per cent who were confident a deal would be delivered at last year's Copenhagen Summit.

USDA research chief concerned about “safety of organic food” | Grist

Would NIFA be funding research for organic ag?

Beachy’s reply stunned me—and it also, I think, stunned his chief counsel. “I’m concerned about the safety of organic food,” he said. Come again? “I’m concerned about the issue of microbial contamination with organic….”

At this point, Goldfarb cut him off...

Weather leaves Atlantans fed up  | ajc.com

Heating demand has been 36 percent higher than last year, said David Stooksbury, state climatologist at the University of Georgia. Air and road travel grinds to a halt. And you can't even count on getting tomatoes on your burger at Wendy's (at least not at downtown's CNN Center).

Just try convincing Atlantans this hasn't been the longest, coldest, most harsh winter on record.

World Falls Prey to Panic Over the Killer Wave That Never Came

CALLER: Hey, I got a comment about the so-called tsunami that hit. I was watching the news the other day and they had a NOAA expert on there trying to explain this tsunami. Well, you had a sound bite last week that said NOAA was the gold standard of climate in the world, but they couldn't predict what happens on the same day or a day in the future?