Texas: Stripe rust hitting area wheat crop

April 22, 2010 - Texas wheat producers can blame the weather for the occurance of stripe rust on this year's crop, according to a Texas A&M University pathology expert
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With temperatures ranging in the 30s through 50s Fahrenheit, this can be ideal for the development of stripe rust, especially on susceptible varieties of wheat that have little tolerance to this fungal pathogen. Stripe rust thrives under humid and cold conditions.

Poll: Questions raised on global warming - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- Americans and Britons are more skeptical about climate change than Canadians, a global poll indicated.
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The online survey indicated 58 percent of Canadians believe global warming is a fact and caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities. Forty-one percent of Americans surveyed and 38 percent of Britons said they believed global warming is fact.

ANALYSIS-US global warming bill shows signs of life

Maggie Fox, head of the Alliance for Climate Protection, founded in 2006 by former Vice President Al Gore, said last weekend's developments were a "dramatic bump in the road."
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Her group is flying 40 people from several states to Washington to put pressure on senators to act and Fox said she thought media events set for Monday will be rescheduled to roll out a climate change bill in a dramatic way.

How Cap And Trade Was 'Trashed' : NPR

Judy Greenwald, a vice president with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, argues that cap and trade was too arcane a term for non-wonks to grasp and so was easily "trashed" in ways that she says are inaccurate.

Twitter / David Roberts

As Larry Shapiro says, the glaring fact in the background here is that there's no social movement of any strength behind climate.

Twitter / David Roberts

Greens can bitch at Graham all they want, but this issue is decided entirely by elites for a reason. There's no credible threat.