Climate science a ‘contact sport’ / LJWorld.com

“It is more like hockey with no rules and no refs and you want to sharpen the blade and hit someone in the head,” [Climatologist Stephen Schneider] said in an interview Monday morning before speaking to a full crowd at the Gridiron Room in Kansas University’s Burge Union.

A professor at Stanford University, Schneider is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its reports on the Earth’s warming. He also published a report in the early 1970s that predicted the Earth was going to enter a cooling period because of human-made pollutants.

"Unprecedented" deaths of wild goats spark investigation | UK

The herd, which is said to have been established on Lough Ree's Inch-McDermott Island for years, seems to have lost up to three-quarters of its subjects through the mysterious deaths.

Although inspectors are currently awaiting test results from one of the live wild goats which was captured and taken for treatment, it is thought that one of the main reasons behind the spate of expirations could be the cold snap which gripped the area during the winter.

Chilly high of 50 degrees today is record low high for Portland, frosty mornings on the way

Portland's average high temperature for May 4 is 64 degrees, but today's high of 50 degrees was the coldest high temperature for the date, breaking the old record of 52 degrees for a record low high temperature set back in 1950. The all-time record low high temperature for Portland is 49 degrees.

Twitter / [David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts suggests that carbon dioxide caused flooding in Tennessee]

Death toll in Tenn. flooding rises to 18 http://is.gd/bU7eu Golly, the climate sure is acting weird, huh? Dang "natural cycles."