Ezra Klein - Climate change bill in a tough spot

Right now, The Washington Post has a story about hemp on the front page, but nothing about the American Power Act.
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The political situation for climate change looks genuinely dire. Kerry and Lieberman lost their alliance with Lindsey Graham, they're competing with financial regulation and jobs and Greece, the election is muscling its way into the headlines and they're getting no backup from the White House. President Obama has not used the BP spill to advance the cause, and today, one day after Kerry and Lieberman released their bill, he's in Buffalo talking jobs, not climate. So they don't have the votes, the bipartisan coalition or the bully pulpit.

Transcript: Lieberman, Kerry on “John King, USA” May 12, 2010 - The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com

JOHN KING, HOST, "JOHN KING USA": Let me start with this premise. I called around today to the Democratic leadership, to the Republican leadership. And senior people on both sides say admirable effort, but dead on arrival this year.

The Press Association: Gardeners struggling to save crops

The unseasonal cold snap has left amateur and professional gardeners struggling to save their crops ahead of West London's Chelsea Garden Show, experts said.

Comments On The Scientifically Flawed Study “Researchers Find Future Temperatures Could Exceed Livable Limits” By Sherwood and Huber 2010 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The Sherwood and Huber paper is just a model sensitivity study, not a verifiable prediction. Moreover, not only is it scientifically flawed, but the dissemination of a press release illusrates that this is really not a science study. The funding of such a study by the National Science Foundation (whose predictions cannot be verified) illustrates another failure by the NSF to properly support climate science.