Strange May weather in the Midi-Pyrenees - 05 May 2010

Yesterday saw a very unseasonable chill in the air and heavy snow cross some parts of the Midi-Pyrenees region.

Future Temperatures Could Exceed Human Livability : Planetsave

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that warming by the end of this century could reach seven degrees Fahrenheit, Huber believes that an eventual warming of 25 degrees is feasible.

Disaster Dims Hope of Energy Bill Compromise - WSJ.com

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) said legislation can't move forward without three "pillars": expanded oil and gas exploration, more nuclear power and a price on carbon-emissions in exchange for the first two.

"At least temporarily, this has knocked one of the legs of the stool off to the side, so my guess is that nothing proceeds at the moment," Mr. Kyl said.

Mr. Nelson agreed, saying, "It makes it more difficult to get 60 votes," the number to break a Senate filibuster. "You're not going to get offshore drilling in an energy bill."

Rudd rumbled as man of no convictions, no courage and no achievements | Adelaide Now

...Rudd has ditched even policies many voters had assumed he believed in with all his heart.

The most obvious example is Rudd's decision last week to postpone until at least 2013 the emissions trading scheme he'd once touted as his solution to apocalyptic global warming, grandiosely hyped by him as "the great moral and economic issue of our time".

The greatest cause one day; junked the next.