[Cold weather]: Kenyan tea and coffee crops may be lower than expected

COLD weather has slowed Kenyan tea and coffee production, forcing officials in east Africa's largest economy to lower their expectations for output in the vital sector, a top government official said yesterday.

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To top it off, we ran an online poll last week noting that as we are now over 270 days since the last time we had a high temperature at 75 or warmer, are you loving it?

Cap-and-trade and energy politics: A Salon debate - Global warming - Salon.com

Steve Everley: With the unemployment rate near 10 percent, creating jobs should be the first consideration of our elected leaders, but instead President Obama and his liberal allies in Congress are insisting on enacting a national energy tax that will kill jobs and drive American businesses overseas.

The vehicle for imposing this vast new energy tax system is cap-and-trade, a scheme where the government arbitrarily determines how much carbon each company can emit, chooses which companies get free permits to emit carbon and which companies have to pay for them, and then puts unelected bureaucrats in charge of regulating the whole system.

The result is higher energy costs, which virtually every economist will tell you are necessary for cap-and-trade to be effective – higher prices are necessary to prevent consumers from using what the left considers too much energy. President Obama even bragged that under his ideal cap-and-trade plan, electricity prices would "necessarily skyrocket."