Colorado: More snow this weekend?

Experts say cold weather in the forecast this weekend could help bring down high waters, as it would reduce the rate of snow melting off mountain peaks.

Dave Barjenbruch, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, said cold air should be moving into the county by tonight.

Snow could begin accumulating on high peaks, continuing Saturday and possibly accumulating in towns by Saturday night.

Climate: UN talks head into final day < German news | Expatica Germany

A new round of UN talks entered its final day on Friday amid hopes that a proposed negotiation blueprint for a post-2012 climate treaty would survive anger and suspicions lingering from last December's Copenhagen summit.

The document is being gingerly presented as a summary of the many -- and often hugely contradictory -- views in the 194-nation arena about what the much-trumpeted pact should contain.

Pelosi, Hoyer Bristle at Talk of Cap-and-Trade - Roll Call

...while Democrats were eager to talk about plans for advancing energy legislation, one issue they wanted to avoid talking about was cap-and-trade.

Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Thwart Carbon Limits - NYTimes.com

The near-even division among lawmakers showed that a 60-vote supermajority on climate change legislation remains elusive.
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“Climate change is happening,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who is a sponsoring a main climate change bill with Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. “The science is convincing and the current pattern of energy consumption is just making a bad problem worse.”