Idaho: Weather dampens crop growth

Little, chairman of the Idaho Barley Commission, said he has some poor looking grain stands. Even his pasture grass is shorter than normal.

"I think this is the shortest grass I've seen," he said. "It's not a lack of moisture; it's a lack of heat units."

EPA Climate Fight: Senate Votes on Who Should Regulate Greenhouse Gases - ABC News

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, came to the Senate floor this morning armed with props -- blown-up pictures of oil-soaked birds in the Gulf of Mexico. She said that while the images are difficult to look at, they are a direct consequence of the United States' addiction to carbon-emitting fuels.

"For someone to come to this floor and say carbon [dioxide] -- too much carbon [dioxide] is not dangerous, then I'm sorry, we're going to have to look at these pictures, even though we don't want to," said Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment Committee.

Massive forest carbon scam alleged in Liberia

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf established a commission investigate a proposed forest carbon credit deal between the West African nation's Forest Development Authority (FDA) and UK-based Carbon Harvesting Corporation, reports Global Witness, an NGO that originally raised concerns about the scheme, which aimed to secure around a fifth of Liberia's total forest area — 400,000 hectares — in a forest carbon concession. Police in London arrested Mike Foster, CEO of Carbon Harvesting Corporation, last week.

Cap-and-trade Con

What explains this suicidal cap-and-trade agenda? “Alarmists look on abundant energy as a peril to be controlled,” said Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “It was never about climate. The environmental agenda seeks to use the state to create scarcity as a means to exert the state’s authority over your lives,” he told Heartland conference attendees in May.