Weather Talk: Too soon to say La Niña could bring harsh winter | Fargo, ND

...there is a good chance that over the next few months, sea surface temperatures across much of the tropical Pacific region will cool and tropical trade winds will strengthen.
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The fall and winter season is always volatile and hard to predict at such a long range, so it is premature to just assume that we are in for a fourth consecutive hard winter.

Ask Umbra comes up empty on enviro-friendly gas stations | Grist

I want to commend you for driving infrequently. If we all drove a little less it could have a tremendous impact. Meatless Mondays are lowering people's carbon footprints. May I suggest Carless Tuesdays?

Climate warming: the present Original Sin?

Need for a world authority

The two original sins of colonising capitalism and iniquitous climate warming pose problems the world as a whole must solve.

Journalists should not forget climate change, say experts | Deutsche Welle | 20.06.2010

Hedegaard, herself a former television journalist, said while it would be wrong for the media to ignore climate skepticism altogether, it is also wrong to uncritically accept skepticism in the name of balance.

"The easiest thing in the world is to invite a guest who says that the planet is flat, and somebody who says, no, it's round. And the reporter's job there is not just to hold the microphone and say, 'OK, A says it's flat, the other one says it's round,'" she said.