China to Remain Net Corn Importer, Merrill Says - BusinessWeek

“I simply don’t see any way that China has upside to corn output in 2010,” Bush said at a briefing, citing delays in sowing caused by cold weather, flooding in some growing regions and drought in the northeast part of the country.

Radio New Zealand News - Record low temperatures over for now - NIWA

NIWA says a period of record low temperatures around many parts of the country is at an end - for the meantime.

Taumarunui had an air temperature on Monday of minus 6.8 degrees - its coldest since records began there.

As Reid Prepares Energy Bill, Emissions Cap Appears Unlikely « The Washington Independent

Environmental groups are working feverishly behind the scenes to ensure that the climate and energy bill being cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) includes a carbon cap on the power sector, but sources closely following the debate on and off Capitol Hill say there is simply not enough support for such a proposal to pass the Senate this year.
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But a list of provisions expected to be included in the final energy and climate bill, provided to TWI by a senior Senate source closely involved in the debate, does not include any cap on carbon emissions. And a Senate Democratic aide also closely tied to discussions on the bill echoes that point, saying the votes don’t exist to pass even a scaled-down utility-only bill.

Climategate and the Big Green Lie - Politics - The Atlantic

The economic burdens of mitigating climate change will not be shouldered until a sufficient number of voters believe the problem is real, serious, and pressing. Restoring confidence in climate science has to come first. That, in turn, means trusting voters with all of the doubts and unanswered questions -- with inconvenient data as well as data that confirm the story -- instead of misleading them (unintentionally, of course) into believing that everything is cut and dried. The inquiries could have started that process. They have further delayed it.