Extreme cold kills hundreds of cattle; thousands at risk in Paraguay and Chile — MercoPress

Meantime in Chile, Marcos Peede, president of the Austral Breeders and Farmers Organization warned that 100.000 cattle in the south could starve or die of hypothermia because of the persistent extreme cold weather.

“We have 100.000 head of cattle, which includes bovines, sheep and horses exposed to vital risk. There are areas that can’t be reached with fodder and we have reports of deaths of animals”, said Peede.

Freezing temperatures, polar gusts and the greatest snow fall in three decades are threatening the Aysen area which the Chilean government had declared under agriculture emergency.

Peruvians shiver through record cold winter | Earth Times News

Lima - Peruvians are enduring the coldest winter in nearly five decades.

Lima, typically blessed with a semitropical climate, recorded a chilly 8.8 degrees Celsius, the La Republica newspaper reported Thursday after the capital hit the record low a day earlier.

The average temperature for the winter months in Lima is 18.2 degrees Celsius.

Senator Kerry Says Democrats May Take Up Broad Climate Plan (Transcript) - Bloomberg

HUNT: - wasn’t it your own party that cut the legs out from Kerry/Lieberman?

KERRY: We have several Republicans who have indicated the possibility. Look, are we supposed to do this all alone?
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But I have to tell you, this is not dead. We are going to continue to work. It may well be that after the election - if that is what happens - I mean we will continue to try over the next weeks, but if it is after the election, it may well be that some members are free and liberated and feeling that they can take a risk or do something. Or, you know, the whole political landscape may have changed in some way. I don’t know.

Unexpected consquence of climate change: animals getting horny | Grist

That's right. A hotter planet means hotter marmot sex. But these rodents won't be the only ones having all the fun. Other delightful creatures who may see their sex lives improving include jellyfish (swarms of them!) and ticks (swarms of them and all the diseases they carry).

A future of sexy jellies and succsexfully tick-transferred diseases -- we can hardly wait!

US Senate drops bill to cap carbon emissions | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The failure to pass sweeping energy legislation is likely to weaken the US negotiating position heading into the international climate negotiations in Mexico at the end of the year. 
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"This is not going to take close to that long," [Kerry] said. "I am absolutely confident that as the American people make their voices heard, and as our colleagues go home and listen to them we're going to grow in our ability to be able to pass this."