Gore story goes mainstream - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com

The story of Al Gore’s alleged unwanted sexual advances toward a Portland, Ore., masseuse, which had been simmering since the National Enquirer first published the allegations last week, broke into the mainstream news cycle Friday after the Portland police announced they would reopen their investigation.

Anderson Cooper did a segment on the story on CNN Thursday night. By Friday, it was all over network television newscasts, while while the Oregonian had a front-page mea culpa by the Portland police chief saying his department had mishandled the investigation when it first surfaced in 2006.

[Here's an idea: Let's blow more on the climate hoax than we spend on education]: Bob Wigley says green funding 'can be much better spent' - Telegraph

His report proposes the abolition of nine low-carbon quangos and the creation of a green investment bank to help promote financing for renewable energy projects.
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But he says he's become passionate about what needs to be done to green up Britain, saying that the £50bn a year the nation needs to spend if it is to meet its carbon reduction targets is 25pc more than its annual education budget and 25pc more than the yearly NHS wage bill.

"The total estimated cost of meeting our current climate change carbon reduction targets is between £800bn and £1 trillion," he says. "There's really been nothing like this since the post-World War Two reconstruction programme."

Washington state: Cool weather keeps this year’s cherry crop estimates lower than last

WENATCHEE — Cool weather and a light set mean this year’s cherry crop isn’t likely to mirror last year’s record — and bank-breaking — crop.

In fact, early estimates of a 18 million-box crop have been readjusted to 13 million, according to Roger Pepperl, marketing director at Stemilt Growers.

'Climategate', 'Amazongate': when will the truth be told? - Telegraph

Critical evidence from climate change sceptics continues to be ignored by the political and scientific establishments, says Christopher Booker
...The most obvious feature of the four official inquiries into the "Climategate" emails (a fifth report is due this week from Sir Muir Russell), is that not one has engaged with the central point at issue. This is the evidence from the emails and other documents confirming that the key IPCC scientists involved had been manipulating data to show temperatures having lately shot up to levels unknown in the past 1,000 years.