[Life is short: Why not spend it trying to prevent hurricanes by carrying a lemon tree into and out of your house?]: Pa. woman touts 'locavore' lifestyle

She also is working to solve some of her more elusive food goals, including coddling a lemon tree (carrying it outside when the weather's good and inside when it isn't) and making her own ketchup.

State College, PA - Mann: 'Climategate' Designed To Distract Public, Policymakers

"Climategate," the recent affair involving climate scientists' stolen e-mail correspondence, is a "fake scandal."

He believes it was a "well-organized, well-funded and highly orchestrated (effort) ... to cherry-pick, misinterpret and control" personal e-mail messages, Mann told StateCollege.com this month.   [Well-organized by who?  Were there strategy meetings beforehand? Who funded this effort, how much money was allegedly spent on this effort, and how, specifically, does Mann imagine that the money was spent?  If Mann can't answer these questions, I'm going to have to conclude that he is, as usual, just making things up.]

"It was really, many of us feel [there's a consensus!], a campaign by the climate-change-denial industry to distract the public and distract policymakers at a time when they should have been focused on doing something to confront the challenges posed by climate change," he said.
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Mann, speaking with StateCollege.com, said the timing of the e-mails' release, in November, was not surprising. "We have seen these sorts of attacks before, always timed to coincide with a public, prominent event or a key summit, he said.

UK minister says climate experts too preachy | Reuters

(Reuters) - Climate change scientists and politicians must be "more realistic and less preachy" if they are to persuade a sometimes sceptical public to support the urgent action needed to tackle global warming, climate change minister Greg Barker said Wednesday.
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While several inquiries have cleared the UK scientists of wrongdoing and upheld the quality of their research, the damage has already been done, according to Britain's chief scientific advisor John Beddington.

"There is absolutely no doubt that there is a problem with public confidence on climate science," he said. "The public's perception of climate change has changed."
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A BBC poll in February found only a fifth of people thought climate change was "established as largely manmade."

[Global warming hero Schwarzenegger wins the approval of 22 percent of California voters]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California voters give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the lowest rating for a sitting governor in more than 50 years, according to a new Field Poll.

In a survey released Wednesday, just 22 percent of voters said they approve of Schwarzenegger's performance, while 70 percent disapprove.