Mexico Tries to Boost Quality Coffee Output - Food Industry News

Mexico's 2009/10 coffee crop is seen at 4.4 million 60-kg bags, down from the previous cycle after suffering from a cold snap near the end of last year.

Kerry's lonely push on climate change

He led near-weekly meetings this spring and summer to win over Senate Democrats.
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The months of work didn't move many of his colleagues.

Science journalists in Africa urged to [promote climate hoax]

Addressing a media workshop in Nairobi Tuesday, Dr. Urama said: "Journalists should be the pressure groups that will make us address problems facing society," he told journalists in Nairobi.
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Chairman of the African Federation of Science Journalists AFSJ) Diran Onifade urged journalists to exercise caution when reporting scientific facts, to maintain the integrity of research and to avoid confusing members of the public.

" We cannot balance opinion of a scientist with a skeptic," he told journalists.

Utilities spend $68M [pushing global warming hoax legislation] | NJ.com

Every month over the past two years, Chief Executive Officer Ralph Izzo of the utility Public Service Enterprise Group traveled to Washington from Newark to meet with more than 50 senators and advocate for climate-change legislation. His efforts may have been in vain.

Izzo is among the army of lobbyists, CEOs, and advertising experts deployed by utility companies to push the Senate to pass a cap-and-trade bill that would create a system for power companies to buy and sell pollution rights.

...the utility industry spent almost $68 million on lobbying in just the first three months of this year, more than any other sector except pharmaceuticals...
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Utility companies say they doubt the legislation will be enacted anytime soon. They have little expectation Kerry will be successful this fall and predicted Republican gains in the elections would make a climate bill unlikely to pass when the next Congress reconvenes in January.

"The odds are still very long," said David Brown, senior vice president for Federal Government Affairs at the Chicago- based utility Exelon Corp., who estimates he’s held hundreds of meetings with senators and staff on the issue. "Everybody’s just exhausted."

Democratic donor gives $5 million to [pro-hoax group] | Sacramento Bee

Thomas Steyer, a San Francisco hedge fund manager and a big backer of Democratic candidates, will donate $5 million to a group opposing the ballot measure to roll back California's landmark climate change law.
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With Steyer's donation, the No on 23 committee has raised more than $7 million. Proponents of a rollback collected more than $3 million.

"Proposition 23 really boils down to one thing," Steyer said in a news release. "Do we want California to continue moving forward as a leader in a clean energy economy, including continuing to create new jobs, new economic development and new investment, or do we want to allow two Texas-based oil companies … to take our state backward and see the clean energy jobs, business and investment in our state go offshore to (a) place like China?"   [Where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?]