Over 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered | Environment | The Guardian

The paper adds: "These estimates are based on immediate threat, and do not consider further development of destructive factors - including climate disruption."

New approach on climate change urged

Prof McKibbin's paper, published by the Lowy Institute think-tank, sets out a roadmap which does not rely on the UN or on targets.

Instead, heavy-polluting countries like Australia, the US and China would agree to set a similar carbon price, to rise over time.

Snow removal cost up 400 percent last winter - The Franklin News Post

The cost of snow removal in Rocky Mount this past winter was nearly 400 percent higher than anticipated.

Heat wave evidence of climate change?

And the heat in the East ― what should that tell us? Not a lot. Weather in a given time and place says very little about overall climate trends, as even the alarmists remind us when we have a particularly cold winter.

While a Time magazine writer is obviously correct that warming overall should give us more instances of very hot weather and fewer instances of very cold weather, it also happens to be the case that the hottest recorded year in U.S. history does not fit into human-caused warming theory. It was in 1934.