South America Cold Kills 175 – Where’s The Media? « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

Thanks to the internet and a few media outlets, few and far in between, the inconvenient news of a devastating, protracted cold snap gripping much of south America is coming out.

Farm payments agency still wasting taxpayers' money - Telegraph

The Government agency in charge of handing out cash to farmers spends more than £1,000 processing each claim, according to a damning new report.

Ontario dropping eco fee | Posted | National Post

The Ontario government is dropping its short-lived and controversial eco fee in the face of growing consumer and retailer malcontent.

Environment Minister John Gerretsen will announce on Tuesday that fees attached to thousands of household items will be eliminated, according to government sources.

NPR Mourns Global Cooler-Turned-Global Warmer Scientist

However, according to Holdren, Schneider saw the light and got on the global warming bandwagon – not because the theory of global cooling was proven false, but just because the theories were competing and global warming seemed to have won out.

“In the early 1970s, everybody was in doubt as to the outcome of the competition between the cooling effects of particles and, on the other hand, the warming effect of greenhouse gases,” Holdren said. “And it was only with the emergence of additional data and additional analyses that it became clear that the greenhouse gases were going to win this competition. And at that point, he was one of the first to point out that, in fact, overall, we were heading for a much hotter world.”