The Canadian Press: US judge orders Obama administration to clarify polar bears' Bush-era 'endangered' status

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wants the Interior Department to clarify a decision by the administration of former President George W. Bush that polar bears were merely threatened rather than in imminent danger of extinction.

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"Climate hawk" sounds like someone who'd nuke Iran to cool the planet (which, though nuts, would work): http://bit.ly/afDTsb

2010-2011 winter forecast released - UPI.com

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Forecasters say the 2010-2011 winter will be colder and snowier across the northern tier of U.S. states and abnormally warm elsewhere.

Australia’s NSW State Drought-Free After Nine Years - BusinessWeek

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s New South Wales state declared it was free of drought for the first time in nine years after above-average rainfall this year boosted wheat crops and provided water for cotton and rice planting.

Pop Went the Climate Bubble - HUMAN EVENTS

Climategate was the straw that broke the alarmists’ back. The rapid-fire succession of glacier-gate, Amazon-gate and Pachauri-gate left global warming alarmism reeling. It now seems that the deniers are those who insist that Climategate and its progeny have not smashed the public confidence in the 50-year-old climate alarmism hypothesis.

But there is one lesson in physical science that the New York Times and its fellow alarmists will learn when they wake up from their stupor of denial — it takes a lot less time to pop a bubble that it does to create one.