Orchardists in for anxious wait - Australia

Vice-president of the NSW Farmers Association Peter Darley said the greatest concern was that cold minimum temperatures in coming days could be accompanied by frosts, which would be destructive for the district’s orchards...“It could mean a total loss of crop.”

Wind gusts, snow batter Orange - Local News - News - General - Central Western Daily

ORANGE has shivered through what the NSW Bureau of Meteorology says could be the city's coldest October day on record.

Coal making comeback | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN

In an age obsessed with global warming and green energy, coal – a combustible rock that has generated heat for humanity for 5,000 years and still conjures up images of black lung disease and the England of Charles Dickens – is staging a defiant comeback.

Condemned by environmentalists who say digging it mars the land and cleaning it is impossible, and blasted by the World Health Organization for contributing to premature deaths, coal supplied 29.4 percent of the planet’s manmade energy last year – the highest level since 1970.
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Cline was so annoyed when his children’s teachers in Palm Beach, Fla., aired Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” that he asked them to distribute literature that showed that climate change may be caused by clusters of sunspots or the Earth wobbling on its axis, not just carbon. When they refused, he complained to school fundraisers.