[You mean it wasn't my cell phone or even my cell phone charger?!]: Honeybee Killer Found by Army and Entomologists - NYTimes.com

A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have apparently interacted to cause the problem, according to a paper by Army scientists in Maryland and bee experts in Montana in the online science journal PLoS One.

Prepare for onslaught of snow and ice, businesses warned | BigHospitality.co.uk

Small hospitality businesses are being warned to prepare now for an onslaught of snow and ice later this year, as forecasters predict yet another freezing winter ahead.

Farmers, grape growers warned of cold snap | New Zealand

Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said yesterday he estimated farmers lost $50 million due to snow, icy rain and chilling winds last month.

North Carolina: Record low tied

ASHEVILLE — Fall — and a taste of winter — were definitely in the air Tuesday night. The low of 33 tied a 36-year-old record low temperature.

Bjorn Lomborg agrees with Al Gore, sort of - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

“I believe he's a closet skeptic who doesn't have the courage to admit it,” said Marc Morano, former communications director of the climate skeptic website "Climate Depot" and a former spokesman for the Senate’s lead climate skeptic, James Inhofe (R-Okla.).

“He likes to essentially portray himself as the man in the middle when he's clearly attacked both the United Nation's and Al Gore’s extreme claims,” Morano added.

World Business Forum Day 2: Al Gore Comes Out Swinging for Sustainable Capitalism | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

In response to those recently exposed purveyors of disinformation and others like them, who claim that it is unfathomable that mankind could actually have that much impact on the planet, he offered the following three observations that differentiate our present era from times past

1- The world population has quadrupled in the past 100 years

2- The amount of power available to humans has increased 1 million-fold

3-Changes in both capitalism & democracy
...“It's important to change the light bulbs,” says Gore, “but it's more important to change the laws."
...Citing an African proverb, he said, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Then, after a beat, he added, "We need to go far, fast."