In 20 years, could a chocolate bar cost $100? - CTV News

In Ghana, which borders Ivory Coast and is the No. 2 world cocoa supplier, climate change is jeopardizing crops by allowing pests to thrive, leading to more disease such as "black pod," and a shorter lifespan for cocoa trees.

Merry Christmas! (welcome to the snowiest December on record) | StarTribune.com

Expect More Extreme Winters Thanks To Global Warming, Scientists Say. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. But there is sound, peer-reviewed science to back this up. In fact the last IPCC Climate Report predicted more outbreaks of severe winter weather. Water vapor globally has spiked by at least 4% in recent decades, more moisture (fuel) to support not only summer flooding but major winter storms.

EU Referendum: A matter of priorities

Other than very brief closures during and in the aftermath of storms, however, these episodes are more about money than weather. Shortages of de-icer for instance, are simply a reflection of airport operators' reluctance to invest in bulk storage facilities, and then to tie up money in hold stocks of the fluid. This has left Charles de Gaulle exposed to a strike at the main French factory producing de-icing fluid, forcing the cancellation of half – about 400 – of the flights scheduled for this morning.

The tightness on the purse strings for winter preparations makes an interesting counterpoint, with the spend on other things...

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Mr. Watts operates the most visited blog on climate science in the world, www.wattsupwiththat.com now with over 57 million visits. He has spent 30 years on air in radio and television as a weather forecaster, and still does daily radio broadcasts. In 2007, he founded the surfacestations.org project, which with the help of volunteers nationwide found that only 1 in 10 of the weather stations used for monitoring climate in the USA met the government’s own standards for station siting quality

Anything left to blame on CO2?

Truly, I find many of these claims as much hilarious as disconcerting. They show a widespread tendency to jump aboard the closest bandwagon and to try to explain nearly anything with the latest buzz words or scientific theory. This gullibility can most readily be seen in many news reports, but is also quite commonly found in scientific papers.