PhillyBurbs.com:  Homeless woman freezes to death

Paulette Wilkie, a schizophrenic woman who became homeless in the last year, died Sunday in Morrisville from exposure, officials said.

Morrisville Police Chief Jack Jones said her death was not suspicious. Bucks County Coroner Dr. Joseph Campbell said the cause was hypothermia.

Climate change shifts the course of the river between Congo and Uganda | Environment | The Guardian

John Magrath, a climate change researcher with Oxfam, believes the plight of people such as Mwesige shows how vulnerable much of the population in the region is to any change in the climate. "For generations, they have relied on fairly set weather patterns and an environment that has served them well, but now they are undergoing great change and heightened risks to their health, security and welfare."
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"Climatic changes have been very evident here in Uganda," says Kabaseke. "Especially, we get longer droughts than we expect and when we have the wet seasons they are wetter than we expect – causing rivers to burst their banks, causing landslides and very many natural disasters."

Lee County escapes freeze, but Naples sets a record low | news-press.com | The News-Press

Naples saw a low of 39, breaking a record set back in 1984 when this date saw a low of 41.

Finland Fairs Badly in Climate Change Survey | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

Finland continues to receive poor marks in an international climate change survey. Currently Finland stands in thirty-first position in the comparative survey released at the Cancun climate change conference on Tuesday.

Topping the poll are Brazil, Sweden and Norway. However, no states were ranked in first, second or even third place as no nation was considered to be doing enough to combat climate change.

Climate: Hoping for Evolution in the Global Approach to Warming at Cancun - Ecocentric - TIME.com

There are far fewer people here, considerably less attention and significantly lowered expectations—which paradoxically, may help negotiators actually get something meaningful done.

Great Lakes snow piles up in N.Y., Pa. - Weather - TODAYshow.com

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bands of snow blasting off the Great Lakes buried one western New York town under four feet of snow and caused a pileup that left motorists stranded for hours on a stretch of Interstate 80 in northwestern Pennsylvania.
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In Randolph, N.Y., a rural town 50 miles south of Buffalo, motorists were banned from driving Tuesday after the area received 40 inches officially, with some seeing even more.