U.S. Fast Start Climate [Hoax] Financing in Fiscal Year 2010

The United States is now partnering with other contributor nations to provide what is known as “fast start” funding for climate-related activities approaching $30 billion during 2010–2012.

Since Copenhagen, the United States has pressed forward to implement a significant increase in our international climate finance contribution, beginning with the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget. The U.S. contribution to fast start financing in FY 2010 is a total of $1.7 billion, consisting of $1.3 billion of Congressionally appropriated assistance and $400 million of development finance and export credit. Direct climate assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of State increased from $316 million in FY 2009 to approximately $1 billion in FY 2010, and these agencies' direct adaptation assistance increased from $24 million in FY 2009 to $244 million in FY 2010.

Palm Beach Post : Rain on Sunday will usher in yet another cold snap for Palm Beach County

"It looks like it's not going to be anything like it was here before," Paul Allen of R.C. Hatton Farms in Pahokee said Thursday.

He did not want to say how badly the previous freezes slammed his operation, which grows sweet corn, green beans, celery and sugar cane, except to say, "we didn't get it as bad as others."

He's prepared to bring in helicopters to protect what's left.

And with the heart of the winter still ahead, he said, "we just need to pray for everybody that's still got crops, and those that are replanting, and all farmers, that this winter eases up. We all need a break. It's the fourth year in a row."

Carbon sequestration may be limited by earthquake hazard | Energy content from Western Farm Press

# Pumping carbon dioxide into the ground for long-term storage – known as carbon sequestration – could trigger small earthquakes that might breach the storage system, allowing the gas back into the atmosphere.
# That hazard, combined with a need for thousands of injection sites around the globe, may keep sequestration from being as feasible on a large scale as some have hoped.