Lake Tahoe snow report: More than 2 1/2 feet of fresh powder at several Tahoe resorts - San Francisco skiing | Examiner.com

Forget about spring skiing for a while. Lake Tahoe ski resorts are in full winter mode this weekend with storms pummeling the Sierra range with snow.

Sugar Bowl, Alpine Meadows and Boreal si resorts are reporting more than 2½ feet of snow on Friday and all the Tahoe resorts receive at least a foot of snow.

Flashback: Energy Secretary: Climate change could wipe out Calif. farming - CSMonitor.com

Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned that, if climate change continues unabated, California's agriculture could vanish by the end of the century.
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Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who ran the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining the Obama administration, said that warming temperatures could eliminate up to 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack, which provides water to many of the state's 76,000 farms.