Friday, March 04, 2011

The Murdoch Empire Is Now Carbon Neutral - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Over to you MSDNC and CNN. Let’s see if you can step up like your enemy, Rupert
Swinford man died of hypothermia in big freeze
Lessons will have to be learned from the deaths that occurred in Mayo during the Arctic spell of weather last winter when temperatures fell as low as minus 17 degrees Celsius. 'Wrap up' was the message from the coroner for east Mayo, Mr. Pat O'Connor, at an inquest in Swinford into the death of a local man who died during the cold spell last December.
Liberty County farm cook dies of hypothermia in unheated tool shed :: The Republic
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Liberty County officials say a 43-year-old farm cook died of hypothermia after the car he was driving got stuck in the snow and he sought shelter in an unheated tool shed.
Minn. Rep. Collin Peterson’s crusade against climate policy rages on | Grist
The sad saga of climate legislation under Obama -- its harrowing ride through Congress and final collapse -- features many villains. For me, the most maddening isn't some Tea Party ideologue railing against the "climate conspiracy." Rather, it's a powerful Democrat named Collin Peterson, rep from Minnesota, the House's ranking Agriculture Committee member, and the man I once deemed the corn jihadi.

Peterson's opposition to climate policy doesn't stem from any insane denialist creed. Indeed, he once even welcomed global warming -- on the theory that it would help "my farmers ... grow more corn."

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