Cold Weather Sapping Revenue From Nurseries, Landscapers - News Story - KXLY Spokane

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- The cold wet spring is washing out a lot of business for landscapers and nurseries in North Idaho, though a few warm days helps heat up business and owners are crossing their fingers the sunshine will last.

Bear melts for World Environment Day | G-Online, the best of green

“I was very careful to also speak to the sea ice, polar bear and polar environment scientists – the likes of Peter Wadhams at Cambridge University and Andrew Derocher, who is probably the world’s leading polar bear scientist – and explain my project to them, and they all gave it huge blessing saying it’s science in 3D.”

Food For Thought As The Future Heats Up : TreeHugger

The longer the delay in climate policy action by national governments, the greater the likelihood of severe global financial shock when the needed actions are taken.
... Some say the extraordinarily deep snow pack of 2011 is inconsistent with predicted climate change effects; while others say it is perfectly consistent. Glenn Beck: where are you when we need a simple answer from a real expert?

The devil in the climate detail | Climate Spectator

Towards the end a dial-in press conference after the release of his 2011 Climate Change update on Tuesday, Professor Ross Garnaut made a confession: as soon as his commitment to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee is over he’d like to take a step away from the climate change debate that has so enveloped his professional life over the last four years.
...When asked about a report prepared by US investment bank Morgan Stanley that apparently suggested electricity supplies could be threatened by a carbon price, Garnaut’s response was as blunt as he had been on the subject of sceptical science: “It wasn’t the sort of rigorous analysis that would influence economically literate people.”