Snow falls on Memorial Day parade | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com

VIRGINIA CITY -- Visitors to Virginia City got a taste of Northern Nevada's fickle weather Saturday as snow fell on the city's annual Memorial Day parade.

Bloomberg and Clinton Team Up to Fight Climate Change - NYTimes.com

They are taking on an issue — climate change — that may well shape the world’s economic and social future for decades to come.

Mr. Bloomberg’s billions of dollars and Mr. Clinton’s billions of friends are a potent combination, but can this unlikely power coupling make an impact in stemming rising seas or cooling the planet?

Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax | Australian Climate Madness

Cate Blanchett, who travels everywhere by first class air travel or private jet, and is worth millions of dollars, lectures ordinary Australians struggling to pay their energy bills on saying "Yes" to a tax that will make their lives even more difficult and achieve precisely nothing for the climate, whether in Australia or globally. Hmm, that will go down well!

Quadrant Online - The Global Climate Standoff

Considering China’s exploding GDP, emissions will go on escalating, possibly at a slower rate but possibly not. That’s well short of the IPCC’s roadmap to salvation.

This is perfectly clear to the sino-sensitive Americans. They’re not about to “take the lead” any time soon. Interest in climate change has ebbed away since Al Gore’s glory days, thanks to Climategate, some unusually cold winters and a fragile economy. There’s no mood to cede even more economic sovereignty to China. Unless he finishes the 2012 campaign ruling out unilateral emission cuts, Obama can kiss his second term goodbye. Expect the GCS to be with us for a while yet. And here? We’re being told a new tax will save the planet. Madness.