Wheat harvest runs behind normal - July 25, 2011

WALLA WALLA – Cold weather makes some things hard to start and the 2011 wheat harvest is no exception. Cool temperatures, along with wet spring weather, has pushed back harvest locally and regionally, but the extra rain may boost yields in some areas, according to the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin newspaper.

In Walla Walla County, “we’re about two weeks behind right now,” said Dave Gordon, general manager for Northwest Grain Growers.

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In late November 2009, the rapid acceleration of “climategate” within the microblogosphere should have forewarned environmentalists about the narrative’s imminent break as a mainstream news story. With the high-profile Copenhagen Summit just around the corner, “climategate” was a well positioned media anchor. If environmental groups had been monitoring this emergent discourse,they may have been better prepared to respond to the ensuing controversy.

Fox News Mocks Security Threat To Small Islands Posed By Climate Change | Media Matters for America

ERIC BOLLING: The U.N. and tree huggers are kind of like the Mickey Mouse Club for liberals so they feel better about themselves, meanwhile at our taxpayer dime. That's the problem. Neither one work.
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GUTFELD: How can you build an entire U.N. initiative on a science that everybody is debating anyway?

BOB BECKEL: Nobody is debating. Flat earth people are debating it.

GUTFELD: Do you believe that small islands are disappearing?

BECKEL: Yes.

GUTFELD: You do. Show me a small island that has disappeared.

BECKEL: If it disappeared I couldn't show it to you, could I?