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Brrr .... Baby, the cold weather is not over yet! | The New Age Online

Carl Loots, a forecaster from the South African Weather Services, said the temperature in Johannesburg plummeted below freezing point yesterday.

“Gauteng reached a low of -1°C yesterday,” said Loots.

Loots said despite predictions that the weather would improve, Gauteng will remain icy until the beginning of next week.

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Rodney Harrex, general manager for the UK and Northern Europe at Tourism Australia, suggested that Brits had a "long-standing love affair" with the land down under, largely due to its warm climate and unique landscape.

CultureLab: Saving the planet: not just for pansies

About four years ago [director Peter Byck] realised that Gore's brand of apocalyptic environmentalism would only go so far. It might appeal to "whiney liberals" like himself, but half of America - the country responsible for a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions - was repelled by its self-flagellating pessimism.

And so he set out to make an optimistic movie about climate change. What he found surprised him: many of the people who are taking action are muscular patriots or even, as he puts it, "knuckle dragging conservatives", the kind of people who are not supposed to give a rat's ass about CO2 or global warming.