North Texas' 100 degree streak ends – USATODAY.com

DALLAS (AP) – The Dallas-Fort Worth area's streak of 100-degree days is over — just two shy of the record set in 1980.

STEWARD: Global warming is melting Al Gore's brain - Washington Times

For Mr. Gore, any notion that our world is one of constant change is bull. Well, Mr. Gore, with 18 or 20 natural climate drivers constantly at work, there is no way Earth can have a stable climate. There have been no flat lines on any temperature curve in the reconstructions of 500 million years of climate-CO2 relationships. How about the sun or major ocean currents that experience changing cycles? Well, is that just bull, too? Is anything that conflicts with the belief that man is the primary cause of climate change just more bull? My, what a dirty mouth our former veep has.

With all of Mr. Gore’s voiced confidence in his hypothesis, why won’t he debate the issue if he is certain that “the science is settled”? Here’s why: Fifteen of his major points in his 2006 film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” have been shown to be false, misleading or gross exaggerations. As long as many blindly follow him despite all of this, his best strategy is to remain off the debate circuit.

Malaysia: All govt offices to keep air-cond temperature at 24ºC from now

“It will be tabled in Parliament soon and we are looking at 2013 as the implementation date for the private sector.

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Are Advancing - NYTimes.com

Environmentally minded consumers who hope to shave a few dollars from their electric bills by using C.F.L.’s can take solace in the fact that some groups consider C.F.L.’s greener than the bulbs they replace.