Obama administration backs oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas | Environment | The Guardian

"The sense we have is that the oil sands would be developed and there is not going to be any change in greenhouse gas emissions with the pipeline or without the pipeline because these oil sands will be developed anyway," [Kerri-Ann Jones, the assistant secretary of state] said.

Area grape crop may fall slightly | California

Starting the grape harvest last week, picking a couple of "patches" of sauvignon blanc, Brad Lange of LangeTwins Winery and Vineyards said the yield was a third less than average.

"So it's very light," he said.

Likely, the wet, cool spring and frost damage in some areas contributed to the light crop set.
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"We had a very lousy bloom this year," Lange said.

States ignore climate change at their own (and our) risk - latimes.com

Leon Trotsky is reputed to have quipped, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Substitute the words "climate change" for "war" and the quote is perfectly suited for the governors of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, all of whom have ridiculed or dismissed the threat of climate change even as their states suffer record-breaking heat and drought.
...The best climate science can say is that a warming globe provides a nurturing context for more intense storms and weather extremes.
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In the states governed by climate-change deniers — and in the nation as a whole, where we are doing too little to address the threat of a warming globe — nature seems to be calling that bet.
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Eugene Linden is the author of "The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations," among other books. In 2005, he helped edit "Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions," a project undertaken by Harvard Medical School and sponsored by the United Nations Development Program and Swiss Re, a worldwide reinsurer.

Eugene Linden - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/07/06 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

Author Eugene Linden discusses his book, "The Winds of Change," and the destruction of past civilizations due to climate change.

Wait, what? So CO2 levels in the past weren't "safe?"?!