Climate change 'will boost British farmers’ - Telegraph

Climate change will be good for British farming, according to Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, with exotic crops such as melons already
thriving...In a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, she said that, although problems such as droughts would become more frequent, warmer weather would also mean a longer growing season and less frost damage, allowing the introduction of crops such as peaches, maize and sunflowers. Already 10,000 melons are expected to be harvested in Kent this year.

Race to keep the elderly warm and well (From Northwich Guardian)

Age UK launched the campaign last year in response to the needless deaths of more than 200 older people per day in the cold weather.

The aim is to stop unnecessary suffering and preventable winter deaths.

Winter a tough time for Fla. tropical fish farmers - Boston.com

"We have tremendous challenges with the cold," said Drawdy, who has owned the central Florida farm with her family for 40 years. "Our prayer was that we wouldn't face that this year. We were just really starting to recover."

Drawdy is referring to 2010, when many Florida ornamental fish farmers lost between 80 and 100 percent of their stock. That year, temperatures stayed below 50 for 11 days straight in January and then another cold snap in December struck the area.

"The last three winters in a row it seems like we have been just clobbered," said David Boozer, executive director of the Florida Tropical Fish Farms Association, a group that counts 231 farmers as members.

Report: No Global Climate Deal If Obama Loses Presidential Election

Prospects for striking a binding global climate deal by 2015 are probably toast if President Obama loses in November.