Eco-Tories Admit They Got It Wrong On Heathrow Expansion

Chancellor George Osborne is reportedly pushing for a U-turn over plans for a third runway at Heathrow - a move which threatens to inflame coalition tensions and overturn a key manifesto promise.

The Independent on Sunday reports that Mr Osborne has persuaded David Cameron to place expansion at Heathrow "back on the table", claiming it is essential to Britain's economic future.

Daily Kos: This week in science: angry world, angry universe

What does that mean? Climatologist Michael Mann put it like this yesterday, "I'm often getting asked 'the crazy warmth this winter and spring, is it climate change or just weather'? The answer I tell them is that it's both; weather is the random rolls of the dice. But global warming and climate change is loading the dice. And that's part of why we're rolling so many sixes lately."

Iditarod: Mansfield musher did it | Mansfield News Journal | mansfieldnewsjournal.com

One of the challenges this year for all of the mushers was dealing with Alaska's second worst snowfall on record