Friday, May 04, 2012

Leading GOPer chastises right wing group for comparing climate believers to mass murderers - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

I asked Sensenbrenner’s spokesperson, Amanda Infield, if he’s still participating. She emails:

Congressman Sensenbrenner will not participate in the upcoming Climate Change Conference if the Heartland Institute decides to continue this ad campaign. We have contacted the Heartland Institute and voiced these same concerns to them.

Group pulls plug on billboard linking global warming believers to terrorists - The Washington Post

Ken Caldeira, a prominent climate scientist at Stanford University, said, “Putting up these billboards is an act of desperation. They are unable to argue based on facts.”

Frost plays havoc with Brant’s cash crops | Brantford-Brant | News | Brantford Expositor

“It's not looking good for my apples,” said Tom Pate, who runs Brantwood Farm on Powerline Road, as he perused one field holding some of his total orchard of 5,000 trees on Thursday.

“I'd say the frost has affected 80% of my trees, and I'll probably lose 50% to 60% in yields this year,” he said.

“It's pretty grim.”

Soaker of a Thursday breaks several rainfall records | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

THE OLYMPIA HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS ONLY 50 DEGREES...13 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS BREAKS THE PREVIOUS RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 51 DEGREES FOR THE DAY. MANY OTHER CLIMATE SITES WERE ONLY A DEGREE OR TWO OFF THEIR RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY.

Climate scepticism threatens people, planet - IPCC chief - AlertNet

 BANGKOK (AlertNet) - Continuing scepticism about climate change in some parts of the world threatens the planet and the people on it, according to Rajendra K. Pachauri, chief of the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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