Two feet of snow for Montana

1 TO 2 FEET OF SNOW EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER ACCUMULATIONS ON NORTH AND EAST FACING SLOPES.

Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom | OnEarth Magazine

Driving the population surge in North Dakota and in other energy-producing states are jobs.

NASA hit for sloppy hyping of global warming | Washington Examiner

Several former top NASA executives and scientists, including Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle managers and astronauts, are accusing the agency of sloppy and imprecise science in promoting global warming alarms and are also charging NASA’s chief scientist with hypocrisy for warning of a climate change catastrophe.

“We are not trying to stifle discourse, but undisciplined commentary, lacking in precision, is wholly inappropriate when NASA’s name and reputation is attached,” said 41 former NASA officials in a letter to agency boss Charles Bolden.

Bonn climate talks end in discord and disappointment | Environment | guardian.co.uk

participants told the Guardian they were downbeat, disappointed and frustrated that the decision to work on a new treaty – reached after marathon late-running talks last December in Durban – was being questioned.

...Tove Maria Ryding, coordinator for climate policy at Greenpeace International, said: "Here in Bonn we've clearly seen that the climate crisis is not caused by lack of options and solutions, but lack of political action. It's absurd to watch governments sit and point fingers and fight like little kids while the scientists explain about the terrifying impacts of climate change and the fact that we have all the technology we need to solve the problem while creating new green jobs."

Apes, moles and shrews can't keep pace with climate change - environmentalresearchweb

Killer heat projected in Minneapolis by end of century | StarTribune.com

By the end of the century, the Twin Cities area could see eight times as many deaths annually due to extreme heat as it does now, according to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

The projected increase -- from about 14 per year to 121 by century's end -- would be among the steepest experienced by 40 major metro areas. The authors said that is partly because extremely oppressive heat waves would be more of a shock to northern residents' systems.

Climate of the Twin Cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

average annual temperature of 45.4 at the Minneapolis St. Paul International airport