How the drought is changing business - USATODAY.com

"The Corn Belt has gone a long time without a major drought," [Frank Harper, president of the Kansas Livestock Association] says. "I think we are just in a cyclical weather pattern here. We don't know how long this will last."

Hunt, the Kentucky construction company owner, says he has looked at weather data for his area dating to the 1930s and thinks that a roughly 20-year cycle of hot summers has returned.

New breed of ranchers shapes a sustainable West - CSMonitor.com

Savory wrote a paper a few years ago showing how more effective grass management could help address global warming. He suggested that increasing the ground cover on just 0.5 percent of the world's grasslands could store 720 gigatons of carbon dioxide – more than the annual emissions sent into the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

David Hone - Climate Change Advisor for Shell » Blog Archive » The bureaucracy in Europe blinks

Some business groups remain opposed to intervention, but these now appear to be the ones that have always opposed action to reduce CO2 emissions. While they claim to support the ETS, they strongly argue the case that the market should be left to its own devices. The real agenda is often very different. With the high levels of free allocation that have existed during Phases I and II, the businesses involved are more than happy with the status quo which requires little more than administrative compliance (it certainly doesn’t require emissions reduction through projects and investment).

Global warming could benefit potato industry - YouTube

Climate change could result in a positive outcome for the potato industry and possibly lead to potatoes becoming one of the top staple crops in the world, says University of Pretoria (UP) Potato Pathology Programme manager Dr Jacquie van der Waals.