California governor signs cap-and-trade revenue bills | Reuters

"There's a broad array of possible things to spend the funds on," Mary Nichols, chair of the ARB told reporters last week, citing energy efficiency, forest protection and high-speed rail as possible recipients.

The second bill signed by Brown over the weekend requires that 25 percent of all the auction revenue go toward economically disadvantaged communities, which tend to suffer from worse air quality than wealthier neighborhoods.

New satellite data reveals sea-level rise - CNN.com

While some regions have seen sea-level rises of 12 mm a year, others have actually seen decreases of about 12 mm a year.

We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

[15-minute video] This is a discussion of the causes of James Hansen’s extreme heat events, Al Gore’s dirty weather and Kevin Trenberth’s climate disasters.

5-month forecast: A whole lot of snow

“A bitter cold winter in the Northeast and Midwest is always good for warm and sunny Southwest Florida,” said Tamara Pigott, executive director for Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau.
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Last winter, the Naples, Marco Island Everglades Convention & Visitors Bureau used Chicago’s winter chill to its advantage, posting outdoor digital boards that showed the Naples area’s temperature in real time, compared with that in the Windy City’s. Wert said it’s probable that temperature display will return to Chicago this winter, as well as sunny beach-oriented commercials for New York City-area trains that have video monitors on seat backs.   [Shouldn't the boards be put up in Naples, so that people will be encouraged to escape Naples' kidney-stone-inducing winter warmth by flying to Chicago?]