Cold snap will put more farmers in distress, says charity

THE Prince’s Countryside Fund has warned that the current cold snap and late arrival of spring will add to the economic woes of farmers already under pressure from a year of bad weather.

The charity has authorised £219,000 from its emergency relief fund to go to farming help organisations during the Easter period.

Snow and cold weather is contributing to a shortage of forage and forcing farmers to buy in expensive feed to see their livestock through.

EU energy chief calls for no new taxes as talks begin on 2030 climate targets | Environment | guardian.co.uk

There should be no new taxes on energy within the EU, and current taxes should not be raised, if prices are to be kept competitive with rivals fuelled by cheap shale gas in the US, the EU's energy chief has told the Guardian.

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The global warming circus act, by early 2013, in one of the northern hemisphere's coldest winters for 50 years is drifting like a lost ship ever further towards its inevitable fate of simply being dumped in the memory hole of Fake Crises. Global warming? What was that?

Weather Forecast: Record lows set in Orlando and Daytona Beach

ORLANDO -- Winter-like conditions have set new record low temperatures in Orlando and Daytona Beach and tied Melbourne's record low.

In Orlando an overnight low of 40 degrees was set, breaking the 1979 low of 42 degrees. In Melbourne it got down to a record low 39 degrees. The previous record low was 43 degrees in 2006. Daytona Beach got down to 39 degrees, tying a 2006 record low.