New York Times Columnist Gail Collins goes full medieval witchcraft! Says ‘a carbon tax/fee is the key to controlling climate change’ — & keeping Arctic ice!

Collins urges passage of a carbon tax to 'control climate change', save Artic ice and stop Hurricanes from hitting New Jersey! Collins: 'That, or just letting the next generation worry about whether the Jersey Shore is going to wind up lapping Trenton...Don’t you think the children and grandchildren would appreciate being allowed to hang onto the Arctic ice cap?'

How the government could end this long winter at a stroke | John Vidal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

We can certainly expect higher food prices. Just as the "year with no summer" was an agricultural disaster, 2013 is shaping to be one of the worst in northern Europe in decades. The British livestock industry is in crisis with tens of thousands of cattle and sheep having died in the cold. Cereal farmers have not recovered from last year's deluges and winter crops and vegetables lie rotting in sodden, frozen, or snowbound fields...it should immediately appoint a secretary of state for cold

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Wheat Climbs for a Third Day as Cold Weather Threatens Harvests - Businessweek

Wheat rose for a third day in Chicago, narrowing this quarter’s drop, as frost may have damaged the U.S. winter crop and as cold weather in Europe slows plant development there, threating to lower yields.