David Suzuki: All Mining Must Stop | NoFrakkingConsensus

According to Canada’s most prominent environmentalist, the mining of gold, silver, copper and other minerals poses an unacceptable risk to the planet’s atmosphere.

North Carolina Senate Committee votes to repeal renewable energy mandate | JunkScience.com

An ill wind blows for rent-seeking.

Global carbon dioxide levels near worrisome milestone : Nature News & Comment

Near the moonscape summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, an infrared analyser will soon make history. Sometime in the next month, it is expected to record a daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of more than 400 parts per million (p.p.m.), a value not reached at this key surveillance point for a few million years....researchers have been monitoring the gas there since 1958

Coldest May Temperature Since 1917 | Real Science

The current temperature in Fort Collins, Colorado is -9C. It will probably get colder before dawn, but is already the second coldest May temperature in Fort Collins history – beaten only by May 5, 1917 when it was -11C.

We also have a foot of snow on the ground, and are having the snowiest spring on record.

US Headed For The Coldest Spring On Record | Real Science

At the two-thirds mark for meteorological spring, 2013 was the second coldest spring on record – slightly warmer than 1975.