ScienceShot: Global Warming at Your Doorstep - ScienceNOW

the amount of carbon rising from the soil of residential lawns is significantly greater than that from the soil of agricultural land—in this case, irrigated fields of corn

Katharine Hayhoe: Preaching climate to the unconverted

Today, I get probably 10 times more hate mail from Christians than I get from atheists...[Hey Katharine:  What's your sample size?  When people allegedly send you hate mail, what percent of them identify themselves as either Christians or atheists?] When I was working with the city of Chicago in 2007 and 2008, the city asked us—the climate scientists—to meet with representatives from each city department to figure out how climate change would affect Chicago. It was only through talking to each other that we realized that climate change could affect the city in all these ways that none of us had ever imagined.

How a public school in Queens went vegetarian | Grist

We salute the genius who managed to get 400 kids into tofu and spinach wraps.

Big freeze livestock death toll hits 100,000 - 5/2/2013 - UK

The death toll for stock killed during the freezing winter and early spring weather has hit 100,000 and is still rising, the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo) has said.

Historic snow and cold strike Rockies and Upper Midwest

Even though it is now May, the brutal, never-ending winter of 2012-13 obstinately refuses to relent, and has dumped heaps of snow from Denver to southern Minnesota. Single-day record May snowfalls have likely fallen in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

The late spring blast of winter has also produced record cold in the region.