[Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on]: Premiers sidestep climate change, disappoint green groups

REGINA — The "Showdown in Regina" that environmental groups had hoped for failed to materialize Friday, as Canada's premiers ended three days of meetings by sidestepping contentious aspects of the climate change debate.

[Maybe because windmills aren't very valuable?]: No one ever went to war over a windmill - Telegraph Blogs

If it came to a choice, surely most people would rather have a few turbines littering the Scottish highlands, solar panels on public buildings and nuclear stations along the coasts than scrap with China or Russia for fuel.

ExxonMobil: Green Company of the Year - Forbes.com

Oil from algae? Just a sideshow, Exxon's real thrust into green energy is a big bet on natural gas.

Unseasonable temperatures have hot weather lovers just chilling out -- GazetteXtra

Attendance in July at Rockport Pool, Lions Beach and both of the city's wading pools "was down quite a bit—at least 30 percent—because of the cool, rainy weather," said Bonnie Davis, recreation director.

So far, the summer of 2009 has been one of the chilliest in memory, but that's expected to change this weekend.

Janesville in June and July had only 25 days when the mercury climbed to 80 or higher—the fewest such days since at least 1948, according to Gazette weather records.

Not so Hot August Nights: Temperatures cool through out the region | rgj.com | Reno Gazette-Journal

On Thursday Reno tied the record for lowest high temperature. The 68 degrees also matches maximum temperatures in 1891 and 1999.