[Lack of global warming and North Dakota flooding]: Report

The report also pinpoints the reasons the Red River Valley flooded: High soil moisture at freeze-up in late 2008, and a heavy snowpack in the United States was made worse by cold weather and thick, stubborn ice on the river and in culverts and ditches.

Flashback: Obama: North Dakota Flooding Is Because Of Global Warming

He said, “I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating. ... If you look at the flooding that’s going on right now in North Dakota, and you say to yourself, ‘If you see an increase of 2 degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there,’ that indicates the degree to which we have to take this seriously.”

Fervor evident at N.Y. health town hall - Victoria McGrane - POLITICO.com

Health care, at least here in this Republican-leaning upstate New York district, is proving far more contentious than the late June climate change vote. Massa voted against the cap-and-trade bill, telling POLITICO that calls to his office split 80-20 against it.

Idaho: Valley to break record low high Friday

Friday's high is expected to top out at only 67 degrees. That will obliterate the record low high for the date kept in Boise of 74 degrees set in 1976.

"It's very rare to get anything that cold for a high temperature in early August," Colin said. Earlier this week the area's low temperatures were warmer than Friday's expected high.

The American Spectator : Clinton's Hard Labor

Al Gore was not sufficiently glamorous for the role, Kim Jong-Il felt, according to the Washington Post: "The administration had wanted to send former vice president Al Gore to North Korea instead of Clinton; Gore is a co-founder of Current TV, which employs the journalists who were detained. But North Korea officials hinted that they wanted an envoy of Clinton's stature, sources said."