Summer's Cold Weather Could Predict Extreme Snow in the Months Ahead

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Some have called 2009 "The Year without Summer." Instead of spending days at the beach soaking in the sun, many have been wearing long sleeves and jeans. Could snow in August or September be the final chapter in this unpredictable season? While it's highly unlikely that Jack Frost will arrive for Labor Day, meteorologists believe these trends are a preview to a particularly snowy winter ahead.

A word about global warming "skeptics" : The Island of Doubt

[Adam Sacks] A word here about the skeptics, with whom we are also obsessed: Forget about them. They may appear to have control of the public discussion, but they are babbling into the abyss. Our enemy is us. By our own unwillingness to face the profound implications of climate change--that we have to reject civilization as currently conceived and come up with something completely different--we are doing far more damage to the cause of preserving life on earth than the deniers could ever do.

[Maybe Democrats should trumpet this endorsement at townhall meetings?]:  Castro supports Obama's domestic agenda

Castro cited Obama's efforts on health care, reviving the economy, closing tax havens, immigration reform and climate change.

UN scientist backs '350' target for CO2 reduction - Yahoo! News

PARIS (AFP) – The UN's top climate scientist has, for the first time, backed ambitious goals for slashing greenhouse gas emissions that many climate negotiators say are beyond reach.

"As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), I cannot take a position because we do not make recommendations," Pachauri told AFP when asked if he supported poorer nations calling for atmospheric CO2 levels to be held below 350 parts per million (ppm).

"But as a human being I am fully supportive of that goal. What is happening, and what is likely to happen, convinces me that the world must be really ambitious and very determined at moving toward a 350 target," he said by telephone from New Delhi.