Icy hazards persist through US, deep into South

Snowfall was heaviest in Minnesota and parts of South Dakota, where blowing winds piled up drifts too big for snowplow drivers to clear. In Illinois, six snowplows were involved in accidents.

Nowhere was it colder than in Bismarck, N.D., where wind chills hit 52 below zero Thursday and the temperature reached 14 below. Wind chills were still near 50 below in the Dakotas for a second day.

Al Gore to give keynote at Phoenix education conference - Hot Off The Press (release)

(PHOENIX, Dec. 14, 2009) – The best and brightest innovators and innovations of the education world will soon gather at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Scottsdale, Arizona-based EDU Research Group, the EduRG Conference 2010 will be held February 27-28, 2010, providing a venue for students, teachers, businesses and technology to work together for the betterment of higher education.

Coldest spell in Wiltshire mocks at Al Gore - dnaindia.com

What I meant was that just as I was beginning to believe the propaganda I read day after day for global warming, the coldest spell for 50 years hits England where I am — stranded in Dairy Cottage in a valley in Wiltshire, the home of Vidia Naipaul where I was visiting for two days before waking up on the third with a foot of snow on the window sills, the valet around white and the roads clogged to impassability.

News Hounds: Fox Nation "Asks" Is (Al Gore) A Joke Now?

That was all the Fox Nation folks needed for a top-of-the-page headline, "Gore Mocked Over Freezing Temps: Is He A Joke Now?"

I don't think any serious-minded person thinks Gore is a joke. But Fox Nation's claim to impartiality and its supposed commitment to mutual respect and national unity is.

Al Gore to Speak at ALA Midwinter - 1/8/2010 - School Library Journal

Former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore will deliver the Arthur Curley Memorial lecture as part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) midwinter meeting in Boston next month.

Gore, considered an expert on climate change, is the author of Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, (2009) An Inconvenient Truth (2007), The Assault of Reason (2007, all Viking,) and Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Houghton, 1980).
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Gore will speak at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, January. 16 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.