Govt censured on climate change programs

The federal government has been censured by the Senate for failing to adequately deliver climate change programs.

Bitter winter could force Mongolia to open up mining sector | resourceINTELLIGENCE

The recent snowstorms, known locally as the zud, are said to be even worse than the winter ten years ago, when scores of stranded nomads died along with 11 million heads of livestock.

“My sister still lives in the east as a herder and every day she wakes and finds more animals dead,” said Dambadarjaa Enebish, a 60-year-old refugee, one of thousands of nomads who fled to Ulan Bator during the harsh winter of 1999-2000.

With at least two million head of livestock already believed to have perished, conditions don’t come much tougher even by the standards of the harsh central Asian steppe. The Red Cross said it could be spring before the full extent of the damage is known.

“It is a very bad crisis,” Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatariin Batbold told Reuters. “The cold we are experiencing now is a record low for the last 37 years and 90 percent of the country is covered in snow.”
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Thousands of orphans and vagrants descend through manholes into the capital’s crumbling Soviet-era hot-water system each winter to seek refuge from the bitter cold. They are often pelted with stones by city regulators trying to push them out of the underground labyrinth.

Harsh winter adds to heavy Guard workload  - State News - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -

When the most recent snowstorm crushed the northern part of West Virginia a little more than a week ago, nearly 800 citizen soldiers were activated as part of a state-declared emergency. Some still are in the Northern and Eastern panhandles, where cleanup continues.

It marks the third time in just two months that the Guard has been called in to assist in a weather-related emergency.

Willy Nilly Silly: Hendrik Hertzberg : The New Yorker

Is it really possible that Will is unfamiliar with the difference between weather and climate? And that he is unaware that erratic extremes of weather—such as brutal droughts (Australia), violent hurricanes (Katrina), “historic blizzards” (Washington, D.C.), and historic glacier melts (Alaska)—have long been predicted by “global warming alarm groups,” i.e., climate scientists?