Snowstorm strikes southern Plains

Forecasters said gusts of up to 40 mph could create drifts of blowing snow and blizzard conditions in what the National Weather Service called “a potentially life-threatening" storm.
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Forecasters said snow accumulations will average 4 to 8 inches over much of northern, central and eastern Oklahoma, with up to a foot in some areas northeast of Oklahoma City. In Kansas, 6 to 12 inches of snow were possible.

The case for mandatory composting

Today, San Francisco collects 500 tons of food waste a day, picking up from 225,000 homes and apartments and 7,000 businesses. Scofflaws can be punished with fines from $100 to $1,000.

Why don't we impose a mandatory daily workout at 6am and a national mandatory bedtime of 8pm?

The Hockey Schtick: Hansen: Urban Heat Island Effect is 0.06°C

From a 3/19/10 draft of a NASA GISS paper, Hansen & Co. find the urban heat island effect in the US to be a mere 0.06°C temperature anomaly over the entire span of 1900-2009

WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees - Telegraph

The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions, writes Christopher Booker .

Snowballs, Ice Ages and CO2 | The Resilient Earth

Meanwhile, the link between radical climate change and CO2 remains fuzzy at best. What we do know is that to rebound from a Snowball Earth took CO2 levels 350 times those of today. Those who claim that human activity will trigger a sudden warming or a sudden cooling are just blowing hot air.