Local News | Blizzard warning for Spokane, snow across Wash. | Seattle Times Newspaper

People in most of Eastern Washington were told Monday to prepare for a rare blizzard as the first severe storm of the winter blasted through the state, though weather officials said it was too early to tell if the rough weather would affect Thanksgiving holiday travel later in the week.
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Heavy snow - up to 10 inches in Spokane - was expected until midmorning Tuesday, along with north winds of 20 to 25 mph and stronger gusts. The snow, wind, subzero temperatures and a wind chill in the minus 20s will make travel extremely dangerous, the service said in its blizzard warning.

Survival of culture to depend on bold decisions, says Al Gore - People's Daily Online

Ahead of the Cancun summit on climate change, Gore expressed skepticism on the outcome, challenging politicians from across the globe to "prove that political will is a renewable energy source."

Subsidies for plug-in cars: A scam for big business | San Francisco Examiner

This is the formula for profit in the Bush-Obama era of bailouts, handouts and national energy policy: Dress in green, hire lobbyists and wait for the profits.

YouTube - Richard Lindzen on the State of Climate Science

Atmospheric physicist, MIT Professor of Meteorology and former IPCC lead author Richard S. Lindzen joins us to discuss the state of the climate change debate, the lack of evidence for catastrophic warming and what the science really tells us.

Energy Industry Strikes Out on Its Own - WSJ.com

A group of utility executives who once lobbied Congress to cap greenhouse-gas emissions say they are now pressing ahead with their own efforts to clean up the industry.

A year after climategate, applying lessons learned - Capital Weather Gang

The coverage reflected several converging factors. First, journalists love conflict, and are about as attracted to stories that involve the potential toppling of conventional wisdom as a weather geek is to Doppler radar imagery. Most reporters were ill-equipped to read and interpret the approximately 1,000 emails that had been released and analyze them for their scientific significance.