Allergy season here with vengeance

"A lot of people who haven't suffered in previous years have come in for the first time in several years with symptoms," he said, noting that the Northeast's sudden change from cold, snowy winter to warm spring has worsened the situation.
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"We do know that climate change and warmer temperatures are allowing trees to pollinate longer than usual," [Angel Waldron, spokeswoman for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation] said. "Although people feel things are worse than ever before, it's actually because of the longer season. It's a longer time to endure."

Spencer Tunick: environmental crusader - Telegraph

In 2009, Tunick revisited the theme of global warming, photographing 700 naked volunteers among the vines in Burgundy. In his second collaboration with Greenpeace, he aimed "to draw attention to the effect climate change is having on French wine production."

The climate in the wine-growing regions is changing. Warmer temperatures mean that the harvest is taking place earlier and a Greenpeace report found that, "wines end up having higher sugar levels and alcohol content while retaining less acids - which means they are unbalanced with an overripe flavour and heavier texture."

WTOP.com - UN climate chief predicts US turnaround on warming

NEW YORK (AP) - Washington's inaction on climate legislation is a "very serious hand brake" on world efforts to combat global warming, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday.

But Christiana Figueres said she believes the U.S. will eventually join the rest of the industrialized world in mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases.

"I don't think it's a permanent state of affairs that the world will be able to live with," she said of the failure of the U.S. Congress to cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming.