An Argument Over Wind - NYTimes.com

The association says that if the tax credit expires, some 17,000 jobs will be eliminated next year and that deliveries of new turbines will spiral to zero.

Ross McKitrick And German Professor In Berlin To Present Mann’s Hockey Stick, GISS Temperature Alterations

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Vineyards escape frost damage | Stuff.co.nz

Omaka-based Windhawk Helicopters' owner Ben Barnett said five helicopters were dispatched to work on vineyards between Waihopai Valley and Spring Creek in the early hours of Wednesday and Thursday.

The company was typically busy with frost protection during the last week of September or the first week of October, so the frosts had come a couple of weeks earlier than usual, he said.