Some climate scientists, in a shift, link weather to global warming - latimes.com

Still, most climatologists say science can draw no clear link between climate change and specific weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or heat waves.

"We're living in a warmer world," said William Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. "But to say that the hurricanes are more intense, that the tornadoes are more frequent, that the droughts are longer, that the floods are more serious, the forest fires are larger and more frequent — I'm not there."

"Sometimes it's hotter, sometimes it's colder, sometimes it's drier, sometimes it's wetter," added Tapio Schneider, an environmental engineering professor at Caltech. "Not all of that is climate change."

Vestas Cuts U.S. Jobs by 20 Percent Awaiting Tax Credit Decision - Bloomberg

Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, has cut about a fifth of its U.S. jobs as it waits for lawmakers to decide whether to extend a tax credit for the industry.

Climate group pushes Obama campaign to pull pro-coal ad - The Hill's E2-Wire

A climate group is petitioning the Obama campaign to remove a pro-coal TV advertisement it says does not reflect the president’s record on the fossil fuel.

Bob Kerrey changes stance on cap and trade - Omaha.com

Democrat Bob Kerrey, who once argued that lawmakers had a “moral” duty to support an anti-pollution proposal known as cap and trade, says he's had a change of heart.

Kerrey says he came to realize over the past several months — after talking with Nebraska businesses and reading about Europe's troubled cap-and-trade program — that the controversial plan to limit carbon emissions was “not the answer.”