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Inditex First-Quarter Profit Misses Estimates Amid Cold Weather

ARTEIXO, Spain — Inditex SA, the world’s biggest clothing retailer, reported first-quarter profit that missed estimates as prolonged cold weather across much of Europe delayed spring sales at the owner of the Zara brand.

Twitter / STWorg: Wielicki: $50 return on each ...

Wielicki: $50 return on each $1 invested in advanced climate obs system. But I am not sure of assumptions--check slides? #climatechapman

Julia Gillard and Arnold Schwarzenegger join forces on climate change - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"What the Industrial Revolution and the Information Technology Revolution have shown is that the people in regions which lead these transformations prosper the most and the soonest. It is the same with the Clean Energy Revolution."

The Pause In Global Warming - Art  Horn - Energy TribuneEnergy Tribune

Perhaps “The Pause” will give humanity a chance to literally pause and question the man made global warming theory.

The brilliant physics lecturer Dr. Richard Feynman famously said “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” The current trend in rapidly increasing carbon dioxide in the air and the pause in global warming is having a lot to say about the “beautiful theory” of man made global warming.

Costly Damage to Farmland in North and East Iceland

Farmers in North and East Iceland are facing severe frost damage to their farmland after a long period of harsh winter conditions. Thousands of hectares of farmland are in ruins and farmers are expected to spend hundreds of millions of ISK to recultivate their land. The estimated damage is worse than that caused by the blizzard in North Iceland in September last fall, and that of recent volcanic eruptions.