A look at the calendar reveals that it's late January, but to look around New York, you'd think otherwise. Today has been an absolutely nuts weather day with a warm thunderstorm followed by an amazing sunset inspiring seemingly everybody in the city to tweet pictures.
Sixteen scientists took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal Friday to argue that there is “no compelling scientific argument” for “drastic actions on global warming.”
Electricity and natural gas utility operator Dominion Resources Inc. said Friday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent on mild winter weather and weaker margins on power generation.
SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was the first mid-winter fuel delivery to western Alaska, capping a year of pioneering shipping as oil and gas development and climate change increase traffic along northern trade routes sought by centuries of Arctic explorers. ...