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Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 11:49 AM PDT
Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: WHY IT MATTERS: Global Warming Northern Calif. walloped by early wintry weather National Journal Climate-Change Reporting to Be Featured in FRONTLINE Special on PBS Impoverished Niger creates fund to fight desert spread

WHY IT MATTERS: Global Warming  Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 11:49 AM PDT WHY IT MATTERS: Despite the weather, climate change gets little mention in the campaign Full Story	Top
Northern Calif. walloped by early wintry weather  Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 05:19 AM PDT A storm from the Gulf of Alaska stalled for a second day over Northern California, blanketing mountains with snow, spawning a tornado near the state capital and drenching fans and players at the deciding seventh game of the National League Championship Series. Full Story	Top
National Journal Climate-Change Reporting to Be Featured in FRONTLINE Special on PBS  Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 05:08 AM PDT Tonight PBS's award-winning documentary series FRONTLINE will air "Climate of Doubt," a special that features the climate-change reporting of National Journal energy correspondent Coral Davenport. "Climate of Doubt" focuses on how climate change skeptics mobilized to undermine public acceptance of a scientific consensus about global warming. Davenport has written frequently and in-depth about the topic - including the December 2011 National Journal cover story "Heads in the Sand" - and the documentary includes her reporting as well as an interview with her. ... Full Story	Top
Impoverished Niger creates fund to fight desert spread  Monday, Oct 22, 2012 10:07 PM PDT NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger said on Monday it will launch a $110 million project to counter the impact of rapid expansion of deserts and increasingly unpredictable rains in one of the world's poorest countries. "The programme aims to test strategies that will help us integrate climate risk and adapt climate change into our national planning," Abdou Souley, spokesman for Niger's planning and community development ministry, said. The five-year programme aims to improve community use of water resources and alter herding and wood harvesting patterns to protect vegetation in the West African state. ... Full Story	Top

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