Do record snowstorms and global warming mesh?
San Diego Union Tribune, OPINION, Feb. 26 – Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, writes that confusing short-term weather events with real changes in long-term global climate is a common mistake. When one looks at all the facts from an objective point of view, it becomes clear to a high statistical certainty that we are already seeing the impacts of global warming. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e26threle.html Powell’s Asia trip: success on Iraq, failure on N. Korea Straits Times (Singapore), Feb. 28 – During his four-day trip to East Asia, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell seemed to have achieved one of his goals: that of ensuring that China would not veto a US-sponsored Iraq resolution in the United Nations Security Council. But he failed to persuade the Chinese and the South Koreans to support the Bush administration’s North Korea strategy. In fact, both China and South Korea urged Mr. Powell t
