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Friday, Oct 19, 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Marine Health Report Card: U.S. Waters In the Gutter With a 'D' WA apple farmers may see boon from bad weather Bad weather hampers Keystone work: TransCanada Five Best Friday Columns Wyoming goes through 3rd driest water year DFW Weather Will Warm Up For The Weekend Steven Amstrup says it's not too late to save polar bears – and ourselves Tornadoes, severe storms swat Southeast; 7 hurt

Marine Health Report Card: U.S. Waters In the Gutter With a 'D'  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 02:39 PM PDT To try and stem the tide of ocean abuse around the worldâ€"including overfishing, plastic pollution, the impacts of climate change and acidificationâ€"some of the smartest minds in the science, conservation and business worlds have over the last five years combined forces to come up with a way to encourage cleaning up some of the worst of the ocean’s problems. Full Story	Top
WA apple farmers may see boon from bad weather  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 12:30 PM PDT First, warm spring weather in the Northeast and Midwest tricked apple trees into budding earlier. Then an untimely frost damaged the delicate blossoms. Full Story	Top
Bad weather hampers Keystone work: TransCanada  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 08:08 AM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Friday that poor weather was impeding efforts to inspect a section of its idled Canada-to-United States oil pipeline, but the company stuck to its estimate for a weekend restart for the major export conduit. TransCanada, the country's largest pipeline company, shut down the 590,000 barrel a day Keystone oil pipeline on Wednesday after an in-line inspection tool detected what the company referred to as a "small anomaly" on the pipe. It said it expected the line would be down for three days. ... Full Story	Top
Five Best Friday Columns  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 07:43 AM PDT David Brooks in The New York Times on the sad story of environmentalism Before Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, curbing global warming was a bipartisan issue. Gore politicized it, killing its bipartisan chances. Then Obama's green jobs grants seemed wasteful. "All in all, the once bright green future is looking grimmer. Green tech is decidedly less glamorous, tarnished by political and technological disappointments." Full Story	Top
Wyoming goes through 3rd driest water year  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 07:24 AM PDT Wyoming just completed its third driest year in 118 years and saw its driest March through September period ever, the National Weather Service said Thursday. Full Story	Top
DFW Weather Will Warm Up For The Weekend  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 06:29 AM PDT Full Story	Top
Steven Amstrup says it's not too late to save polar bears – and ourselves  Friday, Oct 19, 2012 05:00 AM PDT With apologies to "The Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell, there is no tipping point â€" at least, not when it comes to global warming and sea ice. Full Story	Top
Tornadoes, severe storms swat Southeast; 7 hurt  Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 08:41 PM PDT At least four tornadoes were part of the storm system that raked northern and central Mississippi on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, injuring at least seven people, the National Weather Service said. Full Story	Top

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