As if "the cash in one's pocket disintegrates" when the "beautiful NC sun" don't shine: Gov. Pat McCrory said Wednesday he’d like to improve salaries for all of the state’s educators eventually, including veteran teachers, community college instructors and university faculty. But he said that will depend on the state’s future revenue picture. Immediately, he…

Ignoring the coal ash pond spill, two things struck me: North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory went on two national talk shows Sunday to talk about climate change and the winter storms that have iced over the state in the past two weeks. … Instead of focusing on global warming, McCrory said people should concentrate on keeping…

I like to post cold weather events under the facetious title "Global warming my a$$," to point out the ludicrousness (word?) of using a single weather data point as counter-evidence of a trend.  Well, here's my equally facetious attempt to use a single data point as evidence of a trend.  Just in the interest of…

Eleanor Barkhorn: … A new map from Reddit user Alexandr Trubetskoy (a.k.a. atrubetskoy) is sure to stoke this regional competition. Using data "taken from hundreds of various points from user responses…interpolated using NOAA's average annual snowfall days map," Trubetskoy made a map showing how much snow it typically takes to close schools in the U.S. and Canada. Notice…

Lots of busted pipes around here: Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The country may be warming up from the polar vortex, but the bone-chilling cold, snow and ice…