Headline Earth host Katie Felinger, with the help from Fitness Magazine, offers some tips when you head out to the grocery store that will give you greener eating habits in addition to helping reduce (in a very, very small way) greenhouse gas emissions.

My comment on the video......

I am a big fan of peaches during the summer and I did not realize that they were #1 on the list of fruits with the most amount of chemical (pesticide) residue left on their skin. I love to eat fruit, but a lot of the organic stuff is very expensive as Katie noted, and with everything else going up in price (food, gas which went up 10 cents just today to 3.50, insurance, college tuition, health care etc.....) it makes it very tough to switch and pay the extra. I have a small garden, but my time to care for it is limited and the growing season here in central PA is not that long so I guess I will have to be hand washing those juicy peaches a little bit more than I used to come this summer. Brett

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) just came out with their March climate report for the U.S. and the world. Here is a sampling of what it says........

--The average global temperature (land/ocean surface combined) for the month of March was 0.71 degrees celsius (1.28 F) above normal (against the 20th century mean) making it the 2nd warmest on record for the month of March (using 129 years of record keeping).

If you don't like those numbers then take a look at a few of the other sources for March 2008 global temperature measurement..........

RSS/MSU data

Global +0.08 c (More detail right here, courtesy of Anthony Watts)
Northern Hemisphere +0.47 c
Southern Hemisphere -0.33 c

UAH/MSU data

Global +0.10 c
Northern Hemisphere +0.43 c
Southern Hemisphere -0.24 c

GISS data

Global +0.67 c

Back to the NCDC March highlights.......

--The global (land only) surface temperature was the warmest on record! The main reason for this
is the fact that much of the Asian Continent (we are talking a major chunk of land here) was well above normal for the month of March.

--March snow cover extent on the Eurasian Continent was the lowest on record.

--The global ocean surface was 13th warmest on record, again thanks tp the warmth around Eurasia (Sorry, nice try La Nina!)

U.S. Highlights from the NCDC.......

--The average temperature for the U.S. was 0.22 Celsius (0.4 degrees F) below normal for March.

--Western snow pack was among the healthiest in more than a decade, which is great news.