Any color you like, as long as its green - The National Newspaper

It was always going to be a more subdued North American International Motor Show for 2009. The credit crunch, last year’s oil price spike and the Big Three calling upon the US government for financial assistance made last year’s ostentatious displays of celebrity guests and lavish hospitality seem like a dim and distant memory.

Instead, it was a lean, green show coming from Detroit with pretty much every stand, apart from Lamborghini and Maserati, offering some sort of environmentally friendly initiative. It remains to be seen as to which companies will succeed with their eco-friendly plans, which projects will never see the light of day and which ones will be taken seriously by the anti-global warming campaigners.

The Impact of Climate Change on Typhoon Activity

Following their own advice about the need "to extend the time span of typhoon activity records" to help resolve the debate over the nature of climate change effects on this important weather phenomenon, Fan and Liu were able to demonstrate that the world's climate alarmists likely have even the sign of the temperature effect on typhoon activity wrong, as global warming seems to reduce tropical cyclone activity over both the long-term and the short-term.