Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

...And the red apes she studies in Indonesia are on the verge of extinction because forests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations.
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The demand for palm oil is rising in the U.S. and Europe because it is touted as a "clean" alternative to fuel. Indonesia is the world's top producer of palm oil, and prices have jumped by almost 70 percent in the last year.

Tampa: Cold Snap Could Be Worst Since Jan. 1985

These next few days might be the coldest on record since the notorious deep freeze in 1985.

Australian Climate Madness: Krudd & Co - Carry On Regardless

There's only one real challenge, I'm afraid, and you're making it worse. Pure climate madness.

'What Global Warming Mr President?' | CO2sceptics

=> "What Global Warming?, Mr President" PRESIDENT Barack Obma's superb inauguration speech was wisely short on Global Warming rhetoric - presumably because the USA is in the midst of the most severe winter for years and his day itself was very cold but he left out the fact that Global warming is over...

Antarctica warming? An evolution of viewpoint « Watts Up With That?

Anytime Michael Mann gets involved in a paper and something is “deduced” it makes me wary of the veracity of the methodology. Why? Mann can’t even correct simple faults like latitude-longitude errors in data used in previous papers he’s written.

But that’s not the focus of the moment. In that press release they cite NASA satellite imagery. Let’s take a look at how the imagery has changed in 5 years...