AFP: Senator says Obama driven on climate

The Vermont senator [Bernie Sanders] was taking part in the launch of a study arguing that the United States can reduce carbon emissions by 83 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 while sharply expanding employment.

The study, commissioned from the German Aerospace Center space agency by environmental group Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council, calls for dramatic increases in wind, solar and other green energies.

The blueprint would phase out all coal and nuclear power but said that despite the job losses, the United States would have a net gain of more than 14.5 million jobs in the energy sector by 2050.

Yemen: No more potatoes from Saudi Arabia

This year, the country has imported large quantities from Saudi Arabia due to a cold wave that hit the Marib governorate, one of the largest potatoes producers in the country, and floods that had devastated the governorates of Hadramout and Mahra.

The silence of the ducks

The team also dropped an army of rubber ducks with built-in trackers into a gaping moulin in the hope of finding out where the water came out.

Steffen, talking at the climate change congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, says they have not yet picked up any signal from the rubber bath toys. They will only transmit their location if they emerge from underneath the ice and Steffen reckons there is a good chance they have been ground to a smithereens by the huge mass of ice.