2008 fatal plane crash: Pilot fails to maintain control of airplane while maneuvering around a wind farm

Using track data, investigators concluded that the Cessna 140 was flying Feb. 8, 2008, between 300 and 600 feet above ground level near Grand Meadow when it encountered a wind farm with several 400-foot-tall wind turbines. The plane then made a 90-degree turn, followed by a figure-eight turn at varying altitudes between 800 and 1,500 feet above ground level.

The plane crashed in a field, leaving a 300-foot-long trail of debris and plane fragments.

Jonah Goldberg: The EPA's undemocratic power grab - Los Angeles Times

Two years ago, the Supreme Court -- the least democratic branch of our formal government -- decided in Massachusetts vs. EPA that the agency could regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. With this judicial green light, the EPA has launched its power grab over all that burns, breathes, burps, flies, drives and passes gas.

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We are now at the point that I have long feared we would be, if we mislabeled carbon dioxide as a pollutant. While the consequences of excess CO2 and other naturally-occurring greenhouse gases certainly live up to the terms the EPA has applied in its finding, unleashing a pollution mentality to solve climate change will be counter-productive and unnecessarily expensive, when dealing with a phenomenon for which a ton of CO2 emitted, captured or avoided in Boston is exactly equivalent in its climate impact to a ton emitted, captured or avoided in Beijing. We would have been much better served if the Supreme Court had paraphrased the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and found that CO2 was "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" pollution, yet here we are.

Allegedly warmer winters are allegedly bad for bees, butterflies, and moths?

Pollinators – including honey and bumble bees, butterflies and moths – play an essential role in putting food on our tables through the pollination of many vital crops. These insects are susceptible to a variety of disease and environmental threats, some of which have increased significantly over the last five to ten years. Climate change, in particular warmer winters and wetter summers, has had a major impact on pollinators.

As a result, the numbers of pollinators have been declining steadily in recent years, with the number of bees in the UK alone falling by between 10 and 15 per cent over the last two years.