Again: Where's the evidence of declining corn yields?

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service website, average corn yield in 1977 for the United States was 90.8 bushels. Last year, it was 153.9 bushels, that’s a 70% increase in corn yield during my lifetime.

Local Poets [Swallow] Climate Change [Scam]

Last Wednesday, I attended the Earth Day Poetry Slam at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences. Local poets from DC Slam were invited to perform poems on climate change solutions. Poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry.

Keep reading for more excerpts from the climate change poetry slam...

Five poets brought climate and environment issues into a creative light. Some introduced familiar characters as a means of reaching the audience: a distraught Santa Claus; a melting Frosty the Snowman; and a polar bear visiting the White House in a business suit. Another poet created new characters out of water vapor and carbon dioxide. Still others made a more personal case, pondering their connection to the environment and posing actions we can take to improve it.

Chemicals industry frets over EU reduction target - ClimateChangeCorp.com

The chemicals industry faces tough emissions targets in the next phase of the EU emissions trading scheme and, to add to its carbon woes, it has hit a wall on energy efficiency, according to the UK’s Chemicals Industry Association (CIA).

The head of climate change at the association, Nick Sturgeon, says free allocations of carbon credits will need to be made available to the industry in Phase Three (2012-2020) of the EUETS in order for it to remain price competitive abroad.

Children to track climate change in the capital | News

It will also be the first detailed study into the phenomenon of "urban heat islands", which cause the capital to have its own microclimate. Temperatures in London are generally higher because large buildings soak up the sun during the day and give off heat at night like giant storage heaters.

The urban heat island effect was first described more than 200 years ago, but details are non-existent because so few weather stations exist in the capital.