Monday, April 20, 2009

Australian Climate Madness: Hilarious! Penny Wong fails to name a single supporter of the ETS
That's because there aren't any, clearly...
We're saved: Oasis, Coldplay And Nine Inch Nails For Roskilde - Xfm
The theme for this year's festival is "Green Footsteps", which will focus on climate change - deposits gathered from empty bottles picked up at the site will be donated to charity projects in Bangladesh and India.

The festival takes place between July 2 and 5 and takes place just outside Copenhagen.
Breaking: CO2 allegedly causing Yellowstone grizzly population to only expand 4 to 5 percent per year
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Hunters are killing grizzly bears in record numbers around Yellowstone National Park and researchers say the once-endangered predator is expanding across the region.

Bears are being seen — and killed — in places where they were absent for decades. Researchers suspect climate change is wiping out one of the bear's food sources and they worry the trend will continue as the animals roam farther in search of food.

Yellowstone's 600 grizzlies were removed from the endangered species list in 2007, following a recovery program that cost more than $20 million. If the death rate stays high for a second consecutive year, that would trigger a review of the bear's endangered status.
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Schwartz and other biologists who study grizzlies insist the population in the 15,000-square-mile Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming remains strong for now, growing on average 4 to 5 percent a year.

Yet they acknowledge climate change could prove the wild card that puts that growth in check. An epidemic of beetles in Yellowstone's high country has laid waste to tens of thousands of acres of whitebark pine trees, which have seeds that some grizzlies rely on as a dietary staple.

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