Eau Pleine, Wisconsin: Walleyes suffer serious winter kill

The Big Eau Pleine Reservoir’s walleye population suffered a serious winter kill but should recover without additional stocking, the Department of Natural Resources announced today.
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DNR biologists surveyed the reservoir Thursday evening by electroshocking sections of water in which walleye typically congregate. The shocks stun fish, allowing biologists to catch and count them.

On Thursday, surveyers captured an average of 84 fish per hour, compared to an average of 225 fish per hour in recent years.

Failed public policies are to blame for the decline in manufacturing - Telegraph

Energy: Many UK industries are in a similar predicament. For example, British industries that rely heavily on energy, such as glass and chemicals, are at a severe disadvantage with rivals whose governments provide cheap energy. Energy policy is driven too much by climate change [swindle] campaigners and insufficiently by the needs of industry.

WSJ columnist: Make pick-up trucks too costly to own « Green Hell Blog

In his Wall Street Journal column today entitled, “Can Small Cars Overcome Crash Fears?“, Joseph B. White suggests pricing trucks out of the range of people who want to own for non-work reasons...

Dutch block Shell’s plan to bury CO2 « Green Hell Blog

Anyone who thinks we will ever be burying CO2 from coal-fired power plants — the only way to “safely” use coal according to Al Gore and Energy Secretary Steven Chu — is simply out-of-touch with the realities of NIMBY-ism stoked by the green anti-coal jihad.

Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires

In many cases, the authors discovered, changes in climate were less important than changes in vegetation in determining wildfire frequency. Despite a transition from a cool, dry climate to a warm, dry climate about 10,500 years ago, for example, the researchers found a sharp decline in the frequency of fires. Their sediment cores from that time period revealed a vegetation change from flammable shrubs to fire-resistant deciduous trees, a trend which Higuera thinks was enough to offset the direct effects of climate on fire frequencies.

"In this case, a warmer climate was likely more favorable for fire occurrence, but the development of deciduous trees on the landscape offset this direct climatic effect. Consequently, we see very little fire," Higuera says.