Eco Everest team caught in avalanche; one feared dead

Kathmandu (PTI) The Eco Everest Expedition team led by ace climber Appa Sherpa was hit by an avalanche, officials have said.

A high altitude climber Lapka Nuru Sherpa (32), one of the members of the team, has gone missing after being hit by the avalanche at Khumbu icefall, located at 5,800 meters above the sea level on Thursday afternoon, Kaju Baral, a staff member of Asian Trekking Pvt Ltd, who organised the expedition said.
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Through this expedition, Appa aims to spread the message of peace in the world and create awareness about global warming, Mr. Baral said.

The Stage / Reviews / The Contingency Plan: On the Beach/Resilience

What if the worst-case scenario actually happens? Set in the near future, Steve Waters’s gripping double bill - On the Beach and Resilience - sees Britain as threatened by catastrophic flooding due to accelerating climate change.

Gore fumbles on earnings from cap-and-trade legislation (OneNewsNow.com)

The purpose of the hearing was to see whether imposing a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions was worth it, Blackburn says.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee)"And what we've learned is that over 100 years, the steps they want to go through would lower the temperature of the earth about one-quarter of one degree," she points out. "And we know that this will come at the expense of three-to-six million U.S. jobs -- that's the estimation from the National Association of Manufacturers -- and we know that it will also cost each household somewhere between $1,600 and $3,600 a year in taxes."

Blackburn also notes that some energy state Democrats are starting to back away from cap-and-trade because of the cost.

Steamed up by power station - Ealing Gazette

A MASS campaign has been mobilised against a proposed "eco-friendly" power station for Southall.

More than 1,000 signatures of people who oppose the scheme planned on the site of the old gasworks in The Straight were handed to Ealing Council last Friday.
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Resident Aneaka Kelley, 24, who lives in Longford Avenue, Southall, said: "I think it is an outrage that this plant might be built on my doorstep.

"The power plant will burn pure, unrecycled vegetable oil, which will lead to more air pollution here in Southall and more climate change globally.

"It's a myth that these fuels combat climate change. They make it worse and release more greenhouse gases."