Revival of threatened crossbill

The Scottish crossbill, which is the UK's only unique species of bird, has been taken off a conservation charity's endangered list.

The RSPB said the birds' population was thought to be stable enough to no longer be classed among the country's most threatened birds.
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Last year, the organisation warned that climate change threatened the Scottish crossbill with extinction.

Energy Secretary's White-Paint Proposal Puzzles Climate-Change Experts

But at least one science expert thinks Chu is nuts.

"It's past simplistic -- it's ridiculous," says Steven Milloy, publisher of junkscience.com and an avowed climate-change skeptic. "Imagine the glare on roads, in urban areas, imagine the UV radiation bouncing around. Snow blindness would be replaced by road blindness."

EUobserver / Norway offers EU €140m for carbon capture

[Pachauri] "There really aren't too many options for coal other than stopping the use of it entirely, and that frankly is not going to happen in the coming decades," he said.

Canada Has a Frigid May after a Cold Winter

The chart above shows the May 2009 temperature anomaly through May 24th. Parts of central Canada (Churchill, Manitoba) are running 16 degrees F below normal for the month through the 26th (map ends 24th). Every day this month has seen lows below freezing in Churchill and only 6 out of the first 26 days days had highs edge above freezing. The forecast the rest of the month is for more cold with even some snow today in Churchill and again this weekend perhaps further south.
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Meanwhile the arctic ice remains higher this data for any year this decade in a virtual tie with 2004.
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Given the polar stratospheric aerosols from Mt Redoubt, and a colder Atlantic and a continued cold Pacific, the recovery from the minimum of 2007 should continue this season.

The global data bases have large gaps in Canada, Africa, South America. So they will not reflect this in their global May anomalies as well as the satellites that see the entire surface - land and ocean excluding high latitude polar.