Giant prehistoric kangaroos wiped out by hungry Ice Age hunters - Times Online

Scientists think they have discovered the reason behind the demise of the prehistoric Australian marsupial Procoptodon goliah – better known as the giant, short-snouted kangaroo. They say it was not climate change, as has always been assumed, but hungry Ice Age hunters.

EXCLUSIVE-U.S. resists EU climate target for G8 summit | Reuters

OSLO, June 23 (Reuters) - The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialised nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text.
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"It is extremely worrying that President Obama's officials appear to be weakening the G8's climate conclusions," said Damon Moglen, head of the U.S. climate campaign for environmental group Greenpeace.

"This is a long way from his pledge that the U.S. is ready to lead in the global effort to tackle climate change," he said.

June '08: Althouse: "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Most megalomaniacal line in Barack Obama's speech last night. We laughed a lot.