Technology Review: Making Fat Disappear

Can burning excess fat be as easy as exhaling? That's the finding of a provocative new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who transplanted a fat-burning pathway used by bacteria and plants into mice. The genetic alterations enabled the animals to convert fat into carbon dioxide and remain lean while eating the equivalent of a fast-food diet.

Tidbit from Rush Limbaugh

No, I have not sat down with Nancy Pelosi on global warming. You mean the couch and the TV ad? No, no. And, by the way, I was asked. I never told you. I was asked to do one of those commercials. I forget who with. But I was asked to sit down and do one of those commercials on global warming with Michael Moore. They asked me to sit down with Michael Moore, for the good of the country, for the good of the issue — and I refused to do it.

Stern in Beijing: Day 1

The private discussions may be going better (let’s hope so), and we will need to await the visit-end summations to get a clear sense of where things stand. The initial indications, however, are not particularly encouraging.

Alarmist Andy Revkin weighs in: Contest Seeks Climate Art Beyond ‘Embers’ - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

For years now, I’ve been exploring whether words alone, without a calamitous kick from nature, can jog humanity to cut short its long love affair with fossil fuels for the sake of limiting the odds of dangerous global warming.