Fighting climate change the key to ending poverty

Fighting climate change and overcoming poverty are the defining challenges of our time. You cannot, however, fix one without the other.

Professor Garth Paltridge on The Climate Caper « An Honest Climate Debate

From the Foreword by Lord Christopher Monckton:

Nevertheless, when the history of the bizarre intellectual aberration that is “global warming” comes to be written, once it is even clearer than it already is that the disasters, catastrophes, cataclysms and apocalypses that have been so luridly and so widely predicted have not and will not come to pass, Dr. Paltridge’s little book will be regarded as one of the few, rare, precious beacons of enlightenment that prevented humanity from wandering through carelessness, ignorance and absent-mindedness into a new Dark Age.

Climate Research News » The Slaughter of Migratory Bats by Wind Turbines

With wind power booming around the world—in Germany alone, nearly 20,000 wind-energy installations have been built since 1990—researchers are seeing a marked increase in dead bats. The turbines simply rotate their blades too quickly for the winged mammals to avoid.

WWF’s ‘One in Five’: Business travel can help save the planet too

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has recently launched a campaign to educate business travelers on how to reduce flights without sacrificing productivity – while helping preserve wildlife and save the planet in the process.

Cap and Trade’s Effect on Diesel Prices » The Foundry

Do you drive a truck or a farm tractor? If not do you use any products grown on a farm or shipped by truck? Well, here’s some news: The Waxman-Markey energy tax bill will make all those products more expensive.