Senior Tory hints Cameron may do a U-turn and drop promise to oppose Heathrow third runway | Mail Online

A senior Tory has hinted for the first time that David Cameron is poised to drop his pledge to oppose a third runway at Heathrow.

Mr Cameron surprised Westminster when he announced last year that the Tories would fight plans to expand Britain's biggest airport, because of its impact on the environment.

But now Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the party's trade spokesman, said the Conservatives may have to 'revisit' the policy before the next election.

Bye Bye Black Sheep: Warming Dooms Dark Wool: Discovery Channel

July 22, 2009 -- Winters in the windswept Scottish St. Kilda islands have gotten steadily warmer over the past 20 years and the rising temperatures are whittling away the islands' number of black sheep, replacing them with lighter ones, according to a new study.
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"Population crashes every few years in the winter, when there are a lot of sheep and there's not a lot of fodder around," Jake Gratten of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. "It's possible that environmental factors are contributing to the trend."

Robert Meyer: Global warming: religion or science?

If we have seen it once, we have seen it a thousand times: somebody writes an editorial claiming that man-made global warming is a irrefutable scientific fact, and the rest of us who are stubbornly skeptical might as well be charter members of the flat earth society.

But there are numerous problems with taking this sort of approach to any issue. As a non-scientist, it is far too easy to become psychologically bullied by those who would argue that I have no expert standing to dispute this issue. But all of us who think for ourselves have the right to philosophically cross-examine any claim its for logical cogency.

We're saved!: Blue Helmets Go Green - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) --

Nairobi, 22 July 2009 - Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Um Bello, heads up the Alpha Company of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) which is working in the region of Kakata in western Liberia. On 8 July 2009, Um Bello led his troops in a new exercise: planting trees to contribute to the UNEP-led Billion Tree campaign.

"The war against global warming is both an individual and collective responsibility," Um Bello told the UN soldiers and dignitaries who had come to the launching of the tree planting drive. "As a contingent, we have resolved to join efforts with the international community; well-meaning organizations and individuals to ensure that the war is fought, won and our planet Earth is saved," he added as his troops planted 50 trees and pledged to plant another 700 before the end of the year.