AFP: New Mekong species at risk from climate change: WWF

BANGKOK — Scientists discovered 163 new species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region last year, but all are at risk of extinction due to climate change, the WWF said in a report released Friday.

Reuters AlertNet - In Brief: Crucial climate [scam] negotiations to be held in Thailand

"Let us make this a year that we, united nations, rise to the greatest challenge we face as a human family: the threat of catastrophic climate change," Ban told a meeting of the UN General Assembly on 23 September.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Inhofe going to global-warming conference in Copenhagen

What could be more out of place than a Republican in an ACORN office? Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) at a global-warming conference. The leading Congressional skeptic of global warming plans his first trip to the annual conference in six years to act as the “only voice” of opposition, and hopes to force the attendees to deal with rising skepticism about the claims of climate-change advocates

The American Spectator : Copenhagen Smokeless Chu

Activists like Richard Branson pride themselves on perpetual adolescence, seeing no contradiction between the jet-setting hedonism they practice and the abstemious environmentalism they preach. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's comparison of the American people to adolescents should offend these celebrity activists a bit.

The Deadly Silence of the Electric Car - washingtonpost.com

...an as-yet-unreleased NHTSA study of accidents in 12 states compares accident rates for some hybrid vehicles and their internal combustion engine counterparts.

Covering more than 8,000 hybrid electric vehicles and nearly 600,000 gasoline-fueled cars, the analysis suggests that during certain low-speed maneuvers such as turning and backing up, hybrid vehicles are 50 percent more likely to be involved in an accident with a pedestrian, said Ronald Medford, acting deputy administrator of NHTSA.

"We certainly know that blind pedestrians rely heavily on the sound of vehicles as a means of determining when it is safe to cross the road," Medford said. "But all of us are susceptible."