Black bears raid homes of the wealthy in Aspen after berry shortage - Times Online

There were 200 or so bear sightings in the town during August, up from only 16 in 2008.

August '09: Officers kill bear suspected in attack in Aspen - The Denver Post

The Aspen area has had trouble with bears getting into garbage and breaking into homes this summer. Part of the problem is that berries and other natural fare have ripened late because of the cool, moist weather.

Taxpayers foot MPs junket to South Pacific 'to investigate climate change' - Telegraph

A group of politicians spent tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money flying to the South Pacific to investigate the impact of climate change, it has been disclosed.
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The six members of parliament and two peers spent 16 days in the South Pacific last month as part of a “fact finding” mission.

The estimated cost to taxpayers to send the group, who flew business class to Fiji via Australia, was at least £68,200, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme said.

Climate Science: Tim Ball - Funding Hypocrisy

As Frederick W. Robertson said, “There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.” We have all three in abundance in climate science. Hypocrisy in claiming some funding is untainted and supporting research that increases profit; fraud by using false information – a practice that would bring criminal charges in most other areas of business; and tyranny by bullying and suppressing those who seek balance and all the facts. But the ultimate hypocrisy is that the practitioners of all three claim to be our saviors. Save us from them.