Westwood's Madcap Show Sounds Climate Change Alarm - ABC News

Models at Vivienne Westwood's Paris runway show Friday looked like 18th century French countesses escaping a fire at the chateau.

Wearing outfits that could have been made from a pair of drapes hastily snatched from the window frame, and with their enormous beehive hairdos sprayed yellow and red at their teased tips as if they were being licked by the flames, Westwood's models looked lucky to save themselves.

The chateau, we were meant to understand, is planet earth and the fire, climate change.

The spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection is "about running fast because we have to act very quickly to slow down (climate change) and change our ethics and save this planet," Westwood told The Associated Press in a backstage interview before the show, which was held in an 18th century mansion in central Paris.

Inhofe: EPA Trying to Bully Congress into Passing Climate Bill

"They can do it, but I have a different feeling about this," Inhofe said during an interview yesterday evening on CNBC. "I don't think they really want to do it; I think they want to use this to intimidate Congress to pass this."

Inhofe said that the Obama administration and the EPA wouldn't want to have to take responsibility for imposing new measures that could result in higher taxes and fees for families and businesses, and would rather hang that burden around the necks of lawmakers in Congress.

[What, no "Red Hot Lies"?]: Must-reads for Copenhagen

Mike Hulme, Tony Juniper, Mark Lynas, Oliver Morton, Ron Oxburgh, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Roger Pielke, Jr, Andrew Revkin & Joseph Romm

At the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen this December, talk will turn to scientific, political and economic issues with a global reach and a long history — not easy to pick up from the daily news. We asked select experts on climate change what books we should be reading ahead of the big event.