With the ClimateGate story exploding on the Internet, here's what we get from the Associated Press: Carbon credits spell new future for forests

Brian C. Murray, director for economic analysis at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, said carbon credits could move tens of millions of acres of cropland into forest, particularly in the Southeast and Midwest, where they have moved back and forth since the Civil War.

Nobel expert: Global warming causing Irish floods, climate change | Irish News | IrishCentral

Ireland's massive flooding has almost certainly been the result of climate change, says Nobel Prize-winner and Ireland's leading climatologist, Prof. John Sweeney.

"We have reaped what we have sown," he said.

Witches and Scapegoats: Persecuting & Prosecuting Witches as a Way of Attacking Social Problems

Regions with the most social and political unrest also happened to be those with the greatest problem with witches. Every social, political, and natural problem was blamed on witches. Crop failure? Witches did it.

Fact, fiction and foolishness: 2009 ebbs: The Swamp

Facts: The surface temperatures of the world's oceans have increased. The Arctic ice cap has shrunk. Glaciers are melting into the sea. It's fiction to suggest that all of the carbon that human industry and trasnportation is pumping into the Earth's atmosphere has had nothing to do with climate change. A renowned oceanographer whom we know says that, in his decades of scientific research, he has never seen anything more real. It's foolishness to doubt the seriousness of global warming, or even to spend any time debating it.