Taiwan fishermen fall victim to climate change: report

The haul of grey mullets Taiwan fishermen catch each year has plunged from a peak of 2.7 million 10 years ago to just 100,000 in a worrying sign of damaging climate change, it was reported Sunday.

Jennifer Marohasy » The Little Ice Age Thermometers Project

THE Little Ice Age Thermometers project is an attempt to compile instrumental readings from 1660 that predate the era of modern ‘global temperatures’ as recorded by the Climate Research Unit (CRU)/ Hadley Centre in the UK since 1850 and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) since 1880.

The project demonstrates that climate variability prior to the modern era is much greater than officially recognised, and that global records are measured from troughs of the little ice age and should therefore cause no surprise when they subsequently rise.

WRAPUP 1-Environment ministers try to unlock climate deal | Markets | Reuters

China has said it wants to wrap up a firm deal before Premier Wen Jiabao joins other world leaders at the summit.

"My understanding is that the leaders are coming to celebrate the good outcome of the talks," senior Chinese envoy Su Wei said on Saturday.
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The march by tens of thousands of people was largely peaceful but violence erupted towards evening when demonstrators smashed windows and set fire to cars.