BBC News - Police extremist unit helps climate change [hoax] e-mail probe

"While this is not strictly a domestic extremism matter, as a national police unit we had the expertise and resource to assist with this investigation, as well as good background knowledge of climate change issues in relation to criminal investigations."

Kyoto to Copenhagen: Why UN's glacial global warming talks need overhaul / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

...on Jan. 10, the UK Press Association reported that support is growing within the European Union to shift from the UN to the G-20 as the forum for negotiating climate deals. The report quotes Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos as saying, "We need to change our negotiating strategy," then cites unnamed "Spanish officials" as acknowledging the desire for a change in negotiating bodies.

Study: Climate Change Hurts Butterflies - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento

Diversity among high-elevation butterflies is beginning to fall as temperatures become uncomfortably warm for them and, Shapiro said, "There is nowhere to go except heaven."

Using a battery of statistical approaches, Shapiro and his colleagues concluded that climate change alone cannot account in full for the deteriorating low-elevation numbers. Land-use data show that the butterfly losses have been greatest where habitat has been converted from rural to urban and suburban types.

‘Smart’ Grid: New Critics of a Bad Idea (Part I of II) — MasterResource

Possibly the most fascinating aspect of the Smart Grid is the absense of an economic rationale.

American Thinker: NYT & David Brooks: Intellectuals Я Us

Brooks prides himself on his New York Times-like understanding of ordinary life. Why, only last week he moderated a symposium on global warming sponsored, in part, by the National Hockey League. Hockey -- you can't get any more common than that!...he did have a piercing "educated class" insight for Times readers: "Hockey players like ice."