Friday, January 08, 2010

BBC News - 'Wildlife in crisis' in frozen UK
Britain's wildlife is being pushed to "the brink of a crisis" as sub-zero temperatures continue to grip the nation, according to conservationists.
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The harsh winter could hit bird numbers "for many years to come", they warn.
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"The extremely hard winter spanning 1962 and 1963 was arguably the single event that had the greatest impact on wildlife within living memory," said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director.

"With the icy weather predicted to last at least another week, this winter could be the single greatest wildlife killer of the new millennium."
Britain Faces Temperatures As Cold as the South Pole - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
As Britain shivers in temperatures as cold as the South Pole, forecasters are warning there is more to come.

On the coldest night for 14 years the mercury dropped to -7.6F in the Scottish Highlands, with well below freezing temperatures elsewhere in the U.K.
FBD: Cold weather destroys an estimated €15m worth of potatoes (Ireland)
January 08 2010 - The freezing weather conditions seen in Ireland over the past two weeks has had a devastating impact on potato producers, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA).
Scammed by scientists, we must dump cap-and-trade | Napa Valley Register
Dear editor, Now that the University of East Anglia Hadley Climate Research Unit has had its climate research fraud exposed for the world to see, will the madness stop with punishing the common man as a result of intentionally falsified data? Will California repeal AB 32, now based on false data? Will the federal government drop cap-and-trade? Cap-and-trade would be the largest tax ever placed on a civilian population and is based on the false premise that man is contributing to climate change via nature’s fertilizer, CO2.
Harsh winter hits Yemenis fleeing conflict: ICRC | Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemeni civilians fleeing a civil conflict in the north face harsh winter conditions that are increasing their misery, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday.
Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim - environment - 08 January 2010 - New Scientist
[Hasnain] blames the IPCC for misusing a remark he made to a journalist. "The magic number of 2035 has not [been] mentioned in any research papers written by me, as no peer-reviewed journal will accept speculative figures," he told New Scientist.

"It is not proper for IPCC to include references from popular magazines or newspapers," Hasnain adds.

1 comment:

Shug Niggurath said...

Biased BBC Blog post on #1 in this thread

Normally B-BBC can be a wee bit obsessed with 'Islamification', but they've gotten into climate a lot of late and this take on the Wildlife crisis is pretty good.

In fact a lot of their recent output might be worth a read over.