BBC News - Lib Dems criticise £20m Whitehall flight bill

The Liberal Democrats have criticised government departments for spending more than £20m in a year on UK flights.

The party said the Ministry of Defence spent the most - nearly £16m on 175,000 domestic flights last year.

Overall government departments spent more than £21.8m on more than 210,000 flights in 2008-09, it said.
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They also show the Department for Energy and Climate Change - which is leading the fight to reduce carbon emissions - paid out for more than 1,000 domestic flights.

Sen. Mary Landrieu takes [well-orchestrated, well-financed heat from advocacy groups pushing the global warming swindle]

Catholics United, a progressive Catholic advocacy group, is running radio ads in New Orleans and Baton Rouge criticizing her legislative efforts.
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Earlier, the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org ran radio ads critical of Landrieu's position on EPA regulations.

Tree-ring anomaly mystifies scientists - Science - NZ Herald News

Scientists are chipping away at a glitch in the climate records, hoping to explain why tree-rings that track temperature changes successfully until the 1950s suddenly veer off.

Researchers believe global warming or other man-made changes may be to blame for an unexplained slowdown in growth of some of the ancient trees used to track temperatures back more than 1000 years.