Have Olympic protesters lost credibility after the riot?

More than 200 violent agitators smashed windows and threw paint on the windows of the HBC superstore downtown Vancouver Saturday morning.
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[comment] They are Professional protesters. They around the world protesting anything and everything such as seal hunts,oil drilling, global climate change, etc. They are nothing more than a crummy gang of HOOLIGANS! Hence they are criminals!

2010 Heart Attack protest march - Vancouver, Canada | NowPublic News Coverage

Anti-Olympic demonstrators wearing bandanas and balaclavas smashed windows and overturned newspaper boxes in downtown Vancouver today, part of an anti-Olympic protest march organizers named The 2010 Heart Attack. The march billed itself as a demonstration designed the "clog the arteries of capitalism," according to promotional pamphlets handed out before the rally got underway at around 9 a.m. According to police, around 200 demonstrators took part.

Seal hunt and climate change highlighted at Vancouver Olympic protest that turned ugly | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

Climate-change activist and transportation planner Eric Doherty was also there. He acknowledged that it was a “higher risk event” compared to the relatively peaceful demonstration on February 12, the opening day of the Games.

"This is one event with a certain tone to it,” Doherty said in an interview. “It’s largely by younger people. Given the climate crisis, I understand why young people are angry.”

Texas sea turtles have 'shell' of a time with cold weather

Sea turtles are having a 'shell' of a time dealing with the cold weather.

According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 425 sea turtles have washed ashore.

Almost two-thirds of them have died.

[In case you missed it: Check out this remarkable Nov '09 climate fraud promotional] statement from the Met Office, NERC and the Royal Society

We expect some of the most significant impacts of climate change to occur when natural variability is exacerbated by long-term global warming, so that even small changes in global temperatures can produce damaging local and regional effects. Year on year the evidence is growing that damaging climate and weather events - potentially intensified by global warming - are already happening and beginning to affect society and ecosystems.