In Canada, TV Goes Deep on Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

In a world of shrinking conventional coverage of (non-medical) science and the environment, it was refreshing recently to become aware of the The Agenda with Steve Paikin, a popular current-affairs program on public television in Ontario — particularly its five-hour string of shows devoted to some of the prime facets of the climate challenge.

The guests in the series ranged from Joe Romm, “ America’s fiercest climate blogger,” to Richard Lindzen, the climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been variously lionized and pilloried for his arguments against science pointing to a dangerous human influence on climate. (I was invited earlier this week to join two climate scientists in a segment focusing on the value and limits of computer-generated climate simulations.)

Global warming: Greenpeace morphs into big tobacco

...to say that Exxon has geared up and contributed $23 million over 10 years time to a couple of dozen organisations to create a machine to fight climate change is a fantasy with just one goal--to increase contributions to Greenpeace.

Roy Innis : [Evil real-world effects of the climate hoax] - Townhall.com

Ghana is trying to build a 130-MW gas-fired power plant, to bring electricity’s blessings to more of its people, schools, hospitals and businesses. Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week, leaving their futures bleak.

Most people in Ghana are forced to cook and heat with wood, crop wastes or dung, says Franklin Cudjoe, director of the Imani (Hope) Center for Policy and Education, in Accra. The indoor air pollution from these fires causes blindness, asthma and severe lung infections that kill a million women and young children every year. Countless more Africans die from intestinal diseases caused by eating unrefrigerated, spoiled food.

But when Ghana turned to its United States “partner” and asked OPIC to support the $185-million project, OPIC refused to finance even part of it – thus adding as much as 20% to its financing cost. Repeated across Africa, these extra costs for meeting “climate change prevention” policies will threaten numerous projects, and prolong poverty and disease for millions.

Bees in more trouble than ever after bad winter

[Written by Garance Burke and Seth Borenstein] MERCED, Calif. (AP) — The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides.