Most Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change, Poll Finds : TreeHugger

Most of the Africans interviewed hadn't heard of climate change, much less understood that it was the result of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. They've just seen firsthand how weather conditions are changing (droughts, for one) for the worse, and have adopted a belief that they must be responsible for the shift.

Smog danger inflated: climate change critic

A Canadian economist known for his controversial critique of climate-change science has turned his sights on the health effects of smog, concluding in a new study that pollution has no impact on the number of hospital admissions for respiratory illness.

Estimates that airborne contaminants cause thousands of deaths a year - often cited by public-health authorities and medical associations - are gross exaggerations, argues the University of Guelph's Ross McKitrick in the paper.

Frost fans on early to beat cold snap | New Zealand

Nervous grapegrowers were on standby as temperatures fell to unseasonably low levels overnight.
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Francis Estate vineyard manager Polly Francis said three of the Ward company's four frost fans ran intermittently from 3.30am until 5.30am to combat the 1C ground temperature.

"We've never had this before so early on in the season," she said.

Anorak News » Blog Archive » Greens Losing War On Climate Change As Americans No Longer Care

Another issue though, of special importance, is the degree of concern about tropical rain forests. Despite being a poster child of the warmists, the level here is at an absolute all-time low, down to 33 percent from 42 percent in 1989.

What makes this special, amongst other things, is that as public subscriptions to environmental groups such as WWF is actually going down, the proportion of their income from trusts and foundations, governments and corporate is actually going up, with a huge increase in spending on Amazon projects.

Thus, these figure – to a certain extent – measure not only public sentiment but the growing divide between us and our rulers and the corporate world. Never in the field of human history, perhaps, have so many been out of touch with the public.