Fla. python hunting season comes to an end - Florida AP - MiamiHerald.com

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Florida's first python hunting season ends Saturday with no reptiles being reported captured and killed, wildlife officials said Friday.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the state's unseasonably cold winter weather is believed to have killed up to 50 percent of the pythons.

Pediatric Environmentalism - Forbes.com

Kids should be learning science--not feel-good advocacy--in school.

Top scientists rush to defend discredited theory of 'runaway' global warming

The late, great newspaperman and critic H.L. Mencken would have thoroughly enjoyed debunking and attacking the silly ravings of today’s global warming alarmists. The following quote, vintage Mencken, describes perfectly the forces at work behind the AGW scare campaign.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Today’s great hobgoblin appears in the shape of a molecule known as CO2.

Greens shouldn't blow their top over Eyjafjallajökull - Telegraph

The volcanic disruption may distract from combating climate change, writes Geoffrey Lean.