70 years without eating? 'Starving yogi' says it's true - The Body Odd - msnbc.com

Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian yogi, is making headlines by claims that for the past 70 years he has had nothing -- not one calorie -- to eat and not one drop of liquid to drink.

Is a Climate Bill Dead? | Kevin Drum - Mother Jones

If I had to guess, I'd say that cap-and-trade (or a carbon tax) is dead for the near future, and our best bet is to regroup and attempt to pass a bill without it.

Tree-ring patterns are intellectual property, not climate data | Michael Baillie | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Ancient woodland would not have the same response to climate factors, such as temperature or rainfall, as oak trees today
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Finally, regarding intellectual property and the release of data under FOI, when a dendrochronologist measures the widths of the growth rings in a sample, he or she has to make multiple decisions with respect to the starts and ends of the rings, problem rings, and so on. Repeated measurement of the same sample, will not give exactly the same measurements. The number of rings must be the same, but the actual measured widths will not be. This means that the ring pattern of a tree-ring sample carries the "intellectual fingerprint" of the dendrochronologist who measured it, every bit as much as this text carries my intellectual fingerprint. In my opinion, tree-ring patterns are therefore intellectual property and should not be handed out as if they are instrumental climate data.

Connie Hedegaard seeks 30% carbon cuts target for Europe | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Hedegaard said the US Senate's delay in passing an energy bill "has been a real disappointment". EU negotiators resisted "bashing the Americans too much" last year, believing it might be counterproductive, she said. "Now the US needs to bring in the law."