Bonn climate talks diary | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Viscount Monckton and the ever-eccentric Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow gave their first official UN press conference this morning but alas, these sceptics and rightwing free marketeers were not well received. Only eight journalists, two men who admitted later they had gone to the wrong meeting, and a fan who cheered wildly at everything that m'lud said were in the audience to hear him lay into renewable energy.
..."A mix of high intelligence and complete ignorance," offered one diplomat observer on the Viscount's performance.
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Bust-up of the week came last night when small island nations and other vulnerable countries slipped in a late night request at an obscure technical committee for an official UN review of the latest climate science and scenarios to limit temperatures to a 1.5C rise..."1.5 to stay alive!" is their battle cry.  [I may try this dramatic slogan the next time my wife and I have a minor dispute over our nighttime home thermostat setting.]

Amish Farmers Play a Large Role in Polluting the Chesapeake : Discovery News

One of the problems plaguing the bay is excessive fertilizer and manure runoff. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading the conservation effort and discovered that Amish farmers from Lancaster Country contribute an alarmingly high level of the runoff.

The Amish lifestyle epitomizes sustainability.

Senate aide says cap and trade dead, scaled-back bill likely | Raw Story

The cap and trade legislation passed by the House of Representatives last summer will be defunct in January, and it's uncertain whether the next Congress will take up the issue.

Sen. Rockefeller on climate change rules: ‘I don’t want EPA turning out the lights on America’ « Coal Tattoo