[In praise of global warming]: Large blue butterfly moves to Cotswolds | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Assisted by climate change, the ecologists who saved the butterfly from extinction are reintroducing it to its former haunts
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Previous attempts to reintroduce the large blue in the Cotswolds in recent decades have failed because it was too cold for the butterfly and the ant on which it is dependent.

Now, according to Thomas, climate change and warmer summers, combined with a careful selection of the region's hottest south-facing slopes, should enable the butterfly to return to the hillsides it last graced 60 years ago.

Ohio: Dems' Ground Zero

northeastern seat in 2008 after Republicans held it for nearly 60 years. Now, businessman Jim Renacci is poised to defeat the incumbent, who voted with the House Democrat leadership for the stimulus, cap-and-trade and health-care bills.

Climate bill gets GOP cold shoulder - POLITICO.com Print View

While serving in the Massachusetts Legislature, Brown voted for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which capped emissions from power plants. But he has since shifted to the right, going so far as to question the science linking humans to global warming.
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“I’m saying, people who cast about cap and trade and carbon pricing, they may mean well, but I’m not sure they know what they’re talking about,” Lugar told POLITICO. “And before we get down that step, we really need to know more.”
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“No one in our conference supports a national energy tax,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).