UK to back wind and nuclear to avert energy crisis | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Friends of the Earth's sustainable energy advisor Alan Simpson welcomed Huhne's backing for wind power, but cautioned against new nuclear plants and cutting spending on green technology.

"When it comes to renewable energy the UK has been in the slow lane for far too long and without urgent action we risk missing our targets for tackling climate change," he said. "Unlike nuclear energy, wind power is a clean and safe way of cutting carbon emissions and helping to secure our energy supplies – it will also boost our economy by creating new jobs.

Sharks, blue-fin tuna, and overfished oceans : The New Yorker

Eventually, all that will be left in the oceans are organisms that people won’t, or can’t, consume, like sea slugs and toxic algae. It’s been argued that humans have become such a dominant force on the planet that we’ve ushered in a new geological epoch. Pauly proposes that this new epoch be called the Myxocene, from the Greek muxa, meaning “slime.”

GISS Swiss Cheese | Watts Up With That?

If we look at the only two long-term stations which GISS does have in Greenland, it becomes clear that there has been nothing extraordinary or record breaking about the last 12 years (other than one probably errant data point.) The 1930s were warmer in Greenland.

Similarly, GISS has essentially no 250 km 1880-2009 data in the interior of Africa, yet has managed to generate a detailed profile across the entire continent for that same time period. In the process of doing this, they “disappeared” a cold spot in what is now Zimbabwe.

Muir Russell Findings No Solace for the EPA — MasterResource

While the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency would surely love to use the findings of the Independent Climate Change Email Inquiry (aka the Muir Russell report) to brush aside the many challenges mounted, in response to the Climategate email scandal, to the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public’s health and welfare (a finding which enables the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions), they’ll find little in the Muir Russell report to help in their defense.