BBC News - Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten

Some local people have suggested this latest outbreak of attacks may be linked to the unusually low temperatures the Peruvian Amazon in recent years.

Column - Blinded by the sun | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

THE beauty about solar power stations is that you just have to promise them. Never mind that you won’t deliver. After all, the new green faith is about seeming, not doing, right?
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The only big solar plant close to being built is that one near Mildura. So keen has the Government been to seem green that it promised this project’s private owners $50 million to get it up, and prime minister John Howard, desperate in his last days to seem funky, threw in $75 million.

This for a plant that would produce only enough wildly overpriced power at peak times for 45,000 homes, but no factories, and would still need conventional power stations humming on line for when the sun didn’t shine.

Yet still the project collapsed last year, throwing 100 people out of work.

In February, with $150 million of investors’ money gone, including up to $3 million of the government handouts, its carcass was sold to Silex Systems for just $20 million.

[About the beachfront mansion of Al Gore's global warming mentor]  - WSJ.com

The La Jolla, Calif., estate of scientist Roger Revelle's family has come on the market for $14 million.

Dr. Revelle, who died in 1991, was among the earliest to study global warming and one of the founders of the University of California San Diego, where a college is named for him.

The Revelles moved into the home in 1947. The property includes 115 feet of beachfront and a 4,100-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bath house. There's a fishpond, a swimming pool and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom detached guest house.