USTAR official says jury still out on climate change | The Salt Lake Tribune

Indeed, a representative of the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative (USTAR) agreed with members of the Interim Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee Wednesday that the science remains uncertain about the need to curb carbon dioxide.

“I think the jury is still out on that,” said Alan Walker, echoing an opening remark of the committee co-chairman. “If you gather a group of scientists together, you are going to have a lot of differing opinions on that.”

The testimony echoed the views of several committee members, who questioned why so many resources are being invested into what they understand to be a non-problem.
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 “We have a mission,” [Michael O’Malley, USTAR spokesman] said, “to preserve and create jobs.”  [Wait, isn't this supposed to be about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?]

BBC News - Southern Sudan unveils plans for animal-shaped cities

The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region's cities in the shapes of animals and fruit.

Invitation to join 350 EARTH: A global satellite art project | Grist

The pictures rolling in this summer from Pakistan, Russia, and Greenland make it abundantly clear that we're drowning, burning, and melting this earth -- all because we're pouring vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. As best we can tell right now, global warming is how human civilization runs itself on to the rocks -- but it's not too late (maybe) to change that outcome.

Carbon [Dioxide Scam] Grows on Trees as Kiwi Farmers Ditch Sheep - Bloomberg

New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton.
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The nation’s carbon-trading project was expanded in July to require energy producers to pay for their emissions. By 2015, the system will include agriculture, forcing farmers to pay for emissions their cows and sheep make through belching.
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Federated Farmers’ Nicolson estimates 20 percent, or 2,800, sheep and beef farms could be replaced by carbon forests, harming communities that rely on livestock farming for jobs as shearers, mechanics and vets.