I'm funny: official – Telegraph Blogs

...objectivity or fairness was never the point of Harrabin’s comment, any more than it was the point of his programme. In the guise of taking a bold, irreverent, controversial, unexpected sideways look at the Climate Change debate, Harrabin mainly used his two documentaries to warm up the same tired old smears and inaccuracies. Sceptics are funded by Big Oil; they’re a weird, swivel-eyed minority; Climategate was “a storm in a tea cup” which did nothing to shake the underlying science; etc.

A call for direct action in the climate movement: we need your ideas | Grist

* We need large actions, with many members of the general public. Think hundreds and thousands. So don't concentrate on the kind of tactics that only a few hardy specialists can carry out; we're not going to have hundreds of people rappelling or scuba diving.
* We don't think for a minute that we can actually physically shut down the fossil-fuel economy for any meaningful period; it's too big. We need to aim for effective symbolic targets -- say, dirty, old coal-fired power plants -- and use them to make clear the need and opportunity to cut carbon fast.
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We've set up a special email address for ideas: climate.ideas@gmail.com.

China's corn area expects cold weather; sales weak

The temperature in Jilin, in the northeast, may fall as much as 9 degrees celsius (48.20F), and the sharp loss of heat could delay grain fill, said China's weather bureau on its website (www.cnan.gov.cn).

Gillard, from 'Ten Pound Pom' to Australia's first woman PM | My Sinchew

She was just four when she sailed into Australia, clutching a toy koala, in 1966, after her parents took up a cheap 10-pound migration scheme hoping warmer air would cure chronic lung problems.

"(The doctor said Julia) will not be able to grow up in the very cold weather," Moira Gillard said in 2006. "He said, 'Take her to a warmer climate.' So we came to Australia."