A penguin species faces extinction

“Think of it like your freezer,’’ Trivelpiece said. “If your freezer is at 30 degrees, you have ice cubes. If your freezer is at 33, you have water in your trays. What’s happening to the penguins is one of the great examples of how a little bit of warmth is so dramatic.’’
...Suddenly, the penguin needs our love, before we make it too warm for them to survive.

While the news for penguins is troubling, record numbers of Atlantic puffins continue to breed in Audubon’s Project Puffin in Maine. It was also a good year for loons in New Hampshire, according to the Loon Preservation Committee.

Time for Rajendra Pachauri to go - opinion - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist

When the IPCC's governing body meets in South Korea next month, it should seek a new chair - preferably a scientist of stature from outside the climate research establishment. That will give it the best chance of re-establishing the credibility it must have.

School Named After Al Gore and Rachel 'DDT' Carson Built on Toxic Soil | NewsBusters.org

After all, Carson has the blood of millions nay billions of malaria deaths on her hands as a result of her paranoid book "Silent Spring" leading to the ban of DDT many years ago.

As for Gore, if he ever gets his way, and nations around the world adopt cap-and-trade programs to limit carbon dioxide emissions, millions will likely die as a result of being kept from modern forms of energy creation.

As such, it's quite fitting a school be named after these two radical environmentalists that could end up harming the very students that attend it.

Naming a school after Al Gore and Rachel Carson is a mistake | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

To name your school after one controversial figure might be judged careless by some. But to name it after two just seems positively reckless. Al Gore, the former US vice-president and force behind An Inconvenient Truth, and Rachel Carson, the author of the seminal environmental text Silent Spring, are deemed by many to be giants of the modern environmental movement. But they are also among its most divisive figures.

Nations rethink Copenhagen commitment on climate funding

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh told FE, “We certainly hope that this meeting will go a long way in reducing trust deficit between countries. But, I doubt whether the Copenhagen logjam is broken. The single most important trigger for success at Cancun is the funding.”

He, however, said that when it comes to funding, the issues are very complex, and the continued financial crisis is making public funding difficult. “It is making countries now rethink their commitments in Copenhagen. Countries are instead talking more about private financing and carbon credits and less about public funding. Conscious efforts are being made to devalue the concept of public funding.