Save the Planet: Shop Walmart - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest

Walmart and its Big Box friends are making the world a greener, more sustainable place. This isn’t because of any PR stunts or corporate green initiatives they may have going; it’s because they are relentlessly focused on profit and efficiency. It is their cutthroat capitalism not their sense of corporate citizenship that will save us — if anything can.

Walmart is helping to save the planet because it’s tough and realistic and focused like a laser on the bottom line.

Radio Australia:Asia Pacific:Story:Nepal seeks explanation for corn crop failure

Nepal has suffered massive corn crop failure - both late last year and early this year - and some farmers blame the multinational companies who sold them the seed.
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Kunwar is trying to determine whether unusual cold weather may have caused the seeds to go bad, as claimed by the Indian and American seed manufacturers.

C3: Chinese Peer-Reveiwed Study Provides Overwhelming Evidence That IPCC Is Wrong: Medieval Warming Was Hotter

More research from China confirms Medieval temperatures were significantly warmer than current ones. The study also provides direct evidence that the Medieval Warming was a global phenomenon, not just a European regional climate condition, as the IPCC speculates.

Say Goodbye to Sunspots? - ScienceNOW

Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun's face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period of cooling on Earth.