Stove pollution causes 2 million deaths annually | Grist

Smoke from poorly ventilated cookstoves contributes to the early deaths of more than 2 million people a year, according to the U.N. Foundation. Malaria kills 1 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and 343,000 mothers died in 2008 in childbirth or from related complications, the British medical journal Lancet reported.  [So how many people are killed each year by trace amounts of CO2?]

Have the climate wars begun? John Vidal | Global development | guardian.co.uk

The whole region of Espinar, in Peru, is outraged about the proposed irrigation scheme that will deprive them of water

'Chemical nonsense': "Leading" scientists refute Lord Monckton's attack on climate [junk] science | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Nine 'profoundly wrong' claims made by Ukip deputy leader refuted by climate experts in a document filed with US Congress
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The document contains referenced responses from 21 leading climate scientists, including James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and David Easterling, the chief of the scientific services division at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Centre (NOAA).
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Monckton was contacted for this article but did not comment in time for its publication.

Are the climate change sceptics with no evidence just naturally gullible? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

To dismiss a scientific canon on the basis of evidence that has been debunked evinces an astonishing level of self-belief