Climate Group Regrets Shock Film Tactic (So Does Sony) - NYTimes.com

There are much more important things to focus on than an utterly misconceived mini movie blowing up kids to recruit carbon cutters, so it’s welcome that Eugenie Harvey, the director of the 10:10 UK group that commissioned the film, has moved toward closure by issuing a real apology

[Hottest year ever update]: NZ - Snow hits farmers big time

Following a reasonably benign winter, the Southland region of New Zealand (NZ) has in the past week been hit by “the worst spring storm in living memory” according to the NZ Herald.

Six days of blizzards have caused deaths among new lambs numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and raised concern over the welfare of ewes yet to lamb.

Michelle Malkin » Climate Change: The Musical

I’d seen the Carthage Community Theater’s musical production about the life of their most famous local resident, Phantom of the Chakra, but this sounds like an even bigger production (suggested titles: A Consensus of Cats; South Pacific Rising; How to Succeed in Scamming Without Really Trying; Hypocrite on the Roof; A Funny Thing Happened to My SUV Caravan on the Way to the Climate Change Forum; The Wizard of Ozone; Ed Begley Superstar; Annie Get Your Green Job and Seven Carbon Offsets for Seven Brothers).

[Fraudster Al in Mexico]: Al Gore Calls for Business to Be More Vocal on Climate Change at the B4E Summit - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Al Gore—former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 30 Rock guest star—gave the keynote address at lunch. (I was there to introduce him—I didn't include the 30 Rock bit, but maybe I should have.)

It's been a while since I've heard Gore speak—I believe the last time was his address to the 2009 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—but his message was still the same: the climate crisis was mounting, thanks to growing population and fossil fuel-fuelled growth, but there was time to come together and halt a coming catastrophe.