The Fate Of The Environment With A GOP Congress | The New Republic

Endless "Climategate" puffery. In the House, we still don't know what fate awaits Nancy Pelosi's special global warming committee—which Ed Markey mainly used to hold hearings on arcane energy issues and to take members on climate-related educational trips (visit the melting glaciers, etc.) Upton wants to disband it. But the panel's ranking Republican, Jim Sensenbrenner, has suggested he might want to use it to "investigate" the science of climate change. And the new head of the House oversight committee, Darrell Issa, wants to launch yet more inquiries into those Climategate emails in an attempt to prove some sort of scientific conspiracy—even though plenty of independent reviews have concluded that there's nothing there.

General News - Climate change enhances outbreak of health related issues: experts

FAISALABAD (October 25, 2010) : Climate change and globalisation have greatly enhanced the outbreak of health related issues associated with arthropods throughout the globe while the recent floods and the relatively less severe summer has further changed the overall distribution of mosquito and mosquito borne diseases, the experts of Faisalabad Agriculture University said.

Bees on strike, honey harvest plummets by 50 percent

Scientists have so far attempted to explain such unprecedented behavior among bees with three major postulations. The first cause to blame is global warming, which fuels the proliferation of pathogens such as mites, viruses and fungi to the detriment of bee populations. Besides, drastic changes in weather hurt bees, which have for millions of years been accustomed to consistent weather patterns.

Ready for midterm elections? Some selected reading - latimes.com

"Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards" by P.J. O'Rourke (Atlantic Monthly Press: 288 pp., $25)

Who better to provide a little reality check than pundit par excellence P.J. O'Rourke?...Do you want international efforts to fight global warming? If you do, then be prepared: "I want you to go tell 1.3 billion Chinese they can never have a Buick."