Climate change calculations put millions at risk, says new report | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It suggests that to have any reasonable chance – 70% rather than 50% – of avoiding dangerous climate change emissions will need to fall 16% by 2030 worldwide, based on 1990 levels.

The research, reviewed by Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research, comes just days after 193 governments at the UN climate summit in Cancún agreed to make emission cuts –but the biggest emitters declined to raise their ambitions.

"New Car Smell" May Have Caused Hit-and-Run On Cyclist in Vail : TreeHugger

Well I am just never buying a Mercedes sedan now. Look what happened to the Rich Vail Fund Manager [who] Hits Cyclist And Runs, Gets Off Because Charges Might "Jeopardize His Job". Now Martin Erzinger's lawyers are claiming that he might have been overcome by the fumes from the "new car smell" in his car.

As cold snap expands, is another disastrous winter coming to China?

Snows have now covered most of southern China.

How to shock a Cameroon – Telegraph Blogs

My crime was to say that I did not believe in ManBearPig. This caused mouths to drop, and it was then that I realised that these people spend so much time with other members of the soft Left that they don’t see that sensible people just don’t believe the propaganda about ManBearPig.

I particularly shocked the head of Policy Exchange’s environment unit, Simon Lees, who told me that I was denying science and that my position was “political”. Well of course it’s political: the alarmists have politicised the science, tried to demonise anyone who disagrees with them and realised that ManBearPig is a wonderful tool with which to bash capitalism. And it’s a pity that Lees hasn’t taken to heart a Policy Exchange report which explained why scientific consensuses are “alien to science”.