India fully committed to Kyoto Protocol: Jairam Ramesh

'India has been one of the major beneficiaries of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a flexible mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol and would like that this mechanism to continue and be further strengthened,' Ramesh said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Column : Gamble in the monsoons

Science and society will pay a very dear price, if political agendas continue to generate and legitimise false and pretentious computer outputs that have no basis in reality. How much better it would be if researchers focused on improving our ability to accurately forecast monsoons, droughts and other events just a few weeks or months in advance. That would really give farmers and others a chance to adapt, minimise damages and actually benefit from being better prepared.
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Willie Soon is a solar physicist and climate scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. Madhav Khandekar is a former research scientist from Environment Canada and served as an expert reviewer for IPCC’s 2007 reports

Treehugger Conyers’s Caddy SUV - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Adding hypocrisy to embarrassment, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers’s official vehicle (ransacked while improperly in the possession of his son over Thanksgiving) is a Cadillac Escalade. This from a professed tree-hugging congressman who voted for Nancy Pelosi’s pet cap-and-trade bill to deter Americans from driving planet-killing behemoths like . . . Cadillac Escalades.

Conyers family motto: “Do as I say, not as I do.”