Gillard Faces Tax Fight as Labor Loses Power in New South Wales Election - Bloomberg

“This is doom and gloom for Julia Gillard,” said John Warhurst, a political analyst at Australian National University. “If federal-state relations break down, it will be very difficult for Gillard to get runs on the board -- particularly on climate and mining laws.”

The mystery of the 1993 global warming TV ad | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What really struck me, though, was that all the way back in 1993 (four years before the Kyoto protocol was adopted, remember) a government department had paid for an advert to be shown during primetime commercial TV urging people to save energy to help slow down global warming.

Ask Umbra on flatulence and climate change | Grist

The other day I was sitting on the couch after a day of eating an onion-rich diet and wondered ... how much impact can a person have on climate change by avoiding flatulence-producing foods?

Discovery News 2011 : “North America and Eurasia’s snow cover has shrunk” | Real Science

Record high is the new record low