Who ‘cleared’ India to bag multi-million dollar carbon credits?

The fact that India almost got away with earning carbon credits on a dam that was built illegally on Pakistan’s waters only highlight the criminal incompetence of the big wigs of the water wing of the ministry of water and power and its Advisor on Water, who apparently played dirty on the first two dams and were caught napping this time around as well.

Australia falls out of love with 'Carbon Cate' over starring role in tax advert - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

in the eyes of her fellow Australians, Cate Blanchett – Oscar-winning actor, theatre director and icon of female beauty – can usually do no wrong. Yesterday, though, she was branded "Carbon Cate" for taking part in a television advertising campaign promoting the virtues of a carbon tax.

Harassing climate-change researchers - The Washington Post

Going after Mr. Mann only discourages the sort of scientific inquiry that, over time, sorts out fact from speculation, good science from bad.
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Teresa A. Sullivan, U-Va.’s president, said that the university will use “all available exemptions” from the state’s public records law to shield Mr. Mann. And a university spokesperson said that U-Va. anticipates that most of the documents at issue will be exempt under a statute that “excludes from disclosure unpublished proprietary information produced or collected by faculty in the conduct of, or as a result of, study or research on scientific or scholarly issues.” The university is right to make full use of such exemptions.

The other new "Thor" movie - Straight to DVD - Salon.com

No matter how much you may agree with Nguyen's central premise, laughing through his heavy-handed and clunky delivery is one of "Birdemic's" main attractions, but it's worth noting that climate change may have delayed this very review. East Coast snowstorms kept all those Blu-discs of "Birdemic" trapped in a Georgia processing plant. "This damned global warming," indeed.