A fight over the future of farming: U.N. ag group vs. Big Ag | Grist

In other words: Big Ag, step aside. It's not as if the world is being fed particularly well at the moment

American Electric Power threatens firings to stop pollution controls | Grist

On June 9, American Electric Power (AEP), a major utility company that owns plants from Texas to Virginia, announced that it plans to close 21 coal-fired electricity units rather than invest in reducing their toxic air pollution to comply with the forthcoming Environmental Protection Agency reduction requirements

Green jobs and other fantasies | JunkScience Sidebar

“Green” jobs are notoriously the most expensive and least efficient way to encourage employment opportunity, costing more real jobs than they create along the way. As far as corporate welfare recipients and subsidy farmers go, the sooner they disappear from the landscape the better. No sympathy whatsoever.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper explains how climate is 'unusually sensitive' to solar and lunar cycles

The moon and the sun influence Earth’s climate at different times of year, a new study suggests. Researchers have analyzed month-to-month changes in the temperature gradient between the poles. The changes varied every 11 years in winter — meaning the sun was the driving force with its 11-year solar cycle — and 18.6 years in summer — meaning the moon dominated then. Basil Davis, of the École Polytechnique Féderal de Lausanne in Switzerland and Simon Brewer of the University of Wyoming in Laramie describe the work in an upcoming Quaternary Science Reviews.

Arctic Ice Gone By 2008 | Real Science