Kenya Delays Resumption of Coffee Sales as Cold Weather Slows Bean-Drying - Bloomberg

Kenya delayed the resumption of coffee sales by two weeks until June 28 after cold weather slowed the drying the beans, the Nairobi Coffee Exchange said.

Power Line - You Can Prove Anything If You Make the Right Assumptions

One of the least reliable forms of reasoning is that which goes: we know how much every variable contributes to a particular result except one; therefore, if we account for all of those known variables, whatever remains must be attributable to X. Now, of course, in the realm of mathematics such reasoning is used all the time. Transplanted to other subjects, however, it is generally tendentious.

Bjorn Lomborg Explains How to Save the Planet - Newsweek

Naturally, it is a hard sell to tell the hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty in China and elsewhere that they ought to stop burning coal, roll back their prosperity, and go back to a life of poverty.

Not surprisingly, since industrialized nations first promised with great fanfare in Rio de Janeiro to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2000, our approach of early and substantial cutbacks has failed repeatedly. Despite not meeting emission-cut promises in Kyoto and failing even to agree on promises in Copenhagen in 2009, negotiators plan to try again in South Africa later this year. Making empty promises does not make us sustainable.

Bangkok Post : Thailand on course to reach this year's visitor target

For European countries, Russia is the fastest growing market for Thailand. During the first five months, the number of visitors from that country jumped by almost 50% to 426,734. The major stop for Russian tourists is Pattaya. During the first months of this year, there were many charter flights from Russia to Pattaya as they escaped the harsh winter, Suraphon said.