UK aid cash helped African dictator buy himself a £30m jet | Mail Online

British aid money was used by an African dictator to buy a £30million jet, it emerged last night.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni bought the top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550 private plane in the same year ministers gave his poverty- ravaged country £70million.

During the same period Uganda also received around £57million from the UK through the European Union.

Where’s the warming? « Hot Air

It’s becoming even more clear now. If carbon increases and the predicted warming didn’t follow, then the obvious conclusion is that the hypothesis regarding cause and effect is incorrect — and the missing hot spots are even further evidence of this.

ESR | June 13, 2011 | A burning issue: More huge forest fires?

it is happening all across the western U.S. and has nothing to do with Climate Change.
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The fuel loads on the forest floor in 1876 were very small, due to the frequent small fires. Nothing got out of hand. Dead limbs, small, overcrowded trees and the thick carpet of pine needles on the forest floor burned every few years. That precluded the massive stand-replacing fires we are seeing now.

Palo Alto Online : Solve poverty, global warming with science, grads told

Mexico President Felipe Calderon Sunday urged Stanford University graduates to use "the best tools and most advanced knowledge" to fight poverty and climate change.  [Will tripling the price of gas solve both problems?]