Debunking Al Gore in Cape Verde

Droughts are a well known fatality in Cape Verde, and over a 100000 people starved to death in the 18th and 19th centuries, long before CO2 started rising. Gore is also afraid that this tiny nation is vulnerable to flooding from storms and sea level rise. He should check out the facts relating to the Cape Verde hotspot uplift history.

Climate change expert to speak in Cooma - ABC South East NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Professor Steffen is the executive director of the Australian National University Climate Change Institute and sits on the Federal Government's multi-party climate change committee.

The action group's convener, Jenny Goldie, says changing weather patterns will affect the landscape.

"We're likely to have a 50 per cent reduction in rainfall in the southern half of the continent under four degrees warming," she said.

Grisly news for grizzly bears | Strange Bedfellows — Politics News - seattlepi.com

Death of the pines is grisly news for the 500 to 700 grizzly bears that inhabit America’s first (and most famous) national park and its surrounding Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

[Oct 2010] Yellowstone grizzly population is at its highest in decades - latimes.com

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Grizzly bear numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park have hit their highest level in decades, driving increased conflicts with humans as some bears push out of deep wilderness and into populated areas.

Scientists from a multi-agency research team announced Wednesday that at least 603 grizzlies now roam the Yellowstone area of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. That's more than three times the number in 1975, when hunting was outlawed and the species placed on the endangered list.