Capital Flight From Green Investments – “Innovation In The Energy Sector Could Slip Into A Major Crisis”

With another financial crisis flaring up, the green energy sector this time is taking a hit. This is being reported today in the German language Technology Review here.
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No wonder Al Gore blew a fuse a few days back. With this news and the Chicago Climate Exchange shutting down, the poor bloke is probably taking a real hit. Might want to have a skyscraper watch.

BBC News - Australia's Great Barrier Reef 'at risk from pesticide'

Agricultural pesticides are causing significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef, according to a new Australian government report on water quality at the site.

Out of the laboratory | Red Pepper

Connie St Louis, a senior lecturer at City University, London, trains would-be science journalists.
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For Connie St Louis, the responsibility also lies with the media. She argues that too many science journalists are concerned with telling the story of science rather than investigating it. Instead of investigators and reporters they become more akin to PR spokepeople: ‘We don’t have science journalists that are interrogating science. I think we should have a much more proactive science journalism, investigating conflicts of interest, peer review, who’s retracting what and when. I don’t think people understand how much money is paid by oil companies to feed, for example, climate sceptics. I don’t think people understand how governments make decisions and I think without those bits of information it’s difficult for people to understand.’

St Louis is particularly critical of the way newspapers covered ‘Climate-gate’, the scandal that erupted when climatologists at the University of East Anglia had their emails hacked. The emails were said to contain evidence that scientists were manipulating data to support the view that man-made climate change is real. St Louis argues that editors removed science correspondents from this story because their role was seen as science promotion rather than interrogation. This meant the coverage was handed over to political and news journalists. These correspondents concentrated on the controversy and news space was filled with climate sceptic opinion.
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Science journalists had the expertise to dispute the claims of climate sceptics, and that they were not given an investigative role allowed climate change deniers to gain far greater attention than they might have otherwise.