Peter Phelps vs Australian museum over climate change | Crikey

...But Phelps, a well-known climate sceptic who has often argued in NSW parliament against the “great global warming swindle”, was so infuriated by the editorial that he emailed off an angry diatribe to Howarth, calling his actions arrogant and “scurrilous”.

“Your dismissive arrogance to the legitimate concerns of those who are sceptical about the claims surrounding anthropogenic global warming, and your censorious attitude towards such people, does not well serve Explore’s readers nor the Australian Museum,” wrote Phelps.

Global Conflict Not Linked to Global Climate Change

A recent Scientific American story links global wars to climate change. But Townhall.com columnist John Ransom has a different take on the published research by economist Solomon Hsiang, of Columbia University.

“Wars in Burundi, Chad, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Peru, the Comoros, Congo, Eritrea, Niger, and Rwanda are so numerous that I could probably make a statistical argument that one in five wars are due to the AFC winning the Super Bowl,” Ransom wrote. “Plus, civil wars as defined in the survey by organized patterns of violence are where 25 or more people die. That could happen at a Niners-Raiders game.

“But at least we are agreed that four out of five wars at a minimum have nothing at all to do with anything other than the political climate,” he continued. “Or the Super Bowl.”

After rough season last year, beekeepers seeing rebound in honey crop | MLive.com

“Beekeeping is strictly by the weather,” he said. “Moisture and hot weather makes for good beekeeping.”

Australia: a poisonous political climate | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

This has long been a toxic issue in Australia.