The £350,000 Oxford home given a £90,000 eco-makeover, in a bid to cut Britain's carbon emissions | Mail Online

...it isn't all gain. Thanks to the wall insulation, the house has shrunk internally. The staircase and kitchen are narrower. More serious for the Bishops is the loss of storage space in the loft, now stuffed with insulation and ventilation shafts.

The Bishops got their work done for free, but the costs would be prohibitive for most people. Wall, roof and flooring insulation alone cost £42,000, while ventilation and heating systems were more than £10,000, replacement windows £5,400 and solar panels another £8,600.

Climate 'threat to African food security' - SouthAfrica.info

The food security threat posed by climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the African continent, says Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.

"Africa has the responsibility to feed the world as well as its own African people, but we are faced with enormous climate change constraints such as severe drought, floods dreadful diseases," Joemat-Pettersson told BuaNews on Friday.

Nothing we can do to control the weather | TriCities.com

Fact! Global temperature variations over time are affected by direct radiation from the sun, solar wind and flares, natural migration of the earth’s magnetic poles, eccentricity in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, water vapor and clouds. The tiny role played by carbon dioxide in the greenhouse effect is so small it can be ignored, now and forever.

The bottom line is that man cannot control the weather. Some, of course, want us to pay them to talk about doing something about it.

AFP: UN chief vows 'real results' on climate change

TARAWA, Kiribati — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday vowed to the leader of Kiribati, a low-lying Pacific nation threatened by rising seas, to keep pressing for "real results" against climate change.