De-discombobulating ‘green jobs’ | Grist

for the most part "green jobs" is just an innocuous political slogan and shouldn't be forced to bear all the weight analysts are trying to put on it.

Harsh Winters, EHD Hurt North Dakota Deer | Field & Stream

Three straight harsh winters that increased mortality among adult deer and severely dampened fawn recruitment.

“These harsh winters have put so much stress on adult does that they don’t have the reserves to reproduce effectively,” said Bruce Stillings, big-game supervisor for the North Dakota Game & Fish Department. “This is especially apparent among mule deer numbers where just this year we’ve seen the lowest fawn production since we started keeping track by in the 1950s.”

Why the Politicized Climate Debate is Even More Politicized Than it Need Be | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

This sort of cocooning balkanizes public debate, Kristof argued. In theory, we may believe in the clash of opinions, “but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber,” he wrote.

This tendency is most pronounced in the blogosphere. For example, climate skeptics and contrarians naturally gravitate to What’s Up With That and those passionately concerned about global warming seek sustenance at Climate Progress, to cite two popular climate sites that are on opposite ends of the debate.

But it seems that our Web habits — everything from our Google searches to our personalized Yahoo! news sites — may be sealing that cocoon even tighter.

It's Heating Or Eating In Winter For Us, Pensioners Warn London Mayor

Pensioners today urged Boris Johnson to tackle fuel poverty as it emerged that more vulnerable people than ever are struggling to pay their energy bills. More than one in four people in the capital are currently unable to meet their energy bills as rising prices and welfare reforms threaten to send even more into fuel poverty.

A report by London Councils today warns that rising fuel prices means that fuel poverty could be a key issue this winter.