Plants gobbling up CO2 – 45% more than thought | Watts Up With That?

From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres a clear indication for those “CO2 is plant food” scoffers that they plants don’t care what they think.

Productivity of land plants may be greater than previously thought

Economists: Every $1 of electricity from coal does $2 in damage to U.S. | Grist

All told, coal plants cause $53 billion in damage every year. And none of that even takes climate impacts into account.

Heathrow campaigners hit US as battle with the airline industry goes global | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This Saturday, transport campaigner John Stewart and I will be heading, through video-conferencing and in person, to New York, to mark the start of a US-wide Aviation Justice Express tour, in which we will tell the story how activists triumphed at Heathrow.

Crandall Who? | The New Republic

[Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy] is deeply skeptical of the scientific consensus that global warming is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, preferring to lend credence to outsider theories for climate change, such as sunspot activity or a shift of Earth's magnetic north redirecting ocean currents. He has withering criticism for fellow energy executives who are looking for ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, saying they are in it for their own gain and will harm the economy.