Starbucks concerned world coffee supply is threatened by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Starbucks sustainability chief Jim Hanna says the coffee giant has been pushing the Obama administration to little result
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Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change.

In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company's sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a changing climate, with severe hurricanes and more resistant bugs reducing crop yields.
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It was the second warning in less than a month of a threat to a food item many people can't live without.
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Hanna is to travel to Washington on Friday to brief members of Congress on climate change and coffee at an event sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Climate change: off the boil | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

by keeping up the price of carbon, it could drive up the retail price of electricity – something which may be unavoidable, but which is bound to be controversial when every 1% on fuel bills pushes another 60,000 households into fuel poverty.

Why is the government drifting so far from its green pledges? | Tony Juniper | Environment | guardian.co.uk

In recent months there has been a distinct 1980s feel to ministerial pronouncements on environmental goals, especially from George Osborne. His narrative that green policies are a drag on business and an alternative to economic recovery portrays a deep misunderstanding of where the debate is now at, including among business leaders.

Detroit Gets Gored - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Ignoring the urban battlefield around him, Gore has more ideas how the Left might destroy the rest of Michigan.