BBC News - 'New release' of climate emails

[Richard Black] What appears to be a new batch of emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has been released.

I wonder how Richard Black learned about this story.

BBC News - 2011 Christmas trees from Norway will be smaller due to frost damage

Norway supplies many of Europe's Christmas trees and this year's crop has been hit by a combination of frost and fungi damage meaning the trees will be smaller, and shorter.

[Take that, hippies]: Frost and low prices hurting lentil harvest

Grain growers in western Victoria have started harvesting lentils, but are battling low prices and frost damage.

Some paddocks of lentils were frosted earlier in the season, showing up as damage in this year's harvest.

Little India - Sterilize the Rich

During the notorious era of the emergency in India from 1975 to 1977, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi pursued a coercive family planning program in which an estimated 8 million poor Indian men were forcibly sterilized.

During the past few decades, some of the most brutal family planning tactics have been rolled back, because of right wing backlash in the United States.

VirtueOnline - News - As Eye See It - Sacrificing to the Green Gods - Dave Doveton

Prophets of environmental doom are of course nothing new. The environmentalist movement of today has its roots in the eco-alarm movements of the last 40 years. In his book "Eco-Scam: The false prophets of ecological collapse" Ronald Bailey catalogues several leaders and movements, quite respected in their day, who on the grounds of much research and theorising, predicted imminent catastrophic environmental disasters.