How the US Shale Boom Will Change the World

The US has Three Times the Proven Reserves of Saudi Arabia in Shale Oil.

Gingrich's Limbaugh troubles spell out climate divide – USATODAY.com

What came next out of the rabbit's hat was an even bigger surprise. Hate mail. Threats against her and her child. So much that she told the Toronto Globe and Mail that she had lost count of all the angry messages aimed at her, a mother who happened to be a scientist telling people what all the evidence suggests is the truth about their world.

"There's a pattern of attacking people who speak out on climate change, by figures in the political elite such as Rush Limbaugh, that is almost rehearsed," Brulle says. "That's how it works," he says. "That's how public opinion on climate is shaped in our country."

"Every scientist who speaks out on climate science can expect pushback, it's par for the course," Hayhoe says. " My initial instinct said just to hide. But I made a conscious decision on behalf of all my colleagues in science to tell people what was going on."

So she did. And something else happened after the Toronto story and a Texas Climate Newspiece that followed it. "The hate mail almost completely died off," Hayhoe says.

Commemoration for those who died in the street - Kiev | Demotix.com

Since early February, when severe frosts came to Ukraine, more than 150 people have died in the country, according to the Ministry of Emergency information. Most of them - homeless. Unfortunately, the realities suggest that this figure is not true. Real one is much more bigger. For the sake of "saving" the statistics Ukrainian officials rewrite "death from hypothermia," for cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, and dozens of other diseases.

Melting ice on Danube damages 100s of boats | ksl.com

Officials said Monday that as ice floes up to 1.6 feet (half a meter) thick began to break up in the Belgrade area, hundreds of parked boats crashed into each other and several barges were swept away.

Heartland launches legal action against climate change bloggers and journalists | Crikey

Greg Laden, a climate blogger at ScienceBlogs who also received the legal letter threat, agrees that the legal letter was confusing. Laden thought at first that the legal letter “looked like something some crazy denialist made up and sent me” since the  letter he received via email didn’t include his name in full (it’s Gregory), the title was wrong (he’s a doctor) and the address was wrong (he doesn’t live at the address or know anyone who does).

“As far as I can tell looking at it, no one I know who is a lawyer would retain staff who are as incompetent as those who wrote this letter,” said Laden.

How can Heartland seek action against a document it says is a fake? “They can’t take down a document they have nothing to do with,” said Laden. “If it’s made up and has nothing to do with Heartland, it would be difficult for them to argue that I should take it down off my website.”

But he sees the legal letter as a threat from Heartland against those who write about climate change and climate science. “It’s obvious to me Heartland is interested in making people who argue against their point of view quiet,” said Larden. “They want people to shut up.”

Crikey understands The New York Times will tomorrow reveal the identity of Heartland’s “Anonymous Donor”, an individual who has donated $13.7 million to the Heartland Institute since 2007 and at times has provided 60% of the institute’s funding.