Sea Ice News Volume 3 #1 – The “Arctic Institute” pwns itself | Watts Up With That?

UPDATE: 3/5 8:30PM PST There’s a hilarious backstory on the sockpuppetry that went on yesterday from the founder of The Arctic Institute – read my comment on it here

Gender Advocates in Northern Mindanao vow to plant trees | Sun.Star

MEMBERS of the Gender Advocates in Northern Mindanao (GA-X) vow to plant 10 trees every year starting this 2012 in line with the National Greening Program (NGP) of President Benigno Aquino’s administration.

...The celebration was participated by GA-X members composed mainly of men and women of the various government agencies in the region, with the theme “Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility.”

Climate hockey stick threatens…pond hockey | Watts Up With That?

From the Canadian Department of Redundancy and the Journal of Paleohockey comes this hilarious study via press release that I first thought was a spoof. Sadly it is all too real. This a candidate for the Dr. David Viner Award.*

Children just aren’t going to know what hockey is.

Faith Leader to Conservation Groups: ‘Who Needs Whom?’ on Climate | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

He speaks of a meeting in the U.S. with leading conservation leaders saying they wanted “to get the churches active on climate change.”

“I said, how long have you had a climate change unit? They said, eight years,” Palmer continued. “I said, the National Council of Churches in the United States has had a climate change unit for 20 years. So, who is needing whom?”

From The Peter Gleick Philosophy Corner | Real Science

When is it OK to burn witches?

Suppose that you have inside information (for example your own forged document) that a certain group of people are adversely affecting the climate. What level of criminal behaviour is justified to save the planet?