Tiger Moms Craving SUVs Drive Next Wave of Chinese Demand: Cars - Bloomberg

SUV demand in China jumped 20 percent last year, more than triple the growth in total passenger-car deliveries

Mexico passes climate-change law : Nature News & Comment

“We’re very good at making laws. And then the problem is enforcing them,” says Juan Bezaury, an expert in Mexican public policy with the Nature Conservancy in Arlington.

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@GarethPhoenix Hah! no. But [Bill Clinton] did remember citing my work in his 2000 SOTU address, and kindly mentioned me in his speech :)

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NASA GISS Director James Hansen Plays Climate Science Victimization Card.

His efforts include arrests for public protests; giving testimony at a trial in England on behalf of Greenpeace protesters; tampering with data; claiming, falsely, he was “muzzled” by the Bush White House; and claiming climate change was morally comparable to slavery. His political activism recently prompted 50 fellow NASA scientists and engineers to sign a protest. It’s a disgrace he hasn’t been challenged for behaviour unacceptable for a bureaucrat and possibly in violation of the Hatch Act.

World Climate Report » For Wheat and Rice, CO2 is Nice

We have written about the biological benefits of elevated temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels hundreds of times, and we will never run out of new material! Evidence the results of two recent article showing how CO2 improves the yield of wheat and the competitiveness of rice.