Alberta carbon capture strategy falters | JunkScience.com

Recent cancellations of flagship projects suggest Alberta may have to return to the drawing board. Because it’s the largest emitting province, this constitutes a major setback for Canada’s emissions strategy.

Twitter / omnologos: EU to channel green subsid

EU to channel green subsidies to gas + block shale gas extraction. In other news: the EU is now run from Moscow. ‪#anothergreenfailure‬ ‪#agw

Youth to speak up for the polar regions at UN Rio+20 Earth Summit | Students on Ice Blog

The group of 14 young people, aged 17-24, is from Canada, Norway and Hong Kong and will soon be lobbying for the Arctic and Antarctica in Brazil at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) from June 17-24.

Global Green Agenda Continues To Fail | Via Meadia

Those who want to follow the latest stage in the futile march of the global greens can read the BBC dispatch on the global non-summit; the air of despair hanging over the process comes through loud and clear. These are bureaucrats who realize they are becoming so irrelevant that they may soon face the grim possibility of budget cuts: as of now, there are no funds available for the next global green gabfest, tentatively scheduled for Bangkok.

Concern about the climate, we continue to believe at Via Meadia, is not misplaced, but the crazy set of unrealistic objectives, laughable foreign aid boondoggles, Malthusian panic mongering and cockamamie treaty plans made this UN process a clown circus that was doomed to fail — and the sooner, the better.  There was a time — as recently as early 2010 — when the Great and the Good, the Champions of the Conventional Wisdom and the Oracles of the Davoisie identified this forlorn negotiation as the wave of the future and the last best hope of man.

Climate change may impact wheat productivity in Punjab - The Times of India

"As per the research work done on the impact of climate change in Punjab, wheat production will come down by 1% in the next 10 years. Growth of plants will get stunted and crop will mature before time, which will have a staggering impact on the productivity of the crop," said Dr S B Roy, former professor at IIT and currently serving the Indian Institute of Bio Social Research and Development, Kolkata.