UK: Wind farm subsidies to top £1bn this year | JunkScience.com

Why German Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber & Co. Will Become The Object Of Ridicule For Future Generations

Once again German Professor Hans-Joachim (John) Schellnhuber is calling for limiting democracy and transfering policy-making power to a wiser, elite group of scientists.

Dr. Peter Heller here examines the answers given by Schellnhuber in a recent interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and then tells us why Schellnhuber’s power-grab will fail.

Just stop raining already! In unusual editorial, The Times of London attacks the UK weather | StarTribune.com

In its editorial, The Times lamented that the country was full of discounted swimwear, unsold garden furniture, and unused barbecues.

Global warming draws diet of seabird chicks to Scottish coast - Scotland - Scotsman.com

ONE of Scotland’s rarest seabirds is making a dramatic comeback in its colonies bordering the North Sea because of climate change.

Numbers of lesser black-backed gulls at some coastal colonies on the east coast have doubled, and scientists believe there is a direct link between the boom in chicks and an 
explosion in the number of swimming crabs that form a major part of their diet...
Dr Richard Kirby, from the Marine Institute at Plymouth University, explained that the increase in gull numbers was part of a “cascade” of effects on the food chain in the North Sea since the temperature of the waters began rising more than three decades ago.  [Wait, what?!  I thought temperatures began rising a couple of hundred years ago, allegedly because of the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.]