Christopher Booker: Greens Routed As Shale Gas Wins New Enthusiasts | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Last week saw a truly momentous defeat for the green lobby groups which, in the past decade, have exercised almost complete control over Britain’s future energy policy. The fact that this took the form of a mighty slapdown for Lord Deben (formerly John Gummer), newly confirmed chairman of the Climate Change Committee, makes it all the more telling.

Tracking polar bears across the Arctic ice | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Bears travel big distances, they can swim hundreds of miles, from Greenland as far as Iceland. They are a constant presence in northern Greenland.
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"Each team perhaps has to shoot one only every four or five years, whereas some Inuit communities have licences to kill 30 a year for food. I have never eaten bear.

India should reject CDM Recommendations, urges CSE

New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says, report’s recommendations do nothing to correct the drawbacks of CDM. Instead, they are geared towards saving ailing carbon markets and private profits and are completely inadequate to achieve the much-needed real reforms in CDM.

A Story Exposes How the Chinese Government is Fueling Elephant Slaughter - NYTimes.com

the story shows how, at several levels, the Chinese government has cornered the ivory market and, by raising prices, intensified poaching pressure on elephants.

Lewandowsky’s Cleansing Program « Climate Audit

Today, Lewandowsky (who is being assisted by an SkS squadron) liquidated every single comment by Fuller on the entire blog, leaving rebuttals to Fuller in place without the protagonist. This is different from not approving the blog comments: it’s an after-the-fact cleansing of Fuller from the blog.

The University of Western Australia should hang its head in shame at Lewandowsky’s Gleickian antics.