So David Suzuki walks into a bar … - The Globe and Mail

David Suzuki just flew in from Vancouver, and boy is the sniping about his carbon footprint tired.

People find reasons not to like Suzuki, the environmentalist, broadcaster, geneticist and, for one night only, a participant in this year’s Just for Laughs festival (JFL42) in Toronto. They say the government should tax the hot air coming from his mouth. They say he benefits financially from his Vancouver-based non-profit foundation. They say climate change is just a conspiracy perpetrated by the bikini industry...

Suzuki is worried. “At this stage of my life, I’m feeling very desperate,” he says. “The science has become increasingly urgent, and I’m tired of fighting. Can we not come together and leave our vested interests aside and at least come to an agreement that protecting our air [from carbon dioxide?] should be our highest priority?”

McRib delayed from McDonald's until late 2012: blame global warming... | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com

The McDonald's McRib is delayed until late 2012, and there is only global warming to blame.

RI science council program to award $800K to study effects of climate change on marine life

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's governor has announced $800,000 in state grants for researchers studying the effects of climate change on marine life.

A dramatic climatic transition at ~4000 cal. yr BP and its cultural responses in Chinese cultural domains

We propose that the cumulative effects of insolation-dictated declining trend in tropical SST and the geologically documented increasing trend of ENSO activity were the first-order causes of the cooling and the associated drying during the past 6000 years.