Still too many questions to link [Minnesota] moose decline to climate change - Timberjay.com

Why isn’t climate change having a similar impact on moose elsewhere?

Climate change isn’t just taking place in Minnesota—yet the decline in the moose population seems to be centered right here. While calf-cow ratios are declining in northwestern Ontario (which may reflect the increased calf harvest by hunters there), researchers there have yet to document any significant decline in moose numbers north of the border.

To the east, moose populations are growing significantly in eastern Canada and in New England, areas which are not exempt from climate change. Even if they were, temperatures in northern Minnesota are still significantly colder than in any part of New England. If moose are subject to heat stress here, why aren’t they subject to similar stress in New England? Instead, while moose numbers and range are declining in our region, they are growing even in parts of Connecticut, a state at the same latitude as southern Iowa, and with a climate that is just as mild.

Little progress as Bangkok climate talks near closure - YouTube

As the Bangkok climate change talks near their end a number of outstanding issues are yet to be addressed even as negotiators spent long hours in discussions on the future of the earth

Only green age wasteland - Los Angeles Ecopolitics | Examiner.com

Our environmentalist “green age” is over. Progressive eco-propaganda has worn out its welcome in public discourse and policy. Note the lack of green issues emphasis in the 2012 national elections. Practical environmental protections are now an accepted fact of American life. And, their heavy regulatory and economic costs are felt in every American life. Everything “green” costs more, and shackles economic growth and prosperity.

Rushed carbon permit auction to prop up budget

The federal government plans to bolster its sagging budget bottom line by a near tripling of the auction of carbon emissions permits in 2013-14.