West Nile virus outbreaks appear linked to heat and drought - latimes.com

The potential role of environmental factors in this year’s outbreak also raises a discomforting idea: That changes in climate may lead to unpredictable changes in disease propagation. If we are likely to have more extremely hot, drought-filled summers in the future, we would also seem more likely to have more serious outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases.

Flashback: Silver lining in historic U.S. drought: fewer mosquitoes | Reuters

(Reuters) - Something good is coming out of one of the worst droughts in the United States in decades -- fewer mosquitoes.

UN panel flags Kyoto carbon market overhaul | EurActiv

A high–level UN panel has proposed a hard-hitting package to reform the centrepiece of the carbon market established by the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

The panel recommends establishing a new fund to buy and cancel some of the carbon credit glut that has depressed prices. It also suggests phasing out the issuance of credits to controversial industrial gas projects altogether.

As Arctic Sea Ice Melts Thanks to Climate Change, Drilling for Oil | Science and Space | TIME.com

The state of the Arctic, which is bad, may have just made the dreaded jump to worse...If the threat of an ice-free Arctic in a couple of decades doesn’t get the public’s attention, nothing will.

Twenty thousand years ago, with ice a mile thick in what is now Illinois, would warmist Walsh have been terrified at the prospect of an ice-free Chicago?