Trenberth still hyping extreme weather events and climate change | Watts Up With That?

Despite the recent editorial in Nature saying that there’s no current connection between the two, NCAR’s Dr. Kenneth Trenberth is going to pitch connections between extreme weather and climate change anyway at an upcoming seminar at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Peter Foster: Climate hype via Hogwarts Lab | FP Comment | Financial Post

The report was produced by a Madrid-based “humanitarian” organization, DARA, and under the aegis of a group of 20 countries — such as Bangladesh and the Maldives — whose top priority is to get their hands on the annual US$100-billion climate slush fund that developed countries promised after the debacle of Copenhagen.

Electric cars can help climate

A Greater Victoria project has resulted in 50,000 litres of used cooking oil being burned to power buses, which has kept 150 tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions out of the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands and the action of forest fires results in the release of about 439 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year, while new growth entirely counteracts this effect, absorbing 450 gigatonnes per year

Paterson challenges 'inappropriate' rural renewables - 09 Oct 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

Environment secretary Owen Paterson has today taken a swipe at onshore wind energy and promised to make it "easy" for shale gas developers to get permits.

Addressing the Conservative Party conference this morning, Paterson failed to make any mention of climate change, further fuelling fears his stance on green issues is less than sympathetic.