Central, eastern China to face cold snap

The gales caused by the cold snap may bring dusty weather to northern China once again this spring.

Film Review: Greedy Lying Bastards - Film Reviews - Detroit Metro Times

Like a middle schooler on an Xbox-and-Mountain Dew binge, the movie bounces between topics and themes with drunken abandon, trying to link forest fires in California, the plight of flooded island nations, media subterfuge, congressional fecklessness and vast corporate conspiracies into one frenetic tapestry. The flick works best when it laser-targets the shameless, well-financed mouthpieces for industry interests who cloud every attempt at every a serious discussion of global fossil fuel consumption. Particularly odious is a creature called “Lord Christopher Monkton,” a vociferous, camera-hungry denier who is neither a scientist nor an actual lord nor any sort of British peer.
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This may seem too trivial a complaint, but Rosebaugh has a thin, high-pitched voice, and a mildly grating persona that wears on the viewer after a while. Despite all the scorn heaped on him by opponents, Michael Moore is still the master of the personality-driven outrage documentary, and the talent gap between him and his imitators is as stark as a melting iceberg falling into the sea.

Tom Zeller Jr.: Clean Power Collateral Damage: Of Birds, Tortoises And The Transition From Fossil Fuels

Is kickstarting a clean-energy industry and accelerating a movement away from fossil fuels worth the expense of, say, a few desert tortoises or a collection of piping plovers? If so, how many of these threatened species would you be willing to sacrifice to build a commercial wind farm, or a utility-scale solar array?

China to allow HFC 23 offsets in domestic CO2 markets - News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters Point Carbon) – China’s biggest polluting firms will be able to use carbon credits from factories that produce refrigerant gases to meet future emission caps, rules that observers say could depress the future carbon price in the world’s biggest emitting nation and keep international prices at record lows.

Flashback: UN Carbon Trading Scheme: $2.7 Billion Market Could Be 'Biggest Environmental Scandal In History'

"The evidence is overwhelming that manufacturers are creating excess HFC-23 simply to destroy it and earn carbon credits," said Mark Roberts of the Environmental Investigation Agency, a research and advocacy group. "This is the biggest environmental scandal in history and makes an absolute mockery of international efforts to combat climate change.