China [allegedly] 'taking lead' to combat warming

"China is accelerating action," said Tim Flannery, the co-author and a key figure at the Climate Commission, which brings together internationally-renowned scientists, as well as policy and business leaders. "China has halved its growth in electricity demand, dramatically increased its renewable energy capacity, and decelerated its emissions growth more quickly than expected.

- Bishop Hill blog - Paul and the pug dog

Under Paul Nurse's stewardship, the Royal Society has taken some, ahem, interesting decisions. Its latest though is quite extraordinary. The society has hilariously decided to award the lucrative Wolfson Research Merit award to Stephan Lewandowsky! Jo Nova has the story.
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It's hard to imagine anything funnier. If Manchester United signed up a three-legged pug dog to play centre forward you wouldn't laugh any less.

First Erlich, now Lewandowsky. What next? Homeopaths? A fellowship for Kim Jong Il? A cabbage patch doll?

I wonder what the fellows make of it?

Blogging a Better Planet

[Revkin] I’m thrilled with the launch of EarthDesk. My move from full-time journalism to Pace University in 2010 was largely aimed at testing and teaching new ways to use communication tools to foster progress on a finite planet. My title, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, conveys some of what I’m after...Here’s a great list of 150 green hashtags.

The Ultimate Green Twitter Hashtag List: Build Your Online Green Twitter Following

[From what Revkin calls a "great" list of green hashtags] #climatezombies - This hashtag is used in tweets referring climate change deniers who repeat over and over again the sponsored and often paid for lies promoted by the oil companies that promote the idea that climate change is not happening or that it is not caused by the activities of man, no matter how many times legitimate science proves them wrong – they just keep rising from the dead, like zombies!!