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RSPB accused of hypocrisy for killing hundreds of birds on its reserves | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The RSPB has admitted killing hundreds of birds on its reserves, prompting an accusation of "extraordinary hypocrisy" from the Countryside Alliance.

The RSPB recently criticised the licenced destruction of buzzard eggs and nests to protect a pheasant shoot and said a cull of lesser black-backed gulls should be halted. But on Thursday the charity revealed it too had destroyed lesser black backed gulls and other birds that were harming native species.

Statement by EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard on the conclusion of the climate change talks in Bonn - News - Connie Hedegaard - Climate Action

I remain concerned that many of our major negotiating partners do not yet seem ready to engage beyond restating positions of principle.

Climate Change versus Groundhogs: Even Common Species Will Suffer | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network

Any change in amount of duration of annual snow cover can also be deadly, because the marmots’ fat reserves are usually carefully balanced for the weather to which they have long become adapted.  [Maybe that explains why they all die every time the weather fluctuates?]

Twitter / suzyji: Interesting Department of ...

[Maybe this explains why the weather has been so much better than expected lately?] Interesting Department of Energy’s Crusade Against Leaks of a Potent Greenhouse Gas Yields Results http://nyti.ms/10gMIT5