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2014 Climate Change Calendar

Key dates for your diary in 2014, a year where the scale and ambition of a UN global warming treaty will be determined

- Bishop Hill blog - The eagle has crash landed

I few days back I was pressing Harry Huyton, the RSPB's climate change bod, about the society's weak opposition to wind farms. His position is that the RSPB opposes windfarms when inappropriately sited. I pointed out that windfarms tend to be in upland areas, where raptors - particularly prone to wind turbine collisions - tend to be found in large numbers.

Children of the corn subsidies - SFGate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., are about as opposite politically as two people can be. Nonetheless, last week they joined forces to introduce a bill to repeal the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline.

Why Tornadoes Are Stronger In Cool Years | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

We already know that stronger tornadoes were more common in the period up to the mid 1970’s, but Roy comes up with the reasons why this should be so.