New Zealand: `350' event supported | Otago Daily Times Online

The Dunedin City Council is to support a new global day of action on climate change, after one city councillor questioned its credentials.
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The safe level was established by Dr James Hansen, a scientist with Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

However, speaking at yesterday's council finance and strategy committee meeting, Cr Michael Guest questioned whether the council should be signing up to the initiative based only on the opinions of "one American scientist".

He was concerned a staff report to yesterday's committee meeting made no mention of whether the Ministry for the Environment supported the event.

The report listed nine centres - including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch - which were planning events, but Cr Guest said he wanted to know the ministry's position before considering "this sort of fluffery seriously".

"It's a paper with one US scientist saying he knows it all and he wants the whole world to shut down for a day."

However, Cr Guest then decided to support the initiative, after Cr John Bezett - who expressed "some sympathy" for Cr Guest's views - said he backed the event because other credible organisations did.

[Regarding caribou, more questionable climate claims]: Discovery News

...Logging has changed much of their habitat from old-growth forests to leafier vegetation.

That habitat shift has also boosted the food supply for burgeoning populations of moose and deer, which in turn, has boosted the food supply for wolves.
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Climate change is another problem, albeit an indirect one. For one thing, warming has increased mosquito populations to the point where caribou spend so much time running around and shaking off insects that they don't eat enough to make it through winter with a good supply of stored body fat.
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...spring is getting greener earlier that it used to, but caribou haven't adjusted the timing of their migrations. As a result, birthing females are missing out on the freshest vegetation and the chance to build up the highest-quality milk for their calves.