Bird size could help gauge ecosystem health

Climate change is making British great tits thinner, once the effects of predators are taken into account.

A paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that warmer winters are letting the birds get away with lower average weights, since they don't need such big reserves of energy.

Green Ink: Drumming up Support for the Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Sen. John Kerry is taking point on the climate bill fight. First, a new report stressing the need for more cooperation with China, though with few new ideas, in AP. He’s also pushing for a stronger national-security component to the climate bill in a bid to draw more support from across the aisle, in Grist.

SOCIALIST UNITY » Vestas demo Whitehall

I get the impression, I was late having spoken at the demonstration against the coup in Honduras, at the US Embassy, that the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group, Socialist Party, SWP, Climate Camp and others had all mobilised strongly.

Plenty of ecosocialists from Socialist Resistance and Green Left. Andy Hewett from Green Left read out a solidarity statement from Hugo Blanco the Peruvian revolutionary who led an uprising of campesinos in the 1960s and now edits Lucha Indigena…the indigenous of Peru were very keen to convey their solidarity as they have known repression from defending their environment.

SOCIALIST UNITY » The 'I’m-more-Marxist-than-you pissing competition'

What passes as politics in “the left” as we have it in this country can degenerate to little more than a ridiculous I’m-more-Marxist-than-you pissing competition.