Monday, March 08, 2010

Newsmax - Gore: Organized Campaign Behind Climate Skeptics
Former Vice President Al Gore says critics of his global warming warnings are part of a "massive, organized campaign."
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* Gore said he still has a long ways to go in his effort to educate the world about climate change. "I have thus far failed, and our world has thus fair failed to respond adequately to this crisis," he said.
Texas: Cold winter alters fish & wildlife’s schedule
With the much colder than average winter across much of Texas, I’m convinced that the patterns of fish and game are running at least a couple weeks behind schedule. From recent reports, large flocks of snow geese are still staged along the coastal prairies; usually the birds have already begun their migration back to their nesting ground in Alaska and Canada.
Scotland - Farmers help after harsh winter
NFU Scotland President, Jim McLaren said: “Scotland has experienced some of the worst winter weather since records began. Between December of last year and the last week of February, it is estimated that almost 3000 farm buildings across Scotland collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. For many farmers, that has created a major headache in terms of providing temporary accommodation for their livestock at this crucial time as we enter the main lambing and calving period.
Business & Technology | IMF suggests how to raise climate change [scam] funds | Seattle Times Newspaper
NAIROBI, Kenya —The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy.
World's nature 'becoming extinct at fastest rate on record', conservationists warn - Telegraph
Previously research has shown that world was currently in the midst of a "sixth great extinction" of species, which was being driven by natural habitat destruction, hunting, increasing number of alien predators, disease and climate change.  [Why is The Most Important Problem Ever listed last?]

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