65% Say Americans Not Willing To Make Major Lifestyle Changes To Help Environment - Rasmussen Reports™

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 17% of adults believe most Americans would be willing to make major cutbacks in their lifestyle in order to help save the environment. Most (65%) say that’s not the case. Another 18% are not sure.

Clay Farris Naff, Huffington Post: Climate Modelers on the Lam

Hounded by the graying yet still sporadically feisty Washington Post, climate modelers have fled to Sicily, where they have taken refuge among geologists. Little did they reckon on the dogged pursuit of a lone HuffPo blogger. The fleeing modelers, led by Robert DeConto of U. Mass.-Amherst, were still reeling from the WaPo drubbing...

Solar PV in Los Angeles: The emperor has no clothes, says UCLA | Grist

Some of the report's key findings:

* California's share of worldwide solar PV is continuing to decline.
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* Without federal and state subsidies, solar PV cannot pay for itself even in sunny Southern California with current tariffs.

Do birds help curb global warming? - Green OC : The Orange County Register

The early bird catches the worm — and, one UC Irvine scientist says, might also help reduce the effects of global warming.

In a new study published in a scientific journal this week, ecologist and lead author Kailen Mooney shows that birds, bats and lizards consume enough insects to reduce the damage they cause to plants and promote plant growth — by 14 percent on average.