Thursday, June 23, 2011

Experts puzzled by big decline in honeybees over winter | Environment | The Guardian
Beekeepers are puzzled by the decline because the cold winter and early spring should have favoured bees.
Maine group vows to continue wind power fight - WQOW TV: Eau Claire, WI NEWS18 News, Weather, and Sports
FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) - Environmental activists in Maine are vowing to continue their opposition to industrial wind power projects in the state.
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Maine Earth First's Jessie Dowling says the group feels strongly that industrial wind is a false solution to climate change. The Sun Journal reports members remain committed to defending Maine's mountain forests as a habitat for rare and endangered species.
Abbott under fire over Lord's 'Nazi' jibe
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is still planning to share the stage at a mining conference with Christopher Monckton, despite distancing himself from the prominent climate sceptic's depiction of a key government adviser as a Nazi.
[NPR blogger criticizes Al Gore?!] : It's All Politics : NPR
While casting blame, Gore doesn't deal much, if at all, with some of the challenging and legitimate questions that go beyond the science and into the realpolitik of the global-warming issue.

For instance, let's say the U.S. enacted caps on its greenhouse gas emitters. If China, India and other faster growing economies didn't, what then? Indeed, those nations could even see unilateral U.S. caps as giving them additional room to emit more carbon into the atmosphere.

Also, if caps drove up the costs of U.S. production, wouldn't that put the U.S. at a disadvantage in terms of exports? And if producers passed along their higher production costs to consumers, how would that help an economy struggling to reach higher levels of growth and job creation?

Gore doesn't really deal with these questions.
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To a large degree, news outlets are responding to their consumers by giving them Trump and Sheen. If global warming stories drew eyeballs to web site like Sheen did, does anyone doubt news sites would be awash in global warming stories?

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