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Climate Change News Digest
- Developing countries split on CO2
- A major split between developing countries emerges on the third morning of UN climate talks in Copenhagen. [?]
- Poor nations await UN Kyoto cash
- Poor countries suffering from the effects of climate change are yet to receive a penny from a flagship United Nations fund, the BBC learns. [?]
- Rivers wash otters out of homes
- A Somerset wildlife charity takes in a record number of otters this winter as higher than normal river levels threaten their habitat. [?]
- Watergate Redux: Another Paranoid Right-wing Break-in
- Great Richard Grave piece on Huffington Post points out the parallel's between the curret "gate" - Climategate - and the original paranoid right wing break-in that gate rise to the unimaginative, but in this case appropriate suffix. As Graves points out, Watergate showed the worst side of a paranoid right-wing group clinging desperately to power. They committed a quite famous break-in, got nothing useful for their troubles and then crashed historically trying to cover their tracks. This "gate" began the same way. We can only hope it ends with similar calamity for the perpetrators.<!--break--> [?]
- Chancellor announces boiler scrappage scheme
- Some 125,000 new boilers and doubling of commitment to carbon capture and storage included in Alistair Darling's speechA new boiler "scrappage" scheme to help 125,000 households replace their old boilers with new, more efficient models was among a series of green measures in the pre-budget report today.Chancellor Alistair Darling said the programme, similar to the trade-in scheme for cars, would enable the installation of more efficient boilers for heating and hot water in houses to cut greenhouse gases and domestic bills.He also announced that householders with wind turbines or solar panels on their homes who feed excess power back into the grid would receive an average of £900 a year under the "feed-in tariff" scheme which starts in April - a payment which would be tax-free.And an extra £200 million would go to helping people make their homes more ... [?]
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