Jennifer Marohasy

President Barack Obama’s plan to push through climate change legislation as part of his $3,600bn federal budget appeared all but dead on Thursday after the Senate ruled out fast-track action on the issue.  Read more here.

JUST a month ago it was considered really good news when another eight Irrawaddy dolphins were found at Chilika Lake in India bringing the total number to 146.  The lake is considered a principle habitat for this rare species of freshwater dolphin with the world population estimated at just 900.
Much of the global conservation focus has been on populations [...]

Folks,
 
Here’s an interesting report from the “pedigree” US Climate Change Science Program (heavily backed by NOAA).
 
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap1-3/final-report/
 
And a news description of it from the good ole’ National Post:
 
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1453831&p=2
 
I sort of remembering seeing a brief press release on this in December (when it was issued), but I certainly didn’t understand that it was associated with such bombshells [...]

Investor sentiment soared in response to the recommendation that more than $1.4 trillion in financial aid be made available to help boost economic growth.  Read more here.