Simon Fox : Activity

Climate experts say warm U.S. winter is due in part to Arctic Oscillation.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20120211-climate-expert

While Europe suffers a brutal winter of record proportions, the weather has been so mild in the United States that you can slip out some sunny afternoons to the golf course or bike path.

Bitterns: The endangered birds whose population is booming at last.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/12/bittern-populat

The foghorn-like call of one of Britain's most reclusive species is being heard more and more frequently after a concerted effort to restore its wetland habitat. However, experts warn that the bird still faces severe threats posed by climate change.

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/12/summer-drought-

If engineers from the Environment Agency had not started pumping water into Snailwell's pond every day this winter, it would have disappeared weeks ago, the victim of a drought that now threatens much of England with a summer of parched landscapes, rivers reduced to trickles and possible hosepipe bans ahead.

The heat is on the USDA - and the planet.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.twincities.com/life/ci_19930404

The USDA insists it's doing its best to understand what most people older than 30 who venture outdoors from time to time can hardly deny: Our weather ain't what it used to be.

Drilling deeper on talk of U.S. energy independence.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jontalton/2017469989_biztaltoncol1

The elephant in the Oil Patch is that more fossil-fuel use means more greenhouse gases. Climate change is real, human caused and happening faster than anticipated. It will bring costs that we can't drill out of, baby.

Navy goes green with renewable energy at Guantanamo.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120212/NEWS02/702129923

In this remote corner of Cuba that is better known as a lab for Pentagon justice and interrogation, the Navy has been quietly engaging in more low-profile offshore experimentation -- seeking environmentally friendly alternatives to reduce its whopping $100,000 a day fossil fuel dependence.

Uncertainty clouds Obama's latest solar push.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.pe.com/local-news/politics/ben-goad-headlines/

President Barack Obama wants to revive the renewable energy push that fostered a solar development boom in the first years of his administration. But several factors are clouding his effort.

Airlines hope UN can avert carbon trade war.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/IATA-ca

Global airlines called on Sunday for a deal brokered by a United Nations agency to avoid an impasse between China and the European Union spilling into a trade war.

Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-climate-sealevels

U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.

Cutting up rough: Trump and Salmond's love-in blown off course by wind farm plan.

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cutting-up-rough-trum

Donald Trump has more reason than most to fear the Scottish wind. It was during a visit to his mother's grave on the Isle of Lewis that the tycoon's famous comb-over took a battering in the breeze in front of the world's media.