Tea Party a front for the liberal elite

BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama's energy agenda, the Guardian has learned.

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NEWSMEAT ▷ Much of Planet Could See Extreme Drought in 30 Years: Study

NEWSMEAT ▷ Much of Planet Could See Extreme Drought in 30 Years: Study: "'We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in the coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the public and the climate change research community,' said National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Aiguo Dai, who conducted the study.


'If the projections in this study come even close to being realized, the consequences for society worldwide will be enormous,' he said.

Parts of Asia, the United States, and southern Europe, and much of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East could be hit by severe drought in the next few decades, with regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea seeing 'almost unprecedented' drought conditions, the study says."

Road building or city building? Analysis flips current wisdom on its head : Center for Neighborhood Technology

Road building or city building? Analysis flips current wisdom on its head : Center for Neighborhood Technology: "Road building or city building? Analysis flips current wisdom on its head

Are more highways and roads the solution to congestion? A new report says no.

A new analysis by CEOs for Cities finds that congestion has much more to do with how we build our cities than how we build our roads. By challenging the long-promoted measure of what causes traffic, the report reveals the inaccurate assumptions that have directed transportation spending to building more highways and roads rather than creating more compact development."