| Flying clouds the real climate culprit
It is already the largest single source of carbon emissions after energy, contributing up to 10 times as much as aviation. The Stern Report, no less, warned that rainforest destruction alone would, in the next four years, release more carbon into the atmosphere than every flight from the dawn of aviation until 2025. Burning forests produces a particularly nasty double whammy of warming. As they burn, they send vast swathes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And once they're gone, they can't soak up the carbon from industry, cars and power plants. But despite all this, people get far more exercised over the evils of aviation than they ever do over forest loss. This is partly because aviation looms large on those instant "carbon calculators", designed to give a rough-and-ready guide to an individual's impact.
David Jones denies corporate paedophillia claims
MARK COLVIN: There's a furious row between the retailer, David Jones, and the think-tank, the Australia Institute, over a report which accused big stores of "corporate paedophilia".
The Australia Institute paper accuses the makers of a number of advertising and marketing campaigns of "sexualising" children.
But several companies identified in the report have strenuously denied the charge. And the Australia Institute says David Jones has threatened to sue.
Kathryn Roberts reports.
KATHRYN ROBERTS: The standoff between retailers and the Australia Institute has escalated with the Institute's Executive Director Dr Clive Hamilton making this allegation.
CLIVE HAMILTON: David Jones rang me this morning demanding that the Institute remove all references to David Jones.
Illini fight trying to overcome absence of Pruitt
I swear, this Illini basketball team can wear a person out. I can only imagine what it might be like to be coaching it or playing on it. The latest chapter in this often-puzzling saga started Tuesday night with news that senior center Shaun Pruitt, the team's leading scorer and rebounder, would not play. Pruitt was wearing his warmups but did not participating in shooting drills. And he never got into the game. The reason? We were told it was not academic, not a legal matter and not an injury. Then, after Illinois' 64-58 loss at Ohio State, Bruce Weber had this to say: “As for Shaun Pruitt, it's a team matter, a family matter. It's being handled internally. We hope he has a positive attitude and we get him back involved with us. That's what we're hoping he'll do the rest of the week.
AG Brown: East Palo Alto 'Murder Capital' No More
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown visited East Palo Alto Tuesday to tout a recent local and state effort to crack down on violence in the city once dubbed the murder capital of the United States.
Following an outbreak of violence that police say resulted in six homicides and 67 firearm assaults between November and January, a nine-month combined effort began between community members, police and the state Department of Justice. Critics: Too Early To Call EPA Crime Crackdown A Success The program, Project Safe Neighborhood, was aimed at curbing drug trafficking and gang violence in East Palo Alto. .
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