“What you need to point out to these people is that global warming is just the latest of a long line of efforts on the part of liberals around the world to grow government, to raise taxes, to increase regulation, and to limit the behavior of a free people, because that is their real objective.” Thanks, Mr. Limbaugh.

“We have observed that Cizik and others are using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time, notably the sanctity of human life, the integrity of marriage and the teaching of sexual abstinence and morality to our children,” said the letter, which was signed by prominent religious conservatives such as James Dobson, Don Wildmon, Paul Weyrich and Gary Bauer.

Google invests in the transportation technology of the future: the bicycle.

Tucker Carlson, an MSNBC talk-show host best known for wearing a bow-tie at an absurdly young age, took Al Gore to task for emitting carbon.

HONG KONG – Turquoise fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world’s live reef fish industry, a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean.

Considered a delicacy, demand for coral fish has exploded in line with China’s booming economy and some species such as the humphead wrasse are already endangered.

James Inhofe, whose understanding of climate change has done little burnish the reputation of either the Republican Party, or his native Oklahoma (he’s the fellow who called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”), is digging in his heels to try to make sure that the Live Earth concert doesn’t happen at the Capitol.

The buildings in which we live and work account for a large part of the climate changing gases that are of great concern to citizens and scientists alike. What we do in our homes and offices translates into polluting emissions, wastewater and garbage.

Madonna, Bloc Party and Razorlight are among the acts set to take part in Live Earth, a global series of concerts aimed at raising awareness of climate change.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keane and Duran Duran are also scheduled to perform at Wembley Stadium on July 7, the focal point of a series of gigs due to take place worldwide and inspired by former US vice-president Al Gore.

Xiongsen is the world’s biggest battery farm for rare animals. Located just outside the southern Chinese city of Guilin, it is smaller than Regent’s Park but holds 1,300 tigers – almost as many as the whole of India – as well as hundreds of bears, lions and birds. The stock is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in China, where consumers pay high prices for remedies, tonics and aphrodisiacs made from rare species. But until now the park has only been able to bank its assets in cold storage because of a ban on tiger products.

Put celebrity environmental activists in a room with top Bush administration officials and a meeting of the minds could result. At least that is a theoretical possibility.