Very good and sensible ideas, but all for naught.

WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2008 (ENS) - If global warming continues unchecked, by 2100, New York City will feel like Las Vegas does today and San Francisco will have a climate comparable to that of today's New Orleans. In 2100, Boston will have average temperatures like those in Memphis, Tennessee today.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/2008-05-23-01.asp

What this means is that if it continues to cool as it has since 1998, then New York will warm up about 15-20 degrees by the end of the century. San Francisco will apparently no longer be next to the Pacific Ocean.

It is nice that the AGW press coverage is dominated by the ravings of complete morons.

Kiwi Party sceptics on global warming
May 24, 2008 11:50 AM

The Kiwi Party is the latest to declare its hand on Emissions Trading, describing the government's scheme as a joke and calling for it to be scrapped.

Leader Larry Baldock feels the proposed scheme would put the economy under the stress of increased regulation and says that would be a stupid move, when there is no evidence to prove global warming. He says he is yet to see proof the Earth's average temperature has increased since 1998.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1794960

Nothing wrong with recycling and finding ways to use what would otherwise represent waste/landfilled materials. Seems on the other hand to be completely irrelevant to the supposed mission of Katie's segment, which is to present an unbiased view of both sides of the CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE. Unless I'm missing something, efforts to recycle and find good uses for waste materials, while certainly being desirable from an environmental perspective (not to mention from an economic perspective, if such activities reduce the Seattle Market's costs of doing business), have absolutely nothing to do with climate change.

Reply: Also, remember her segment is titled "Headline Earth"

More trouble in paradise - this time from a previously dependable left wing rag

Billions wasted on UN climate programme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/26/climatechange.greenpolitics

We too have a farmer's market that is growing. For the most part there is no waste that is left behind by vendors. Whatever is not sold that day is packed back up and brought back again if still fresh enough.

The idea of collecting restaurant waste would be a good one I am sure. My one suggestion to all restaurants is too only plate what is an appropriate amount of food that will be consumed at one sitting. So I am saying that the waste that is generated by restaurants is because portion size is too big. My family owns a restaurant and for the most part all plates come back licked clean because we have tried to gauge the portion size that is reasonable. The waste we do generate is doing the prep work which could be composted. We already recycle all of our boxes, glass, plastic, etc. We also generate very little grease from our kitchen because we try to avoid clogging arteries as much as possible.