What is the climate anyway?
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines climate as the "prevailing weather conditions of an area". Basically, climate is the long-term weather tendencies in any given area - or in the world as a whole. It's not about the weather on any given day, it's about the average weather over a long period of time.
So what's climate change?
An eight-month investigation by Oxfordshire County Council has concluded that a rubbish-burning scheme is the best solution to the county's waste disposal problems, despite concern that this method of waste disposal will allow dioxins (which have been linked to cancer in humans and other animals) to enter the local food chain.
US charities set up to fight AIDS are now faced with a new battle: a requirement by the federal government to pledge their opposition to sex trafficking and prostitution if they want to continue receiving federal funds.
The anti-prostitution pledge requirement, part of the 2003 Global AIDS Act, has applied to overseas
recipients of US funds since Congress passed the bill, but the Justice Department initially questioned whether applying the requirement to US organisations would be in breach of the US constitution. The department has now given the pledge requirement the go-ahead.
