Scientology's plans for Canada:  

It's under fire in Hollywood. But that hasn't stopped the church from a massive expansion north of the border. Inside the famously secretive world of
Scientology.              

By Nicholas Kohler

Seeking nominations for climate change advisers

The Hill (3 OCT 2012), by Ben Geman

The Interior Department is creating a panel of outside experts to help steer its scientific work on the effects of climate change on natural resources.

The department, in a notice to be published Thursday, will seek nominations for the new, roughly 25-member “Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science.”

Science Daily (2 OCT 2012)

Greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of Earth that will cause sea levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. 

The results come from a study, published today (Oct. 2) in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, which sought to model sea-level changes over millennial timescales, taking into account all of Earth's land ice and the warming of the oceans -- something which has not been done before.