Back to Work for some and Benefits Withdrawn for Others?

The House of Commons has been called back to work as a result of the riots. The work in the case of the commons is to debate, have meetings, make pronouncements and generally blow their hot air around that famous chamber in Westminster. One thing that the members of Parliament may not like is a suggestion by some 100,000 people that those convicted of rioting offences should have their benefits withdrawn. 

A New Climate Change Feedback

One of the problems of assessing the pace of climate change is measuring feedbacks. Feedbacks are, in climate science, reactions to external things that change climates. For example as the atmosphere warms so the atmosphere holds more water vapour. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas and this increase in atmospheric water vapour is a feedback which amplifies the existing global warming. There can be negative feedbacks, which reduce the effect of global warming or may slow it down or even reverse it. The main negative feedback is thought to be that as the earth gets hotter so it emits more energy, relatively speaking.