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Launched at the Royal Society, thirteen industry participants, three government departments and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to share knowledge and expertise in an effort to evaluate the potential for hydrogen as a fuel for so-called "Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles" in the UK before developing an action plan for an anticipated roll-out to consumers in 2014/15.

The UK's first hydrogen refuelling station has been opened in ... Swindon. Hmmm.

The press release describes it as a "collaborative" effort between the British Oxygen Company, Forward Swindon economic initiative and Honda, who's absolutely brillaint FCX fuel cell powered family saloon has been featured within the pages of the UK Column a number of times.

Honda is hoping that the station will serve as an example of the public-private-partnerships necessary to rollout the necessary infrastructure to support their hydrogen cars nationwide.

Following the failure to reach binding Treaty agreements amongst the Nations attending the Cop 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in November 2009 UK Column readers have probably already noted that media coverage of the 2010 COP 16 Conference in Cancun, Mexico was surprisingly low key. In fact the Wikileaks affair and the tuition fees protests might be viewed as yet another deliberate media attempt at public distraction.

In June 2010 Lord Hannay, United Nations UK Association Chairman conceded that

Chinese-based Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment has proposed the creation of a road-straddling bus that cars can drive under. The mega bus would have the capability of carrying 1200-1400 riders at a time. Passengers will be able to enter and exit the bus using terminals which span the road allowing for traffic to continue under the bus while it is stopped. Another option is to have passengers enter the bus using a built-in ladder.

Along side co-author Richard Tren, an economist from South Africa and chairman of Africa Fighting Malaria, Roberts stated that "millions have died" and "severe and greivous harm" because of the irrational attacks on DDT. He emphasised that anti-DDT groups have to be held accountable for the harm, that we have to recind the World Health Organisation resolution that stopped DDT use in 1997, and we have to remove authority over public health malaria decisions from organizations that prioritise "environmental" protection over protecting public health.

Wikipedia, the notorious online encyclopedia, which features the likes of Chip Berlet among its "editors," has been caught in the center of the climategate swindle. According to a report by Lawrence Solomon published in the National Post of Canada, a Wikipedia editor and UK Green Party activist named William Connolley, doctored literally thousands of entries, to conceal the fact that, during the Medieval period, there was a global warming spell, following the Little Ice Age.