“Mr Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying.”

Rush Limbaugh makes a rather unpleasant suggestion to New York Times environment writer Andrew Revkin (Media Matters).

“This might be funny, in a sad way, if it weren’t for the fact that my mailbox is already heaped with hate mail. And of course there’s the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, could be blunted without a single draconian measure, many experts say, simply by providing access to family planning for millions of women who already want it, but can’t get it — whether or not someone gets a carbon credit in the process.”

Revkin responds.

“I think there is a big difference between demonstrating effectiveness in a rabbit and being able to do this in a larger animal or a human.”

Tony Rutherford, chairman of the British Fertility Society, comments on new research on womb transplants (BBC).

“The Russians have accumulated something like five billion units. We have a big problem of hot air in the system.”

An unnamed diplomat comments on Russia’s stockpile of carbon credits (Euractiv).