To do their part to combat so-called Global Warming, the blue state of Maine - whose border with Canada is twice as long as the border with the U.S. - is adopting their own version of the Kyoto Protocol. The Portland Press Herald reports that potential changes include "the sale of more fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient appliances, requirements for more energy-efficient construction and the use of more renewable power sources that don't pollute the air"

Maine's Legislature has already committed to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010, and 10 percent below that by 2020...

Proposals include measures to fight sprawling development, a trend that leads to more automobile travel and pollution, and to promote forestry practices to maintain trees, which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Most proposals would increase energy efficiency and, as a result, reduce carbon-dioxide pollution.

Meanwhile, scientists at the University of Manchester (UK) are studying ways to use sea salt to make England even more cloudy.

Professor Choularton, said: 'What our simulation shows is that if you artificially inject sea salt into clouds it not only increases the amount of heat which is reflected back into space, creating a cooling effect, but it also inhibits the formation of drizzle, which means the clouds last longer, more heat is reflected, and the cooling effect lasts longer.'

I wonder what we'll all drink when it's raining salt water.