divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/29505?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+CBI+calls+for+incentives+to+protect+climatech=Environmentc3=The+Guardianc4=Climate+change+%28Environment%29%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CBusiness%2CPoliticsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Livingc6=Terry+Macalisterc7=2008_12_03c8=1127770c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Climate+changec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FClimate+change" width="1" height="1" //divpThe CBI warned yesterday that government would not meet its ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions unless it introduced bolder policies including new financial incentives, but said the global economic crisis was no reason for either side to slam the brakes on./ppRichard Lambert, the director-general of the main employers' body, said he supported a ministerial drive to tackle climate change and cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 but the right framework for investment needed to be in place if the private sector was to develop the necessary technologies./pp"We must not let the global economic crisis become an excuse for inaction on climate change. Now more than ever, we need to secure a binding EU climate change deal, or the opportunity to make the transition to a low-carbon economy will slip through our fingers," he added./ppThe government had made a promising start by setting up a new Department for Energy and Climate Change plus creating a new planning act. But 300 wind farms still awaited planning approvals, companies needed incentives to cut non-carbon emissions and further financial help was needed to speed-up the insulation of homes, Lambert said at a special climate change conference organised by the CBI and attended by Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary./ppMiliband praised Lambert and other business leaders for setting the pace on green initiatives. Britain would continue to lead the way on climate change and he insisted it was not the time now for the European Union to row back on previous commitments when it met to discuss climate change at Poznan in Poland next week./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climatechange"Climate change/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carbonemissions"Carbon emissions/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aFhjxzbCvXYlG9rSTLPZeBAfcM8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aFhjxzbCvXYlG9rSTLPZeBAfcM8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Hundreds of people are furious because the Lapland New Forest, a winter wonderland theme park near Dorset, England , wasn't what they were promised when they bought tickets. According to the BBC, the Lapland New Forest Web site (currently down) advertised the place as a "magical scene" featuring a snowy setting of log cabins, a nativity scene, huskies, and a "bustling" Christmas marketplace. Judging by the photos on the BBC News site, it was actually a dump. From the BBC News: April Chantler, of Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, described the park as "hell". "The huskies were chained up in a pen howling, yapping and generally looking thin and unhappy. "The two reindeer were obviously not enjoying their surroundings and the 'log cabins' were a few green painted sheds with more or less nothing in them." Grace Tyrrell, of Fareham, Hampshire, said there were many health and safety issues and that the toilets were "full to the seat" leaving her six-year-old daughter "disgusted". "The entire day was a joke, and I know everyone else thought so," she said. "The nativity scene (photo left) was a picture on a painted wall which was viewed from a distance and which had everyone we met laughing." "Hundreds slam Lapland Park 'scam'" (Thanks, Joel Johnson!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a2e6ecc71d4f9c6153d5ea7b13b8f7e2p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a2e6ecc71d4f9c6153d5ea7b13b8f7e2p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a2e6ecc71d4f9c6153d5ea7b13b8f7e2" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/56002?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Conservatives+release+video+of+police+searching+Damian+Green%27s+officech=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Damian+Green%2CConservativesc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CUnclassifed+Contributorsc6=Andrew+Sparrowc7=2008_12_02c8=1127656c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=blogc13=c14=Politics+blogh2=GU%2FPolitics%2Fblog%2FPolitics+blog" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Conservatives have a href="http://www.conservatives.com/Video/Webcameron.aspx"just released some video/a of the police searching Damian Green's office in the House of Commons. The footage doesn't amount to very much. It shows Andrew Mackay, David Cameron's senior parliamentary adviser, challenging the police in Green's office (and, apparently, beating a pretty swift retreat when they ask him to turn the camera off) and most of the clip shows Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, talking about the affair. /ppGrieve says the pictures show "a dark day for democracy". He's been accused of going over the top. Still, on the day before MPs slam the door on Black Rod before the Queen's Speech in memory of what happened when King Charles I sent the heavies into the Commons chamber, the release of this video is going to turn the temperature up even higher./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/damian-green"Damian Green/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/conservatives"Conservatives/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VjM4RkEEoSFRgfGcd5jj6pHdM48/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VjM4RkEEoSFRgfGcd5jj6pHdM48/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Silly us X-Files fans trying to rationalize why The X-Files: I Want to Believe crashed and burned so badly this summer. It was too thoughtful! Too character-driven! Too focused on giving fans emotional closure, and not enough on slam-bang summer excitement! Long-time franchise producer Frank Spotnitz has a much easier and quicker answer: It was The Dark Knight's fault.

His theory goes thus: The X-Files opened a week after The Dark Knight broke all sorts of records and began its domination of the summer box office. What's more, the dark and brooding film was similar in tone to the caped juggernaut, and not the sort of counterprogramming that might nonetheless have had a chance in its wake. And so you get $21 million domestic.

Look, I'm probably as big a fan of I Want to Believe as you'll find around these parts; for fans of the show it was a lovely, moving conclusion. For fans of the show. The commercial problem with the film wasn't that it was too dark or that it followed The Dark Knight, but that it was too small, and its appeal too narrow. A bigger, flashier X-Files, with more explosions and flying saucers, would have done better, Batman notwithstanding. As it stood, people who didn't grow up on Mulder and Scully didn't see a reason to go. And -- speaking, again, as someone who loves the film -- they probably made the right choice. There wasn't much there for them.

Oh, and as to the possibility of another film that Spotnitz vaguely suggests: no thank you. This was a graceful, satisfying finale.

[via Movie City News]

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