In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

In 2009 she presented the Leslie Oliver Oration at Queen's Hospital.

In April 2009 it was revealed that Eileen Grimshaw's father, Colin had slept with Eileen's old classmate, Paula Carp while she was still at school, and that Paula's daughter, Julie was in fact also Colin's daughter.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

On February 2, 2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode " Smoke Gets In Your CSI's ".

On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón in Mexico, to help raise funds to treat cancer and children rehabilitation.

On 7 January 2009 CNN Travel broadcasted a segment called " MyCity_MyLife " featuring Nina Persson taking the camera to some of the sites in Malmö that she enjoys.

* The Boston Globe reported on October 5, 2009, that the newly announced Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was asked if she had expected to win the honor.

In March 2009 she praised President Barack Obama for reversing the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

When she was made a life peer in 2009, they became one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right.

In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying " Where is My Vote?

Also in 2009, she appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

England players donated all their pay for international matches to charity causes via the Team England Footballers Charity, which in 2009 was raising awareness about bowel cancer.

Between 2008 and 2009, South Korea donated economic aid of $ 1. 7 billion to countries other than North Korea.

During the rescue efforts after Typhoon Ondoy ( Ketsana ) in 2009, Hormel Foods donated over 30, 000 pounds of Spam to the Philippine National Red Cross.

As previously promised by UP, the D & RGW 5371 was donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden's Union Station on August 17, 2009, and will reside in the Eccles Rail Center at the south end of the building.

With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.

The 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was a Norway Spruce donated from a private residence in Easton.

In 2009, the Dickman family donated the land where the new Ruskin Campus of the Hillsborough Community College was erected, across the street from the Lennard High School.

In 2003, he released Second Face, followed by the 2007 album Coming Home And also the 2009 album ' Stronger: Remember Betty ' which is in memory of his late mother and all proceeds are being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

In 2009 one of the founder members, Tony Pilson, donated a collection of over two and a half thousand buttons dating from the 14th to the late 19th century, which he had collected along the Thames foreshore.

The shelter is named Elena after Italian climber Elena Senin, who died in January of 2009 shortly after reaching the summit, and whose family donated the shelter.

* In 2009, Raytheon developed the US STEM ( science, technology, engineering and math ) Education Model and donated it to the Business-Higher Education Forum ( BHEF ) ( Also see STEM fields.

Work was underway as of 2009 on the Red Skelton Gallery and Education Center that will house Skelton memorabilia donated by the comedian's family.

In 2009, Andy Warhol's painting Small Crushed Campbell ’ s Soup Can ( Beef Noodle ) ( 1962 ) as well as group of the artist's Brillo Boxes were donated by the estate of Robert Shapazian, the founding director of Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.

On March 5, 2009, the new Anatomy Memorial was opened in group 26, which is the graveyard of the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Vienna and for the people who donated their bodies to science.

A replica of The Rose Theatre was featured in the film Shakespeare in Love and after 10 years in storage was donated by Dame Judi Dench to the British Shakespeare Company, who were planning to rebuild it in the north of England, although the plans have not progressed any further since they were announced in 2009.

In 2009, she donated the short story Dog Days to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project comprising four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

The Windsor Star has reported on March 20, 2003 that Windsor, Ontario intended to have a 2-1-1 service up by 2009, as the Provincial Government allocated $ 311, 000 to start it up, with much of the money being donated by the United Way of Canada, but had a set time limit on how long those funds would be available.

In 2009, he donated the short story " Suddenly Dr Cox " to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Munson's locker in the New York Yankees Museum, 2009. The locker that Munson used, along with a bronzed set of his catching equipment, was donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 2009 the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, burial site of Pico and his wife, received a private 1873 photograph of Pio Pico donated by a descendant of the Temple family. Compared with the 1858 image ( above and to the left ) Pico at age 72 now shows a generous beard, full eyebrows, symmetrical light reflection on his eyes and less prominence of his acromegalic features.

The 10-foot-long Oar was donated anonymously to the University of Florida in 2009, and has opposing sides carved with symbols and logos from each school.

In 2009, UNC Charlotte received the largest single donation from a private source, when The Leon Levine Family Foundation donated $ 9. 3 million to the university to form the Levine Scholars program.

In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph revealed he had tried to reclaim, as an expense, the £ 5 that an assistant had donated during a service at Stockton Parish Church to commemorate the Battle of Britain.

For example, after the fund drive in the fourth quarter of 2009, Skinner announced that a total of $ 1, 855 had been donated to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Modest Needs ( helping low-income workers ), Treehouse for Kids ( aiding children in foster care ), the Remote Area Medical Foundation ( providing medical services in remote areas ), America's Vet Dogs ( providing service dogs to veterans ), and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

In February 2009, David Rumsey announced that the entire collection would be donated to Stanford University, including 150, 000 maps and their digital images, plus the davidrumsey. com web site ( where the images are publicly posted on-line ), as well as the database used to track the images.