Changing YouTube language

Whenever I open YouTube in Internet Explorer (IE) 8, the home page appears in the Hindi language, mixed with English. I did a bit of search on the Internet, which did not give any solutions. I am using Vista, but when I use Windows XP to open the same site, everything is fine.

So when I open YouTubein IE 8, it looks like the following image:

To view the pages in English, I need to change the language. For this, I scroll down the page, as shown in the following image:

I will then click on the last item on the selected box. The item in Hindi means Show Languages. On clicking, I will get a list of languages as shown in the following image:


I click on English UK. The site home page refreshes automatically and shows the page in the language I chose, as shown in the following image:


Tip: If you have any other browser installed on your PC, open the You Tube site with it. When I open You Tube with FireFox, I do not get this error.

How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic

Ben Goldacre, whose blog I like very much, points to an exciting link on how to "deal' with climate change scceptics. It is a "...a handy one-stop shop for all the material you should need to rebut the more common anti-global warming science arguments constantly echoed accross the internet..."

Click How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic

Copenhagen and common editorial

A few interesting links on the Copenhagen Climate summit:

It was a great gesture to see 16 newspapers publishing a common editorial on climate change. As expected, only The Hindu daily from India published the editorial.

Common editorial on Copenhagen

The Hindu link: http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/07/stories/2009120757400100.htm

The Guardian link on Copenhagen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/04/copenhagen-climate-change-conference-liveblog

Climate change through cycle
http://rideplanetearth.org/