Windfarm plans thrown out [National Wind Watch]

Campaigners are jubilant after controversial plans to build a windfarm in the south Norfolk village of Hempnall were unanimously refused.

More than 100 local people packed into the chamber at South Norfolk Council’s headquarters in Long Stratton to listen to the debate over plans by renewable energy company Enertrag UK to build seven 125m high turbines on land at Bussey’s Loke.

Tom Friedman still guzzling Gore's Kool-Aid

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day.

We’ve charged their future on our Visa cards. We’ve added so many greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, for our generation’s growth, that our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy. And now our leaders are telling them the way out is “offshore drilling” for more climate-changing fossil fuels.

Madness. Sheer madness.

Radioactive Communist Zombies: Stuck in the Ice (that isn't there)

Remember back in June when it was being said that there'd be no ice at the North Pole? The No-Ice Hype was that "for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year."

Well, don't tell that to three ships that just got stuck in the ice near Alaska...

More on Gore's houseboat

When they start believing in global warming, I might start believing in global warming.