Ruthless Comment

So, well done, Ruth. The Commons will rue this vote, perhaps sooner than they might expect, as the British public cool on climate change and the climate itself cools.

Alabama cold snap ties low temperature record « Aftermath News

TUSCALOOSA | The big chill that Tuscaloosa experienced Tuesday tied the record for the lowest Oct. 28 temperature ever recorded in the city.

A new front in the battle against climate change opens, slowly

In a recent interview, a Jordan-based environmentalist said that Masdar, a planned “carbon-neutral” city in the United Arab Emirates, is more about publicity than about helping the environment. The proposed car-free enclave in Abu Dhabi, slated for completion in 2016, envisions electric vehicles ferrying 40,000 commuters and providing homes for another 50,000 residents in a 2.5-square-mile space, with wind, solar and geothermal energy turning on the lights.

“It’s too much money for too few people. We could spend the same billions to build large solar factories,” said Munqeth Mehyar, the chairman of Friends of the Earth Middle East. “Some good may come from it, but the whole thing is very controversial.”