The Global Warming Myth: Your Weekly Round-Up for December 26th, 2008 | Skeptics Global Warming

In the absence of my usual weekly round-up contributor, The Daily Bayonet, I will once again attempt to take the reins and guide all of you through the week-that-was in global warming mythology.

Electric cars coming "soon" to a road near you - San Jose Mercury News

...AC Propulsion will continue with another project, making its eBox. That car is a converted Scion xB with the engine and gas tank removed and batteries and electric motors installed.

The conversion costs $55,000, which might explain why only 12 have been made so far. (Buyers also have to buy a gasoline Scion xB, which costs $14,000 to $15,000.)

Storm stalls Portland trash haulers

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Trash is piling up around Pioneer Courthouse Square, businesses and residences across Portland metro area because the past week's record snowfall prevented garbage haulers from making pickups.

Portland's solid waste and recycling program manager, Bruce Walker, says the city has 23 garbage haulers and virtually none has picked up trash this week.

Letter: Man-made global warming?

In 1794, British explorer, Captain George Vancouver, while charting the coast of what is now Alaska, discovered a huge wall of ice, a glacier, blocking the mouth of a bay in a place he called "Icy Strait."

Eighty-five years later in 1879, American naturalist John Muir came to Alaska looking for the huge wall of ice described by Vancouver. Arriving at "Icy Strait", Muir found only open water. Determined to find the huge wall of ice, Muir traveled 50 miles into the bay, now known as Glacier Bay, before he found Vancouver's wall of ice. The glacier had melted back a total of 50 miles during the previous 85 years.

I wonder how the "man-made climate change" believers would explain the global warming necessary to melt the glacier? Might the melting of the glacier be the result of a naturally occurring climate fluctuation or would they blame the melting on the Eskimos for having too many smoky fires?